Week 47!!

Monday- today we went with the zone leaders again to wally world and then to subway. After that we went to the gym and played basketball and cards both are not my strong suit.

Then we came back at 4 at like 445 I took a nap until it was time to find people and that's what we did the rest of the day. Not super eventful but there was events in the day so can't complain to much. 

Tuesday- this morning we had district meeting, it went pretty good then we had burger King after words and then I went on exchanges with elder Hadley in Ephrata PA we had a good time had 4 people stop us and question our church in a bad way one guy jolted to side of the road and stopped traffic for 10 minutes so he could deny what we were telling him.

Went and did service at a nursing home well kinda service they play a game where they each have a ball and they take turns trying to get as close to the middle as possible and all we do is give them back to them. But I'll tell you those old people are mean there was some of them punching each other and cussing at each other it was very intense didnt think they could get that vicious.

But I overall had a good night.

Wednesday- exchanged back with Lancaster and then we came Home very quickly because we had service at a place called water street Mission we basically help homeless people get their meals and then clean up their mess later we did that and it Took us a little more than 3 hours. Then a member took us to a buffet which was pretty good, we did a little service for them to then we came back and got cleaned up, and ready to go to appointments, had a pretty good rest of the day not super busy though. 

Thursday- I got to go on 2 exchanges in a row, this time the zone leaders exchanged with us because my companion and elder barneys companion had an appointment on the same day so they just went together and we and elder barney stayed in Lancaster we had a really great time the first person we visited was a guy named Andrew that I have taught twice so me and Elder barney went and taught him. We ask him to be baptized and he said yes. So Andrew is getting dunked on the 18th of August, he is super excited and I am as well because this area hasn't had a baptism in 2 and a half years so when me and elder Allred came in here we promised ourselves that we are going to get a baptism, and look at that, if you say something long enough and truly believe it with a sincere heart, then it will happen.

But if you think it will suck, well buddy then it will suck, period.

Anyways after that we went to a dinner appointment and had lasagna and green beans, pretty good stuff. 

Then we came back from the dinner and every single appointment fell through and I mean horrible, just no luck we just got pooped on, and in case your wondering not physically because that's disgusting 

But we decided to park and go walk the ghetto around the Lancaster County prison. We were walking and picked up a new investigator on his porch named louis so we kept walking and a guy was walking towards us and says I have a church but it's to far away and yours is right across from my house, so we gave him info and he says he will bring his family.

Then we saw the Spanish elders on the park and we ran over there and talked to them, we weren't talking with them for more than a minute when this young guy I think he said he was 21, anyways he said I need to speak with 2 of you, so we ask him if he spoke Spanish and he said no so the spanish elders walked away disappointed. I know life's rough being a missionary, that is seriously a struggle in areas where there is more than one set of missionaries is having to pass people on if they don't speak very much English we give them to the Spanish elders or if they are younger we give them to the YSA elder or if they are single females we give them to the sisters, very very confusing. 

So this was quite the opportunity, we sat down with this guy and he was a missionary for another church but now he is atheist, which he believes in God just doesn't acknowledge him or care about Jesus christ in a sense, confused me but we just rolled with it. And every thing we said he had a theory or paradox to every spiritual thing we say and changes it to scientific or other research.

I think he just needed go vent because we sat there for an hour and maybe Said 50 words give or take, he went on about aliens to the story of Paul, then to acid the drug FYI and related it to the warm feeling we get and how that could be the Holy Ghost tryed to make and atheists joke but neither of us got it so we just said we will come back with more answers alright and then got home at like 930 or something.

We got back and told Mission stories and some how that led into ghost stories on our mission and when we were home, then we led into a card game called seven up I think, it's seven something I know that.

Then that led to deep doctrine than it led to life after mission and then we watched the restoration video and the legacy for some weird reason and the district, mostly to make fun of it. 

Then we lost track of time and stayed up til like 1230 which back home isn't very late but it is on a mission and we won't do that again Im sure in the morning it will suck getting up. 

We have interviews with the new mission president tomorrow so just to put the cherry on the cake there. Anyways goodnight. 

Friday- so today we woke up, a good thing to do in the morning but we definitely didn't wake up as fast as usuall.

We exchanged back about 830 so pretty early, so that's cool.

Then me and elder Allred started planning after elder Christensen and elder barney left.

Then after studies and weekly planning we got on the steel horses and biked up and down for an hour to get to a single appointment. Which fell through so we biked back and I didn't crash so I was pretty impressed with myself but we came home so we would get back in time for presidents interviews because we were riding up with the sisters and their interviews start earlier so we would wait for them, they start at 3 and then ours start at 5. Well president mutumbo showed up late and all interview were pushed back 2 and a half hours. and was taking 30 to 40 minutes per person so came 9 00 and their were still 4 missionaries that hadn't been interview it was me and my Companion and then the zone leaders. And he didn't want us to break our curfew so we will have to be interviewed another time, other wise we would have been there past 10 and got home around 1030 or 1045, so good call.

Then we came home and hit the sack.

Saturday- today was decently eventful it started off with the usual study prayer and such, then we got ready and went to see a few people, then we went to the Church because one of the Ephrata elders gators is getting baptized, I am calling them gators from now on investigators is hard to type all the time.

Got that done and then we had dinner with the Martinez family again it was really good again there was a language barrier but it was better this time, I am slowly learning to make out what English words they are saying.

Then we went to a potential gator in Strasburg who is a no show, then we headed to Quarryville and taught a less active and her daughter again. The one with the ferret. And one of her daughters wants to be baptized so we are working on 2 gators getting dunked now.

See all it takes is desire to baptize converts and grow their faith but when your desire is lazy nothing grows but weeds, I'd say thistles... Because I hate them(:

After that we headed home later out of the appointment and tried to not hit any horse and buggies

Good night and sleep tight 

Sunday- got up and picked up the sisters for church had a good week, had a good amount of gators come for church,

We biked the most we have ever before today and that really took up the most the day.