Week 87

Hey howdy hey!  

Things are going well here.  Elder Dalton is great, we get along really well.

So we took the taxi up to Franklin for transfer's again, I Finally got my bike back after 15 months.... So that's good.  

This week we did a good bit of service which i really enjoyed,  We took the old people to Mary's Kitchen, your average trucker's diner... So that was something.  Old people are so funny.

We are teaching this part member family, The Smiths, and they are pretty sweet, Coy isn't a member but we found out last night that he even passes out Books of Mormon at work!?!?  I'm not sure what his hold up is...  He love's the church and the people but for some reason he wont come to church.  So we're gonna work with him alot this transfer probably.

Jessi is still doing pretty good, we might have to push her date back again.  We are seeing her tonight so we'll see what happens.

Other then that there's not much.

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 86

Well, transfer's is here yet again, and i'm am getting a new companion yet again... Elder Allen is leaving and going to Smyrna TN and i'm getting Elder Dalton who's apparently been out for 6 months and is another 18 year old...   So maybe i'll send a picture of me and the new guy next week.

Anywho, this last week was pretty good!  I went to Paris on Exchanges with Elder Longhurst, so that was really good. 

 

We had an easter activity thing with the ward, that was pretty cool i guess.  

Other then that though, it was mostly Elder Allen saying goodbye to the people here.

Sorry for the lame letter

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin

Week 85

Well Hello everybody!  

This week was pretty good, We had a zone meeting where there was a competition between the districts to see who had the most LA's in their teaching pools.  Well anyways, we won the competition, so we got to pick out something nasty and had all the other missionaries in the zone who lost eat it.  So we choose these gross octopus tentacle things... 

Anyways other then that we have these neighbors who just moved in next door and we started teaching them, and their younger kids just Love us.  The younger boy just had a birthday yesterday so they invited us over for his party so we stopped by for a little bit and just as we were walking over the kid was riding on his new bike and he power slid into a car!  Hahaha, it was pretty funny.  It was a parked car, so don't get all in a hissy, it's not like i'm laughing cause he got ran over.

We re-set the baptismal date with Jessi for May 10th.  She had a really cool experience about praying to be baptized.  So i think she'll for sure get baptized then!

We have this bird who's made a nest right outside our door on our porch, we call him Gregory, anyways we always find him there at night so we took a video of him that is found below.  But for some reason when I put it on the computer it made the video sideways and i don't want to find out how to fix it.  So you can fix it if you want or just watch it side ways...  Also sorry for the poorish resolution, it was taken from my iPad.  

Also, i'm going to Paris TN on Exchanges later today until Wednesday, so just pray for me that i won't get thrown up on anymore! 

Picture of me playing some billiards at an Old man's workshop.  That's Kentucky for ya!

Week 84

Hello all!

Well, this week has been interesting.  Not a lot of success.  In fact Amanda, the lady who seemed really promising dropped us after saying she prayed about the Book of Mormon and believed it to be true...  So we suspect someone else has been anti'ing her or something...

So the other day we went to this one place that a member told us to go try and tract. (She also warned us of this super crazy lady who goes by Toy)  So we get out of the car and immediately this lady comes out of her house and say's 

"Hey! are you missionaries?'

'Why yes, yes we are!'

So we found out she used to live by missionaries in the past and would talk with them a lot.  She gave us some apples (Which was nasty.. tasted like paint or something) and told us she just wanted to give us something to eat but expressly said she didn't want us to visit her and talk with her about the gospel.  Alright whatever lady...

So we knock the house across the way and talk to them for a bit, then as we are about to knock the next house the apple lady come's back out and say's

"Hey! Are ya'll hungry? i have some roast beef, come get a roast beef sandwhich!'

  And it was dinner time so we hesitantly accepted. 

Anyway she invites us in (didn't she just minutes ago so she didn't want to talk to us?) and is real creepy about the whole thing so we hurry and get back out cause we found out she was alone anyways.

Long story short, this lady was the crazy, like legitimately looney crazy, lady Toy.  And crazy she was. 

This week with the old people home we helped them make some grilled cheese sandwich's...  Old people man...  I Dominated them in sandwich making.

We also went to a Church Of Christ service after Conference on sunday.  They were alot nicer then i thought they would be.  And while the dude was preaching, one of the scriptures he read lead me to the following verse which is actually a really good pre-earth life scripture!  So there ya go!

Here's my shoe before and after!  i thought about just buying new shoes, but i only have 3 months left so i figured i'd just live with it.

While i'm sending pictures, i might as well send some more... so here ya go!

