Well honestly, I don't feel like a
whole lot happened this week, but my email will probably still be long... oh
well.
Tuesday morning Elder Grassi was
eating a bag of cheetos and it asked how tall you were in cheetos and then told
us that 21 cheetos is 3.5 feet so from there we figured 42 cheetos was 7 feet
and we concluded the ratio was that 1 cheeto was 2 inches. From there it was
pretty easy. I'm 5'10" so I knew i was 70 inches tall which made me 35
cheetos tall. We did it for all the missionaries the great bend area and just
laughed for like 10 minutes once we were done.
Things picked up for the week on
Thursday when we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders. We met them in
Ellseworth and then I went with Elder Josselyn up to Salina. As we got to
talking I asked where he was from and how long he'd been out. The basics ya
know. I kid you not, this Elder was from American Fork and he knows my older
brother. It was the craziest thing. Anyway, we spent most of the day tracting,
and we both decided to go knock these town homes. We ended up meeting like
three people which was incredible for their area. Later that night we had to
run to target with the Spanish elders serving there so they could get some
stuff. We made a stop by the electronics and they had an ipad out for display,
so naturally we went on to the voice recorder app and erased all the recordings
and then recorded our own which was just the restoration in two minutes. I
don't know why, but I thought it was pretty funny.
Once I got back to Great Bend, Elder
Grassi and I had to drive up to Hays to give a baptismal interview. We get to
this guy's house and we're like hey we're here to give the interview and he was
like um okay well I only have like 5 minutes so can you do it fast. The
interview isn't supposed to be a fast interview, but we were not about to wait
until 7pm when he had more time. Even in the five minutes you could just tell
this guy was super solid.
Saturday was a pretty wild day.
There was a wedding at the church and I won't go into too much detail, but
let's just say neither of the people getting married was very active in the
church and their friends definitely weren't members. The bishop had to keep
asking people to stop taking pictures and hooping and hollering and all sorts
of stuff. It was definitely an unorthodox wedding. Later on Saturday we were
tracting and it was getting pretty late, but we were just grindin’ and I looked
on my area book and saw an area that was pretty dry so I suggested we go over
there. I had a distinct impression to go down a certain street so we did. Right
around 9 when it was quittin time we knocked on a door and I looked at Elder
Grassi and just said This is the one Elder. The guy who opened it was pretty
chill. I asked him if he knew about the Book of Mormon and he said he'd seen
the musical. It was a good start honestly. He let us in and he just opened up right
away to us. He said that he was going through a faith crisis and he was just
looking for the truth. Little does he know we have it. Unfortunately, he's
going out of town for like two weeks so that kinda blows but we are definitely
gonna follow up on that.
Sunday's here are really weird
because if you try to go tracting it never works because no one opens the door.
And I mean no one. So normally we just visit with members. Well we went and met
with this guy Jamie who is a straight baller. Well we go knock on his door and
it opens very fast and Jamie is standing there with a knife in his hand ready
to attack us. He used to be a prison guard and apparently like two
inmates have tried to break into his house and kill him so whenever someone
knocks when he isn't expecting it, he swings it open, knife in hand. We talked
with him for a while and he told us how he trains and all that. This dude is
wild. He literally punches the bark off of trees. Unfortunately, he couldn't do
it for me then because of his health but he said he'd do it later and that I
can video it. There was one point in the conversation where this dude has a
machete in both hands and he is literally fighting himself and as he does that
he's explaining to us what is going through his head and it was soooo funny. I
wasn't about to laugh though because this guy could probably kill me a million
different ways.
Also I was buying sticky notes at a
store called Dillon's so we could leave nice notes everywhere and the lady
asked me if I had a Dillon's card, which would give me a discount, and I told
her no because I don't. Then Elder Grassi stopped me and did something that
made me lose my mind. He took out his white handbook and on the back cover
there is a bar code and he asked the lady to scan it. She did and the discount
totally worked. I was mind blown. He told me the owner of Dillon's is a member
and that you can use the bar code from the white handbook, a Book of Mormon, or
any of the pamphlets we use to teach. It was truly life changing
Well that's all I got for ya this
week. I want to leave y'all with a quote. I think it was D. Todd Christofferson
who said it, but I have no idea when. He says, "God will always love you,
but can He trust you?" I would encourage everyone to do all they can to always
have God's trust no matter what it may take. You have never sunk lower than the
light of Christ reaches. You can always repent and come unto Christ. Sometimes
it may feel like we've hit rock bottom, but guess what? Jesus lets us hit rock
bottom so that we can discover that He is the rock at the bottom.
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