Ok ok, my life really wasn't in any danger this week. My area is on a hill so we didn't experience any flooding at all. But we did experience the rain....oh the rain. I now know what it feels like to be serving in Seattle or England. The rain doesn't stop. If it's not pouring, it is misting. Fortunately it is suppose to stop this week. Actually it is quite sunny outside right now. It has been a super hilarious experience tracting in the rain. Especially with Sister Gregerson. She loves being in the rain! She didn't buy a rain coat for the mission she also didn't buy a jacket with a hood. (Crazy Californians) So she basically looks like a drowning little mouse and people feel so bad for us they actually let us in!!! No joke.
So Speaking of serving in England, I know I mentioned that earlier in the email but I am referring back to it now, we met a man who was born and raised in England! He is 92 years old and served in the 2nd WORLD WAR!!! His name is Harry or Larry. He said we could pick which one we call him. (???? I know haha) He told us his whole life story and said that since he is lonely he demands that we come back every week and visit him. haha We found out that he has been taught by the missionaries before. He had 3 book of Mormons in his house and a whole stack of commissary. All of the old cheesy Mormon video's he has, the pamphlets, drawings of the plan of salvation. You name it, he has it. I guess if we ever run low on our supplies we can make a quick trip to his house. It's really interesting because he has read the entire book of Mormon and he loves it. He knows it is true and he actually likes it better than the bible. But he doesn't feel the need to be baptized. haha We will have to work on that.
He had the COOLEST stories. He talked about how he use to fly airplanes for the British air force. He talked about this time where Heavenly Father protected him from Areal bombs when he was on the ground. He talked about Flying around in France to help them fight off the Germans. He did all of this until his plane crashed and he messed up his leg super bad. All under the age of 19!! He said he spent 7 months in the Hospital and every single Sunday for 7 months his girlfriend (who later became his wife) would take a 4 hour trip to visit him. He said he would beg her every week not to make the trip because every day, all day long England was getting bombed by the Germans. She could have easily died every time she made that trip. But nothing stopped her. She never missed one Sunday. It was so precious! After that story he said, (imagine this in an old man's British accent.) "Aw she loved me, and I loved her....still do. I keep asking the good lord if he will give me the key to pass on from this life so I can be reunited with my sweetheart, but it is not my time to go." SO cute. I wanted to cry. Wow, that really was true love right there. It was like a movie.
When we got up to leave he said he wanted to show us a picture of his wife. We were super excited to see it so we said sure! Unfortunately we didn't know that agreeing to see one picture meant we signed up to see every.single.picture.in.his.entire.house. So for the next 30 minutes we followed this little old British man behind his walker to see every child, grandchild, and great grandchild, friend and neighbor's picture haha. He even took us to a room that didn't have very good lighting and he pulled out a flashlight out of his pocket and turned it on and shined it on each picture and explained who was in it. The look on sister gregerson's face was PRICELESS!! It was so hard to control our laughter. The situation was so funny I couldn't even handle it. He also showed us a picture of George Bush, he said (yet again in his Brithish accent) "AW, this of coarse is George Bush and his very attractive wife!" I lost it at that point. I couldn't stop laughing through out the entire day because of that experience. Especially when we said a prayer in our car (we always try to pray and thank heavenly father when we find new people to visit.) I said in the prayer. "Thank you for letting us met Harry....or Larry." and that's as far as I got because Sister Gregerson and I both started laughing again. He made my week. I'm super excited to go visit him again. It breaks my heart that these amazing, and hilarious older generation of people are left alone. When I get home from my mission I'm only going to hang out with old people haha.
That's basically how our week has been. Super full of laughter. I'm super nervous about transfers because I don't think I am ready to be parted from Sister Gregerson. She seriously is the best! I will keep you all posted on the news of transfers!!! Hope everyone is having a good week and I challenge you all to find and old person and become their friend!!!
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Love Sister Jones
Pictures: Here is a picture of the dog we live with and Sister Gregerson and the crazy black sky with the sun still shining. Yeah I don't get it either.
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