HOOOOOOOOOOOOWDY!!!
Don't worry everyone! I survived another week with an Idaho driver. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew because that in itself is pretty notable for this weeks accomplishments. ;)
We had a crazy week this week. The title of this email basically sums up the lovely experiences we had haha.
Subject 1: Fiber Bars
I'd first like to start off by saying that I learned this week that Fiber bars are of the devil. No missionary in their right mind should ever come in contact with them...EVER! I'm serious stay away. I will bear my testimony on it if you need me to. I'm sure your imagination will testify to you what happened to me this week because of them.
Subject 2: Obese Cat with an anxiety disorder
I know this subject sounds crazy but we did actually run into someone who owned this very cat. Here's the story...This week we didn't get as many lessons because we spent a TON of time trying to find people. I think I told you last week that we are preparing to find as many people as possible for the new missionaries that are coming in soon for this summer. The main way we have been spending our time finding is by doing the prayer approach. We have been doing it a lot! At least for an hour every day. In doing the prayer approach I have found that it brings many more hilarious, awkward, and memorable experiences. I mean knocking on someones door and asking them if we can kneel and pray with them is awkward in itself haha. So we have plenty of funny experiences this week haha. This one was my favorite.
Saturday afternoon we were looking through our area book and saw that a potential investigator lived pretty close by. We decided to stop by and pray with her and see how she is doing. We drove up to the sketchiest apartment building I have ever set foot on in my life. It was tall, white, with chucks of stucco broken off and graffiti scattered here and there. (I've learned not to look to closely to what the graffiti says because it is usually inappropriate). We looked up the four creaky,rusty, flights of stairs, said a little prayer in our hearts, and climbed up. They kind of reminded me of an apartment building stairs that you see on a Borne Ultimatum movie. Where Jason Borne is doing sweet par core moves with bullets flying as he jumps/flips from stair case to stair case. I could even smell the weed that I'm sure was in the movie too. haha
We got to the top floor and knocked on her door. This short plump lady with chicken legs and no teeth answered the door. Turns out she was the right lady, but she has joined the catholic church and has no intention of ever coming back to our church. We asked if we could pray with her still and she said sure and invited us in. We walked into her dark, cluttered apartment and saw that she owned two cats. One probably weighed as much as our spare tire in the trunk. He was HUGE! Biggest/fattest cat I have ever seen in my life. For a second I thought it was pregnant or something but the lady said "Oh this is Leo (or something I can't remember it's name) she was like "He is a little obese but he has an anxiety disorder..." You could tell she loved this cat with all her heart. He kept trying to escape or eat sister waters for a snack i'm not sure which one but she kept saying "Don't you do that, you big Baby." She called him her little baby like five times. haha I don't think little is the correct word. I think I could feel the floor creak and rumble under its every footstep. The funniest part was when sister waters was praying it was all over her trying to get her to pet it while she was praying. She really really really doesn't like cats so she kept pushing him away with her leg while she prayed. Then.....He bit her!! I felt really bad for her because it must have hurt but sister waters did the last thing i expected her too. She kicked the cat! I could not believe she just kicked this lady's pride and joy! Thankfully it didn't cause to much ca-motion and the potential investigator didn't notice because then she probably would have sicked the cat on us and we really would have been eaten and she never would come back to the church. It took me ten minutes to compose myself after that hilarious experience. Oh man too funny!! K I better get to my last subject because time is running out.
Subject 3: Baptism
ED LUSSIER IS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh!! He is the most amazing man ever. He has been taking the discussions for 3 months and we challenged him to think about being baptized and he told us this week that he got his answer and he is going to be baptized on june 1st. We all were so happy we couldn't speak for like 5 minutes. The spirit was sooo strong. Wow, that was the best feeling in the world. It makes everything worth it. The fiber bar experiances, getting bite by cats, and working extremely long days. It's all worth it when people gain that testimony of the Savior and know of the truthfulness of the gospel. Wow. So happy.
Well I have got to go. Sorry It was pretty all over the place today. But know that I love you and I am having an extremely good and rewarding time here on my mission. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
Love sister Jones
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