Nash Vegas!!!   I can't ever get a good picture of it, in fact most of the time i forget my camera when i go by it.

Dr. Ming Wang!  HAHAHA

IDAHO DRIVE!

Murray State Stadium

Doesn't this guy look EXACTLY like Cameron?  Maybe a little older and darker hair.

Just me and Mr. Snowman chillin'.  Haha punny

Week 83

Hey howdy!

This week was pretty good, we found some good seeming investigators, had Zone Conference, i went on exchanges with the ZL's, or Elder Carlson to be precise, which if ya'll remember he was my MTC companion!  So that was way fun.

So at Zone Conference it was all good and great and everything, but i keep my pen hooked onto my shirt under my button's because my pocket isn't big enough to fit it... Well my pen came out of the lid and i didn't find out till who know's how long later... so my shirt was ruined with red ink Everywhere on my shirt, and i only brought that shirt for the exchange that was happening right after zone-con.  So i had to buy a new one in Paducah.  Then the next day while i'm still in paducah, just barely got my new shirt and a recent convert called and asked if he could take us out for dinner.  Sweet!  So we find out he just picked up his kids and he also just got a brand new puppy for his daughter...  I'm sitting in the back next to this little girl and her new puppy while Elder Carlson is up front.  So we go to this place called Catfish Kitchen a few miles outside of town,  and everyone knows i don't like fish... Well luckily they also had some chicken tenders.  But the Recent Convert guy, James, wants us to experience Kentucky so he orders some frog legs for us to eat as well....  Shoot dang, it was nasty.  but i ate half of it and took the other half home.   

So after dinner we get to the car to find that the puppy pooped all over the seat, Luckily it wasn't my seat, Haha, but James was a champ about it so he just cleaned it up and off we go with me in back next to the girl again.  About 1 minute away from our car this little girl kinda looks at me and say's 

"I don't feel so good" and grabs a jacket and puts it over her mouth.  

So i'm thinking to myself 'Nah, she's just messin' with me."

Then she starts to look real queasy and i think that stuff's about to get real.  She's still looking in my direction!!!  so i try my darnedest to get her to look the other way at her brother instead of me and then it happens...  Projectile vomit all over, but luckily she looked more straight ahead at that second so i was able to nimbly avoid almost all of it.   Round 2! A lot more projectile vomit comes and get's all over my shoes and somehow it cover's my right butt cheek too...  She also got throw up all over her puppy the first time and before i could get out of the car when we got to Our car, the dog somehow got behind me on the seat and then jumped on my shoulder and then got stuck in between my back and the seat. 

And there you have it...  the story of how i lost an entire outfit on a single exchange.

Oh and later that night we get home and we find the most random thing crawling by our door...   A Craw-dad!?!?!  The heck?!  there isn't even water anywhere near their apartments! 

Well, that'll be all for this week, sorry for the long story that took up the whole letter :)

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin 

Week 82

Hey Howdy!

This week was pretty good, We've done alot more walking this week due to low miles for our car, but it's good with the somewhat decent weather.  So as a result we've talked to alot of new people.  Several of which this week have laughed because of our message, Elder Allen doesn't like that very much.  But they'll be judged for how the accept of reject the books given us from God.  

On thursday, we go to the old folks home and do some service there every week... And man, old people are pretty funny...  But at the same time old people creep me out.  This thursday we get to play Uno with them :) i'm going to DOMINATE!!! My skill and prowess at uno is unmatched, these oldies won't know what hit 'em.

So We had this Dessert Auction thing for a fundraiser for the youth here.  It was pretty fun, a few people gave us some money to use in the auction, we just pocketed it.      Haha nah jk...  But the pie we got we gave to our neighbor who just moved in.  So hopefully that'll soften their hearts enough to listen to our message.

So like i said last week, we both had to give talk's yesterday, it was like a missionary Sunday or something, so we (as well as one other person) gave talk's about Conversion, such as conversion stories and just about conversion in general.  Well the first person told her conversion story and it took like 30 minutes or more, so by the time she was done there was 10 minutes left of Sacrament meeting, and i was the last speaker.  So Elder Allen goes up give's his talk for 10 minutes, Then we had a musical number that probably lasted like 5 minutes, so by the time it was my turn all the time was gone, i half expected them to just tell me not to give my talk.  But i got up there and said i had a pretty lengthy talk prepared, Because i did... I had like a 20 minute talk prepared.  So i told everybody to just buckle up...  then i was like "nah, just joking' and said a quote from PMG and gave a real short testimony.   It was good though.

Welp, that's all for now

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin