Week 10

So...  Lets see, to start off the week (I mentioned to some of you
that it was raining really hard all day last monday) we had some
pretty good flooding, in fact later that day we were going with the
spanish elders to an appointment and we drove through a big ol' puddle
that was Alot deeper then it led on... We pretty much floated through
it.  It got like halfway up the car, so i'm thinking of suggesting to
the vehicle coordinator to get snorkle kits for all the cars... :)
 Oh and also that day we were in a tornado watch, and neighboring
city's were in tornado warnings... Crazy stuff.  Three funnel clouds
formed over one city.   but it was hardley windy where we were.

We had a zone meeting on wednesday and one of the senior couple elder
gave a training which was AWESOME! mind blowing really...   He has
like a masters degree in archeology,  and has studied alot about the
book of mormon and its more physical proofs.   I won't go into detail
on most of it, but he started off the training by saying that he found
some mistakes in the book of mormon... So we were all like "ummm... is
this guy really supposed to be out on a mission?"  But he was
referring to mistakes that Moroni made, not Joseph Smith... and that
it actually proves that Joseph Translated it, not made it up...  He
showed us 2 places, one in Alma 50: 32 ( i think thats where it was)
and Alma 53: 3.  Lets see if any of you can find what it is... :)

We've been teaching alot of crazy southerners this week.  The things
they say.... oh ho ho, it can get pretty funny.  this one lady once
said, and i quote,  " But what if you no can!? What if you no can?!?"
(i may have mentioned this last week, cant remember.)
But we had another run in with Roy, that crazy guy who worships the
clam shell with Jesus in it.  We were walking Thomas (who lives across
the street) home one night, and roy yells from across the street,
"Is that your car?! Is that your car right there?!'  cause there was a
car that i guess wasn't normally there at Thomas' other neighbors
house.
And we're like "Nah, were on foot today"
"Cause iv'e seen that car the past couple days and I think they're
trying to break in to that house!"
us "Oh really?"  Not really believing him at all... he is Roy afterall.
so Roy walks over with his crazy man walk and looks at the car in closer detail
" I think they are in there right now!"
were walking towards home now cause it's almost 9, so we don't really
hear what happens next.  But as we get about a quarter mile away up
the hill, We see a cop zooming by, and i'm like  '.... i bet it was
roy....." and it totally was, he called the cops on them...  It turned
out to just be the guys girlfriend...

Oops out of time

Week 9

First transfer Completed... Crazy...

This week started real slow but picked up at the end.

First for P-Day we went to the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg TN. Which was actually pretty interesting how they make it and all the processes they take to make it and stuff.   In fact its the only Jack Daniels distillery in the world, so all the Jack Daniels you see is made in that town.   And here's an interesting fact about lynchburg,  It was dusted by a 70 or an Apostle or a mission president or someone, can't remember who...  So that town was pretty much condemned because of their wickedness... But it was a sanctioned activity, So don't worry.

Tuesday Elder Freeze was Really sick and we didn't get out till like 5 that night so we didn't do a whole lot.

Then we had Dist. Mtg. on Wednesday and I got my Bike!!! YAY!  Now i can finally get some bike stories!  We had appointments with 2 people with baptismal dates, both of which canceled....... so we had to postpone it a day, but again they both canceled, and that happened everyday the rest of the week... Bah!   

Oh and we go out with Thomas a lot now, the guy who we baptized like my second week here.   And he is such a goober, he Loves to do missionary work though, cause he doesn't have a job so he just walks around town all day and talks to everyone he see's and gives them contact cards with our number and stuff on it.   He's just a goober though.  Oh yeah... one time when we were with him we were talking to a lady, and Thomas was saying how he wanted to get a job and the lady in a total southern stereotypical way says  "But what if you no can?!?! What if you no can get a job?"  Oh man... silly southerners. 

I don't want this letter to get super long so I'll end it here, but next week I'll tell you of another crazy guy who has brain damage.

Love

Elder Martin

Week 8

Holy Cow! I'm already pretty much done with the first transfer!! CRAZY! Lets see what happened this week... Ahh yes, we had exchanges again, i went to a city called Winchester. About the same size as lewisburg, but alto less ghetto. The apartment there was Quite nice too! But i think they're going to close that area, things are just too slow over there... So it was a slow couple days as you might imagine. But back in Lewisburg we had on a couple occasions, people talked to us about wanting to find a new church to go to. But alas they cant come to ours cuase we don't have a building in town and no one on that side of town has cars to go anywhere... What Lewisburg really needs is a church building, they have enough people to make a branch and there would be Tons of investigators we could get to go if we had one. Oh and we had Zone Conference this week too. Learned a lot! In fact You guys should invite anyone and everyone you know who isn't a member to do the 21 day Book of Mormon Challenge! It's where they read pray about the BofM everyday and go to church for 3 weeks, and if they do, they Will get a testimony of it and of the church. And that's a promise from our mission president... So it works. I mentioned to a couple of you that i found out when the second coming is... It's 2033. In the scriptures it talks about Jesus coming back in the beginning of the 7th seal, does it not? Well that's what i believe 2012 will be the start of the 7th seal, where God instead of trying to convince men through the spirit will convince them through natural disasters. It also says in the scriptures that the heavens will be closed for half an hour (Convincing men through the elements not the Spirit), Well half an hour in Gods time is equal to about 21 years and it says that Christ will show his face to the people once that half hour is up.... so if it starts in 2012, then it ends in 2033! And it never says that man won't ever know the Year of his coming... Only the Day and the Hour. In fact it says in D&C that it will happen in the "Year of His Redeemed"(Christ) So 2000 years after his death... being again, 2033! And that is my reasonings... But i am out of time, so goodbye Love Elder Martin

Week 7

Lets see... i don't remember exactly where i ended last time.  probably somewhere around here.  Roy, the weird fossil guy...  We get into his entry way and his house is the cleanest neatest house i've seen, especially for down here.  I think i said this last time but, its like creepy psychopathic murderer clean.   He goes deeper into his house and tells us to come in deeper, we hesitate but he calls again, so we finally go into the next room, The Living room.  Complete with creepy Psychopathic murderer nick-nacks.  Then he goes EVEN Deeper into his house, into the kitchen. Then to lighten the creepy mood, Elder Freeze asks him how long he's been in Lewisburg.....  No answer... AHHH!!! I thought he was going to show up with like a big ol' butchers knife or something.  But nah, he just washed his hands like an OCD murderer would...  Then he shows us this weird shrine in his kitchen with a sea shell with what was supposed to have a picture of Jesus in it...  Totally wasnt there.  then he showed us his weird fetus fossil thing, which was just a rock with some etchings in it.  To speed things up he showed us another fossil that i guess was supposed to prove that Another fossil was indeed a fossil of a dinosaur that was as big as a skyscraper... don't know how he figured that...   Then the rest of the night was just weird too.

Oh on tuesday or maybe it was monday or wednesday, not sure... I Gave my first blessing to Sister Floyd, that went pretty well. 

This week consisted of a LOT of walking and all of our appointments falling through, lame...   Oh and I also met a lot of happy drunks.  They are pretty funny.

We went to the Walking horse Festival, which is HUGE here and is like the world capitol for it, all sorts of famous rich Sheiks from the middle east come down with there horses and everything.  Thats Shelbyville though, which is the ward i'm in.  Lewisburg in the birth place of Fainting goats! HUZZAH! cant wait for that festival.

Cant think of anything else for now though. so bye.

Love Elder Martin