Farmville....fun, fun, fun in the
sun!
This week has been a pick-up week
from last week and Elder Martineau's previous transfer. We’re on bikes in this
area so we get to ride around all day and have fun going fast down hills.
Wednesday was a fun day to begin
with. We had fun doing service for the library by putting some books on the
shelves and afterward we got to ride around with Elder Chappell to see some
people like less actives in the branch. We also had the opportunity to meet a
guy named Robert. He is a less active college student at Longwood and while we
were talking with him, he was getting the most drunk he could while talking
with us about how he fell away and what started that process. He was very
coherent the whole time, so it was funny.
In the end he told us he had gotten drunk to see what our reaction to it
would be and also because he hadn't gotten seriously drunk in a while. He was
drinking Everclear which is like the strongest stuff around here. It was crazy.
We also got to have dinner at the church with an awesome member and that ended
the day.
The next day we got to do service
for a member named B. Goodwin. We cleaned
out his backyard and burned old wood and moved old metal. He showed us his cool
gun collection and a bunch of Civil War bullets that he had found with his
metal detector. It’s funny that they are white instead of grey or some other
color. It was pretty cool. This week we also got to do some service for Sister
Seamster by cutting up a tree for her and carrying the logs around. We had fun with the ax chopping the limbs off
some of the trees. We also did service for this food bank with a bunch of
college kids filling up bags and setting them up for the following Saturday to
give out. We had to load a van and this
kid was calling out the number in a southern accent. It was pretty funny.
Mainly the people we taught this
week were Tina, Arlene, Mary S., and Shawn. Mary and Arlene are stubborn old
ladies sticking to their old ways. I had even asked Arlene what she would do if
she found out that this church is true and she said, “Just accept me for the
way that I am.” We have also been setting up appointments with the other
investigators.
We did find this lady when we were
tracting. She had gone inside her house
right before we knocked, so it seemed awkward but by knocking anyways we got a
return appointment for the next week so we were super excited for that.
We also had zone meeting and that
was pretty fun talking with the other Elders. One of them was actually bad
mouthing Idaho and asking me what there was to do there. He was a punk and
those elders are the worst. I don’t like punks. We had fun after the meeting
trying to see people and doing things in Farmville. It’s been fun biking except
for going up a lot of hills and having no mail.
I know I’m coming home soon, but I would really enjoy some letters! Hint, hint!
Well have fun everyone and I’ll be
more detailed next time.
Elder McClure
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