Really weird and funny stuff all in
the same week!
Last Monday Elder Swann and Elder
Burbank left to go to Charlottesville which left me and Elder Gonzalez together. We had fun playing more D&D and also
seeing Joe and Junior Romaro after a crazy problem that arose. We exchanged
back and stuff like that at the end of the day.
The next day Elder Swann had to do
emailing and shopping because he had been gone so we did that. We met up with
our investigator named Donna and we basically talked to her about what she
expects from us. She said through the 3 basic lessons we taught her, she
learned to stay away from evil people. Okay. And during us teaching the Restoration
she told us that she told her husband that she was talking to Jesus more since
we have been stopping by. She also told
him that she saw him (her husband) as her brother. It just seems like she isn’t
making the connections with the gospel that we’re teaching. We had to leave after this truck came to take
their mattress away. We also got to see Robert Eshbaugh and he’s coming closer
to remembering things we teach him. Now we are going to test him with candy
involved.
We went to visit an LA named B.
Yohannes and he lives in the poorer apartments where all the Arabic people live. All of a sudden he wants us to talk to this Arabic
lady named Mariam. She lets us into her
apartment and B. Yohannes translates for us. Then Mariam brings in a Cuban
couple and another Arabic lady. It turns out that she thought that we were
welfare workers and people from JMU to help them get classes. It was weird. B. Yohannes explained to her that we were
missionaries and the other Arabic lady got really disappointed when she found
out we weren’t welfare workers. Bizarre.
One day we drove around in this rich
housing development on a hill. It was
nice! We tracted some rich apartments in
that area and the first one was a black brother who has been to medical school
so that threw me off – I didn’t expect to meet a member so quickly in that area.
Another day we spent a whole day in
Broadway to check out some apartments for other missionaries to stay in. One
was nice and in good condition and the other smelled like smoke with gross
stains all over and the doors not attached. Bad! We met a lady named Halo. We also checked up
twice on a member named B. Eshbaugh. We didn’t catch him the first time but the
second time we were able to sit down with him that day. He was so depressed and
drunk. He felt really bad about himself and we assured him that everything would
be okay and that we were there for him. Before we left I gave him a priesthood
blessing and I felt so much love and compassion from Heavenly Father and the
Savior for this man and I could feel my own love being poured out to help B.
Eshbaugh with his life and to give him happiness. We also made way with his
alcohol addiction. We asked him if we
could get rid of his alcohol and he said yes so we poured it out into the
dumpster. He gave us really long hugs and said he loved us.
Saturday was funny because at the
end of the day we had a farewell dinner for Elder Dotson at a place called the
American Indian restaurant. I only got a brownie and some drink called Luscy
which was an herbal milky drink with no alcohol. It was really funny to drink.
Sunday was good and Joe bore his
testimony. Ray Hurstler came to church
to track Elder Moon down to get his Book of Mormon back from him so I gave him
Elder Moon’s email address. It was crazy. After church, we helped B. Eshbaugh by
talking with him. We visited with Joe in the evening and found out his mom didn’t
like the baptism since she thought we testified of Joseph Smith more than Jesus
Christ and that we joked around too much, too.
Well, love you all!
Elder McClure
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