I understand very well that sickness is not fun, especially when you have important things to do. I was sick with a dry throat and congestion for around five days, I stayed in two of those days. The lessons that we taught while I was sick wasn't fun, but I know God strengthened me for those. One lesson I took some tissues to use and I was expecting a short lesson and setting another date for next week, but it took much longer, longer than my tissues lasted.... that was miserable. Luckily she was kind and offered me tissues as I struggled to teach. We ended the lesson, and set another up for the week after. The next lesson went great though, I prayed for strength and what to say, I was well equipped with tissues, and the spirit was strong. They were definitely two different sides of the spectrum.
Our week went by alright, we have 2 BCD's set for this next month, and good prospects. Not as good as some previous one's but they will be assets in the church. But a couple days ago we had a great experience. We set out of our apartment with a day well planned. We came back after 30 minutes driving around finding out all of our plans fell through, like biting cotton candy and expecting something to chew.... we sat in the apartment then searching and calling some former investigators. Some answered, some hung up after we addressed ourselves... but we ended up sitting there with no real idea what to do. I knew the last resort was tracting, so we got on our knees and prayed for guidance and clarity on where to tract and what to do. Elder Danner had the thought to see one investigator, and so we drove and found that they weren't home. I had the faint idea to get on the bikes, so off we went to grab them. After the prayer I had the prompting to go tracting just down our street, but I shrugged it off thinking that it was only because I saw an attractive girl that I wanted to run into down on it. (Don't worry my mind is focused on the work, it was an observation (: ) But we rode our bikes around town attempting to visit one more person who also wasn't home, so we rode to the street and locked our bikes. With my legs tired from the giant hill we biked, I took my time locking them up and resting. We looked and noticed a couple walking on the sidewalk towards us. We said hey, and the guy asked, "How's your mission's going?" Immediately I recognized him from when Elder $ and I were ringing the salvation bell at Walmart.
I answered, "Well, tired from riding, but it's worth it!" We found that he lived right down the street from us and that he was from Utah, just barely moved down 5 months ago. His GF is from New York, they met online. Weird combination right? But we got their number and now we are excited to call them today and set up a time to meet!
Anyway it goes on, we continue walking and knocking, but the next funny experience happened like this. We are talking to Billy Ray, and he is very long-winded and a puppy from his house wandered out the door and behind a neighboring house. I asked him if he wanted us to pick it up for him. He said," Well sure!" I think he was a little drunk. I hurried around to grab the dog and saw he trotted into the neighbor's yard past the fence. I hurried faster as the dog rounded the corner again and as I turned I saw a family sitting there staring at me.... I said excuse me as I picked up the puppy, and it started crying horribly! I promised them I wasn't torturing it and I turned and walked away feeling embarrassed. But about halfway back Elder D stopped and looked back so I did the same. The teenage girl was following us, I asked her, "Can we help you?" She told us, "You have my dog...." I probably looked foolish standing there dumbfounded. I apologized and explained that Billy wanted it back, and she told us that was her uncle and her family lived in both those houses. We continued to talk to her and she turned out to be interested in the church. In fact, she only just recently became interested in church! I thought that was pretty cool. We are going to stop by again soon.
Well hope you like my novel! My sickness is gone and I feel tons better! I'm still safe, and hyped up again to do work! Thanks for the love and emails! Talk to you next week!
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