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That knocked my socks off. The man that sold it to us bet us we wouldn't finish it. We planned on making a bet with him that he had to take a Book of Mormon if we ate it all but he disappeared and so we just ate it alone in his restaraunt... it was odd. Afterwards we walked back to the car and a woman stopped us and yelled ''Are you really the Mormons??'' in English. That was unexpected. Turns out she's missed our visits that she used to get for a while. She lives in the sisters area though so we gave them a nice referal.
This week we had absolutely zeros for our numbers until Sunday. Sunday was a good day. We had three people in church! One was the man I told you about last week I think. He's from Sri Lanka and wanted to bring like a million people to heaven with him before he dies. He told us that the reason he heard about our church was a nurse many years ago. The nurse told him about the church and he sai that he felt the spirit of God witness to him that this church is a good church and it is a path that he needs to take later in his life. ''That time is now my brothers'' is what he told us. So we're gonna see if we can get him to understand all the different parts of the church and what being a member means and stuff. He knows about tithing and the Word of Wisdom though so it should be a great time teaching him the rest. He wants to bring his ex-wife and daughter to church next Sunday. Oh boy :)
We also had a man from Ghana come. Guest class was interesting with the man from Sri Lanka going off on tangents and this man from Ghana who hadn't heard a thing about our church before just trying to listen while a member of the ward gave a very long and complicated schpeel about the scriptures and didn't pause for any questions... Probably the most frustrating half hour of my life. We took the man from Ghana to priesthood and the lesson was on ''The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood''. My mind almost exploded. This man didn't even know what the Book of Mormon was! Me and Elder Enniss just took him out of the class and got to know him and taught the first lesson in another room.
Church is stressful people! Mormons are hard to understand if you aren't a member. These people need to learn from the ground up. Just my two cents for the day. God is the author of simplicity, the devil is the author of confusion. Love that saying and it's so true! Really when we're feeling confused or overwhelmed that's not what God wants, the answers are almost always way more simple than we imagine they should be.
We're still your local neighborhood missionaries wandering around huge apartment complexes looking for people who will spend five minutes to talk about what they believe and take a quick look at what we've found.
I don't know why Elder Enniss looked so sad in that picture I promise he's a happy kid :)
It's actually going great here we have tons of people we've found... our list is growing and getting better quality too! It's been fun. I'm learning and growing by helping others do the same and I don't think I'd be the same person if I had done anything else with my life. So even when I miss people and it's hard to see everyone at home changing so much and blah blah blah I'm glad I've accomplished what I have and I hope I can do even more. I mean I have a whole stinking year left right?
Anyway. I'm sure there are stories I'm forgetting from this week. Like Wesley giving us a laptop that we aren't permitted to have so we dumped it off at a less actives house, or giving a book of mormon out to a naked guy at his door (why are they always naked?), or the part member family that wants us to start teaching them the lessons, or the Russian family that gave us a ton of Russian chocolates cause they love us, or Elder Enniss drinking a liter of Apple Cider and then realizing it was 0,8% alchohol, or helping a Turkish man repair his shower and getting offered a large frozen chicken in return.... I just don't have time to write them all! The Danes had one of their many little fancy holidays on Monday. So I'm writing now....We don't have oodles of time because I'm with my district leader on splits.
Banana splits actually :)
Love you all! I'll have more fun stories next week too :)
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