Roast Beast

Good day, 

This week was crazy, for some reason I had thing after thing come up that I had to deal with all week, so I'm glad to have some time to rest right now haha

Monday was great, we did shopping as usual, and had a lot of fun at the bins. We tried to find somewhere good to eat lunch, but all our favorites were closed. So we decided on a whim to venture into a sketchy Chinese buffet, and it turned out to be the best decision we could have made! The food wasn't amazing, but it was pretty good all things considered, and I ate lots of potstickers as usual. We drove back up Monday evening, and did some stopbys in Sarepta. Unfortunately all the addresses were fake or at least impossible to find. On our way through Springhill we felt like we should go see Tawanna, and she was sad when we walked in because it was Labor Day and she was missing out on all the festivities. We talked to her for a bit, and she slowly started cheering up, and then we learned she'd just barely read the sacrament prayers today! And it was cool because we just happened to have the sacrament supplies with us, so we gave her the sacrament too.

On Tuesday we did service and then Royce took us to "The Kitchen Table" again and we had some good food! I love the Hotwater Cornbread, and the cheesecake was amazing just like last time. In the afternoon we basically were in meetings the whole time haha--We went over to the Millers for a coordinating meeting and they had some good ideas and thoughts on activities and Callings and food and people and meetings and topics and so on and so forth. It was all good but it was wayyyy too much to address in one meeting tsk tsk, sometimes people need to realize that one thing at a time means that that one thing will actually happen. So we were talking with them for hours, and then I immediately went and met with Brother Lowther for another hour and we did Tithing and worked on some other things.

In the evening we went and taught Jacqueline and Charles, and there happened to be a new lady who was just loafing around in their carport too! (This is normal.) And then there were three. We taught them the restoration, and Sister Bahr was able to join virtually and really brought the spirit with her thoughts. We met a guy named Tydrick after that, and he's intrigued by the Book of Mormon, so that was cool too. We also taught Lois, and then Randy and Tatyana at Royce's house. Randy is interesting, he seems disinterested when we teach him, but then he will say something really insightful that shows he's listening really well. He also gives us hugs even though we've only taught him a couple times, but it's good I guess! 

Wednesday we drove with the Millers to district council, and the ZLs came too. I really like Elder Mora, one of our new ZLs! District council was good, and ended with us exploring the weird old church building with the Baptismal font on the stage. :) We ate lunch at Cottons and drove back with the Millers. Sister Miller is an unending stream of good ideas, she can go for hours and hours haha--by the time we got back we had accidentally agreed to another musical number idea, 2 more activity ideas, and another meeting. In the evening we went and talked to a nice old lady named Vivian. And boy can she TALK. She told us about every aspect of her life, and was very kind to us. It was good, but unfortunately shes pretty set in her church. I also had an hour-long training meeting with the Stake Clerk, and David asked us to help clear out the stuff in his house. We went over at 8:15 and went in and I have never seen such filth haha--everything was covered in bugs, dirt, or crusted on food. Everything was strewn accross the floor, and there were loads of paper plates with food remnants everywhere. There were roaches, and probably rats too. All the furniture was decaying too. It brought us great satisfaction to throw every last piece of junk out of that infernal place onto the curb or into the trash! I don't know how some people live like this haha

On Thursday we walked the dogs in the morning, and nothing interesting happened unfortunately. Just the same dumb dogs. Maybe there will be something interesting about them on Saturday so stay tuned :)

After lunch we were doing some studying at the food court on campus, and a guy came up to us and tried to manhandle our beliefs tsk tsk--he asked us all these questions and was trying to show us kindly how we are going to hell if we don't stop going to this false church. He had some good points so finally we got up, promptly called church headquarters, and got our records removed! So thats that.

Just joking, I don't know what he was expecting us to do haha-- bathers rarely have any logical bones in them, and they are so blinded that they can no longer see things objectively. We should have ended the conversation sooner, but there kept being holes in his reasoning that were just too tempting to pass up...

Due to the basher we got behind on everything, but we did eat at a Chinese Buffet the Millers took us too and Elder Schneider got the phone number for the one Chinese lady in town! 

That evening we taught Charles, Annette, and Dallas. Dallas is our age, and lives at a frat house kinda, except it also has several girls staying there too haha--so while talking to him there were many antics going on all around us, and everyone just seemed unfazed that we were in the midst of it all. Dallas wants to come to church which is cool! He says he will if he isn't too hungover :)) Cam also wants to come, even though he looks like he wants to look too cool for all that. 

Friday I had to take care of everything I was behind on which took about 3 hours, and then I practiced for a musical number Im doing. We also did service at the Thrift store, and in the evening the Masses drove us out to the lake to eat with their nonmember friend Betty! It was nice eating on the lake basically, and they made us ribs. They were pretty good but would have been better if their were no bones (bones are for dogs). We also taught Tatyana and Randy the rest of the lesson. They were trying to go hang out with friends but Royce told them they have to stay for a lesson with us. And to our great surprise they did! Even though they are both early 20s haha

Saturday we walked the dogs, and they are tightening down security at the shelter because the dogs have started escaping! Specifically one of the dogs, named Buck. He seems normal enough, until you realize he has the power to take off like a rocketship instead of jumping like a normal dog. It was super nice outside which was good, and despite the beautiful weather one of the dogs kept trying to stop and rest cause it was breathing so hard. 

In the evening we taught Jacqueline and Charles again, which went really well! They loved it, especially Jacqueline got really excited about it all! 

Sunday as usual was completely packed. Nothing super notable happened, everything was meetings and administrative work.

-Abe