Hey people,
I had a great, spectacular week
which started with Monday. We played more D&D except with the other two
elders as well. We lost the boss fight and the person we were supposed to save
was killed so we had to walk back empty handed. But Elder Gonzalez was being
funny - when Elder Burbank’s character threw milk at a person, he came in and
says, "She did that for a reason because you’re butt ugly. You’re all butt
ugly, every one of you." Funny. We played chair soccer and in one of the
scraps I fell over and my knee was dislocated for a couple of seconds so I sat out
for a little while. I played a little bit after and even scored a point with my
bum leg. Plus Elder Zimmerman hit me in the face twice with the soccer ball one
after the other so it gave me a bloody lip. All I could do was bend over and
laugh. We got fed by the Walkers. Their
son is a less active returned missionary, so that was awkward. There was some funny conversation,
though.
Tuesday: We were going to have a
lesson with Donna, but she cancelled. We went to see Ian Benson to talk about
Preach My Gospel but he thought we were going out on splits. He was all dressed up and ready to go, but we
just talked about Preach my Gospel. I think he was a little disappointed. Later, we went to Lineweaver and there
was this guy walking around with a guitar carried like a club. I told him
he had a nice guitar and he just nodded.
We found out he was a mute although he said, “Mormons” when we gave him
a card. He asked me to play the guitar so I strummed a few chords and he took
the guitar from me and rocked out with facial expressions and all. Then he
motioned for me to help him up and it was a little hard for me because my knee
was still sore from being dislocated. When
I got him up, he pointed at my arm and said, "Poquito," which means “little”
in Spanish so I guess he thought I was a weakling. It was funny to hear that. Later
that day we taught Joe about the 10 Commandments and everything so he could be
ready for baptism. We made a funny joke about 10 Commandments with an iPad. Afterward, Elder Newkirk came to interview him
and we had to race to Robert Eshbaugh's to be in time for our appointment to
teach him. Our lesson with him was a
very simple Plan of Salvation. We then got to try the best kind of fudge
afterward and it was really good. B. Eshbaugh made it himself. And then we went
home.
Wednesday: We had district meeting
at the church. Elder Swann trained on
desire to preach the gospel and Hermana Myers trained on the same thing. We had
a district lunch at the church with the whole district so it was fun. Hermana
Olsen was quoting the Nacho Libre song “Incarnacion” with facial expressions
and everything - pretty good. We went crazy that day finding people to go to an
appointment with us so we stole Elder Zimmerman to go to Donna's to teach her
the Plan of Salvation. She literally couldn’t stay awake and it was hard to
teach her. We also saw Sister Briggs and her roommate was there. We went over
some scriptures from her class. We had a short lesson with Jessie (a recent
convert) and he wants to get the Melchizedek priesthood before he goes into
basic training. We had dinner with the Weilers and their daughter is so funny
and loud. After dinner we drove to the hospital to see Beverly Layman, an
investigator who had just had surgery.
While we were there visiting her, we found out that one of the members, Sjaan
Smith, was also in the hospital so we went to see her, too. We had to wear gloves and yellow coverings either
to protect ourselves from something or protect Sister Smith from us.
Thursday: We did weekly planning and
tried to set 3 investigators for baptism. We saw Matthew and Madison Huffman.
It had been a really long time since we had taught them because they have been
away on vacation for a month and half. It was awesome because Matthew was being
really serious about the lesson and afterward was willing to set a date on
being baptized. Madison also wants to be
baptized. We also saw Robert again and taught him the gospel and he is also ready
to be baptized! All three of them have to ask their parents if they will be
allowed to be baptized. After teaching lessons, we had dinner with the Jeppsons
and I love their kid Hunter for being all over the place and just running
rampant with craziness.
Friday: We had to help get Junior's
truck unlocked – he locked the keys in it – and B. Liskey helped. We finally
came to the conclusion to force down the window instead of prying the door
handle open. We did splits with a cool guy named Stephen Bennett. We had dinner
with the Romaros, Stephen, and Ian (a youth). We had a lot of fun but it took
two hours because Jo forgot to cook early.
Saturday: Last opportunity for the
McDonalds monopoly game so I bought a Big Mac, large fries, and a medium soda. When
my order was ready an old guy took mine instead of his own so I had to wait
even longer to get my burger. I was trying to help out Elder Newkirk because he
was missing just one sticker of each color. The best thing I won in the game was
a $10 EA sport card. Best prize yet. After lunch, we tried potentials and this
one lady named Anastasia came to the door, and when we asked for Anastasia she said,
“No Anastasia here” and wouldn’t speak English, only Russian. The awesome part of the day was Joe’s baptism that
night. One of the members was late so we waited a long time for him to come. People
gave long talks while we waited, and Joe gave an awesome long testimony of his
conversion. It was like a 2 hour long baptism, but it was so great. Afterward,
we went over to Delilah's to eat and one of the guys at the baptism backed into
our car and put a medium sized dent in it.
Sunday: Church was good and we got
to stand in the circle confirming Joe a member and giving him the Gift of the
Holy Ghost which was done by Stephen Bennett.
He was the one who gave Delilah a Book of Mormon, thus converted her and,
through her testimony, converting Joe.
Kind of a cool story! We had dinner with the Bennetts and saw Sister
Smith again in the hospital to check up on her.
Well, that’s my week. Love you all,
Elder McClure
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