Hi everyone,
It was an interesting week, and a lot happened.
On Tuesday we had district council. It was a lot of fun, my district is awesome--everyone has a great sense of humor, which is a must in my eyes. Apparently there have been some pranks involving various dangerousnj substances like vaseline, so I will have to watch my back...
After heading home from district council we had 5 lessons scheduled with various non-members, and everyyy single onee fell through tsk tsk
Wednesday when we were doing our comp study a nice old couple came up to us and gave us money for some breakfast which was super nice. Since we had already eaten we decided to use it later for dinner instead. In the early afternoon we walked around a park called Tapp (tsk tsk) park and knocked a bunch of doors where missionaries had been in contact before. It was pretty hot but luckily not too bad. We knocked on a ton of doors and a few people answered, one of which we set up an appointment to teach soon so that's nice! One of the people we talked to said they had told us they weren't interested before and that it was stalkerish that we kept contacting them to check on them. It was hard to not laugh while talking to her haha--we put a note in area book saying not to stop by for at least 6 months.
Afterward we got drinks at Wendy's and made some crazy combinations of drinks to help us cool down. Unfortunatly we had our 3 teaching appointments fall through, so we were 0/8 at this point. We did a tonn of calls instead in the evening.
On Thursday our teaching appointments finally started to happen. All 4 of our Thursday appointments worked out which was awesome. We met with an inactive member who hasn't been active for 30 years and he talked about how this world is going to dirt. We tried to help him see that coming back to church could help him, hopefully we can make some progress with him. Another of the people me met with was amazing. We had met her for the first time last week, so we taught her the Restoration and she was really awesome and open to everything. She is going to start reading the Book of Mormon and praying. She is pretty awesome and we meet with her again soon.
Okay now Friday was crazy. We did exchanges and I was with the DL. Hes a hilarious dude, and he's constantly messing around. In my area right now there are hardly any member meals right now, but once I got to Texarkana with Elder Thompson it was a different story altogether. We got fed 3 meals by members when there were only 2 meals left in the day haha--for lunch we got pizza, for dinner we ate at Jake's BBQ and it was super good and Texasy. Then at 8:30 the Elders Quorum president took us and the Sisiters out for a second dinner.
Texarkana is very different then New Boston, a much more alive town. We taught a lady the Restoration and she was really cool and seemed to believe everything we were teaching. Unfortunately her house was filled with smoke, so we had to change after that, hopefully she will come to church on Sunday though! We also talked to someone who was smoking weed but she seemed to want to meet with us sometime so we will see how that goes :)
While me and Elder Thompson were driving around looking for someone's house we parked next to a house that we thought might be the right one. As we were looking at the map in the car a guy comes sprinting towards my side of the car liquor bottle in hand. We quickly locked the car and he ran up and started tapping on my window with the liquor bottle. He talked to us through the window a bit and once he saw our Bible and stuff he gestured towards his peace tattoos and we asked him if the person we were looking for lived there. He ran back to his house (his liquor bottle flying out of his pocket as he ran) and he and a friend poked their heads out and asked us to come in even though the person we were looking for doesn't live there. Then he said that for all they knew we could be the cops but we could come in and talk about the Bible. We decided to drive off when they weren't looking cause it wasn't looking very smart to go in.
So Friday was lots of fun!
Saturday I came back to New Boston and we did a ton of stopbys. In the evening we went to a part member family birthday party so that was fun.
Today we are going fishing with our district, and right now there is lots of off-tune singing taking place in the car with 4 Elders :)
It's pretty cold today (it was 82 yesterday and it's 40 today) so we will see how fishing goes. I will attach some pictures from the week.
-Elder Nielson
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