It was really cool they had like Amish sample stuff and gifts shops and cheese and meat and clothes. A guy from Nascar was touring on the way to a race or something and decided to stop at Intercourse Pennsylvania and was visiting there so he opened up the back of his trailer and backed his number 11 Fed Ex car out and started it up and it was super loud and awesome. So I got to see Amish people and a perfesssional Nascar racer and his car close up.
Anyways we got done with that party and we went to the Church with the rest of the missionaries and played soccer and then volleyball then we went to dinner at bishop humes house and had all their healthy food and then for desert we had watermelon, except this watermelon was yellow on the inside instead of red, and it was good. We then tried to see a couple more people and came back to the apartment. The sisters stopped by and asked for a blessing so we had to give them a blessing outside our apartment complex in some random yard chair we found, we figured it out.
Anyways that's it til tomorrow.
Tuesday- had district meeting this morning and I gave an instruction on adjusting to missionary life and learning to work hard, I think it went well.
After district meeting had concluded we went to subway and then back to work in the vineyard.
We stopped by Andrew again and followed up on his reading of the Book of Mormon, he needs to work, we ask him if he did and he says yes but then we ask him where in the book of Mormon he is at and he said Joshua, which isn't in the book of Mormon so, we shared the video of Jeffrey r Holland and him testifying of Joseph Smith and the book of Mormon, in one of his talks called safety for the soul.
We tried to stop by a few more people but nothing ended up working out and it started raining.
So we got a call from the sisters and they didn't want to ride their bikes home in the rain, and I don't blame them.
So we picked them up and talked and joked about the healthy food diets bishops wife makes him do and shared our experiences with going over there and eating, then we came back to the apartment and are preparing for bed.
Skipped Wednesday
Thursday- today we had plans to see a couple people in the city of Lancaster so we got all our preperation for the day done and left. The first guy is a member and he is in the Lancaster hospital and is in bad shape, we went to go see him and we about walked in his room when this lady made us put these gowns on and rubber gloves before we entered his room.
So I didn't know what expect.
Well we walked in and he started talking to us about his medical problems and then kinda abruptly ask what do we want, we told him we were the missionaries and he about lost it, because the whole time that we were standing there which was about 15 minutes he thought we were more doctors until we ask to read a scripture, he then apologized and went telling us about his mission and family life, just a super nice guy, he was trying to convert the nurse there.
After that we had a dinner and a lesson which had we picked up a new gator and then the sisters wanted a ride home and so we picked them up and headed back, then president mutumbo called me checking up on my medical reasons and kept calling me beloved, which is maybe what Mormons from the Congo always say to those instead of friends, it's kinda weird and kinda nice so I just roll with it.
Friday- a lot of our plans fell through today and we now have to stay out longer according to President mutumbo, we were suppose to be in by 9 now we are not allowed to be in until 930, it's only a half hour time but in the part of the city we were in I don't like to knock doors past 830 and it is really hard to set appointments for so late, so we kinda look like chickens with our heads cut off thinking of things to do.
Saturday-today we got up an did the morning routines then we had an appointment with a guy named Mark, so we called brother Whitlock to come with us and he did but mark didn't open the door, but you loose most and win some, with missionary work.
But we will keep bothering him because he said we could come back.
We then has dinner with the Martinez family and that was fun, it started to rain so the sisters wanted a ride back to their apartment, then we went to Strasburg and tried a few people but no success, then we ended stopping by a active members and we talked and shared a message with them.
Then we stopped and got gasoline and they made the time schedule end up so we got home exactly at 930 and so it all worked out like we're suppose to do it.
Well I get the great opportunity of talking in church tomorrow so we will see how it goes.
Sunday- got up this morning and headed to ward council after picking up the sisters, we greeted everybody at the chapel doors, we had one gator come to church which was Matthew, then we I went and sat up on the stand to give my talk, it must have went pretty well because people kept saying I like how real it was not some made up spiritual overwhelming talk, then one of the sisters gators ask if I was studying to be a public speaker or a pastor because I am good at it. I didn't try and be super funny but I think their needs to be a balance because laughter is no enemy to learning.
Anyways we had a meal right after church with the Whitlocks which was good, one of their 10 year old granddaughters was trying to jump all over us so we just insisted not a good idea, the one was trying to find elder Allred ticklish spot which she got in trouble for that one,
Oh and by the way we got our transfer doctrine early this morning and turns out I am staying in Lancaster with elder Steenblik and elder Allred is going to susquehanna, he will be missed.
I don't know about my next companion but I hear he is really cool.
Anyway I am ready for preperation day tomorrow.
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