Week 53

Well hey howdy hey ya'll!

This week has been pretty interesting,  The early part of the week was really slow and kinda lame but it did get better...

We had dinner with our next door neighbors who aren't member's so that was pretty sweet...  Which by the way, she looks alot like Christine.  Random fact.

We had our first district meeting since i've been here, and man...  hate to say it but we have a pretty lame district.

On Thursday we got a referral from a guys aunt in Washington for this guy whose wife just committed suicide last week, so we had been kinda wondering how we should approach him and stuff because he didn't know we were coming.  he wasn't there the first time we tried but he was the second time and he told us that it was still a really rough time for us to see him so he told us to leave (but in a nice way) and then he said come back in a week or two.  Apparently a lot of the churches around here have been trying to *convert* him i guess, so if he does talk to us, we have the truth and especially the fact that families are forever so of course he'll choose our church if he chooses any, so that's good i guess.

On Saturday there was a baptism for an 8 year old, so after that we tracted the neighborhood right across the street from the church before dinner, and Man oh man.... that neighborhood had the rudest people in it...  The first guy at least talked to us for a second, he was like "i know all about your church and i appreciate what you guys do, but i'm not interested" so we're like 'Oh, well what have you heard about us?"

"Enough..."

then as we are leaving we turn around and ask him if there is anyone around the area that he knows that might want to learn about the church, to which he says

"I would Never refer mormons to ANYONE!!!" 

So then i say to Lofthouse,  "Well... he obviously doesn't know much about the church at all then."
and i said it loud enough that i hope he heard it.

Then we see the Only somewhat nice person on that street and he turns out to be a ghost hunter, so that was a pretty neat conversation.

Then we get to the next house that answers and he immediately says

"I'm a deacon in my church, so you are welcome to go to the next house" and starts closing the door so we say 

"Oh yeah? what church do you go to?"

"I Said you are welcome to go to the Next House!!!!"  *SLAM*

Sheesh man!  i'm glad i'm not with his church...

Then at the next house a lady answers and says that she's fixin to cook supper, so we say the usual 'Okay, well when would be a better time where we could talk to you?"

"NEVER!!!!" *SLAM*

man...  if ever there needed to be a place that should've been dusted, that street was it.

Welp Thats all folks!

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin