Tracting is Fun?

This week I was asked how far away a plane was by my companion, I

answered that I didn't know, to which he responded "I'd say about 23

months for you". We had a good laugh at that one

This week has been crazy, we finally got one of our investigators to

church only to have them step outside at least 3 times to smoke.

However, the important thing is that he came so we tried not to let it

get us down.

We tracted into a guy last Saturday who was really weird but pretty

cool. When we met him we introduced ourselves and the first thing he

said was "I'm disabled, they found something in my brain and now I

have to take pills to keep me from going crazy". We didn't really know

how to respond but somehow we got him to invite us in and we began

teaching the first lesson. It was going really well until he told us

that he had short term memory loss and that he would forget everything

we taught him and wouldn't even remember that we came over. So that

was interesting.

On Thursday Eder Kopische from the 70 came and talked to us and it was

awesome. We learned a ton about how to be better missionaries. He

challenged us to prepare some questions we wanted answered before the

meeting and to come prepared to receive personal revelation. I can

honestly say that all of my questions were answered, one after the

other. He then told us that when we invite others to come to church to

have them come with a question and promise them they will receive an

answer. I can promise all of you that it works. Think of a question

and really think it out in your mind and then go to church on Sunday

with the intent to get an answer and you'll get an answer. If you

don't get one right away it will at least put you on the right path to

receiving your answer.

My first week I hated tracting, but I can say now that it is honestly

so fun. I went on exchanges with another Elder and when he knocks on

doors he tries to do a cool beat so all we did while tracting was see

who could do the better beat. It's a good way to get people to answer

the door. Plus you meet some of the coolest people out tracting. One

day this week we knocked on this door and this bigger Hispanic guy

opened the door with his bible, after we told him who we were he

walked out onto the porch and said "alright boys, let's talk about

Jesus". I thought for sure that he was going to start bashing and

trying to tear us down. But he was actually super nice and interested

in what we had to say. He was a pastor from Florida and was just

visiting family for the day but he said he would get in contact with

the missionaries in Florida when he got back.

We had someone bang on our door and tear up the picture of Jesus we

had on our door at 4 in the morning one night. At first we didn't know

who it was but we later learned that it was one of our investigators

who had gotten kicked out of his girlfriends house and was super

drunk. We still don't know how he knew where we lived but boy are we

glad the door was locked. He apologized the next day and we've been

trying to help him find a job because as of now he lives in the woods

behind a grocery store.

So far this has been one of the hardest but most rewarding experiences

of my life, I love it!!! Instead of a scripture I think everyone

should read the definition of prayer in the bible dictionary, it's

really cool.

My companion, his trainer, and me!

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