Al's Well that Ends W-Al! ... I am so sorry...
May 29, 2018
We've been trying to contact this one woman, Cheryl, for the past while, and when we get to the house, her brother walks out, not looking very excited to see us. He starts out with, "You know what the problem is with you guys?"
I was not super excited about that. He then started going off about what he believed and how what we believe is wrong. We call this "Bashing" in the mission field. It's not fun. He kept trying to trap us into saying things that he could try and argue against. The Issue with people Bashing with us is that when things get contentious, the Spirit leaves the conversation, so then even if you're talking about the Bible and the words of God, it doesn't help anyone because you're too busy arguing.
However, we wanted to keep the Spirit in the conversation, so whenever he would ask us questions, we would just testify of what we did know and believe. It was great! We could feel the Spirit staying in the conversation. The man, instead of attacking our beliefs, began to testify of what he believed as well! By the end, we had been with him for an hour and a half, and we gave each other hugs! Also, he told us that he wanted us to come back, and that maybe we could come to his Bible study group some day! We can't wait to see Albert again!
Now, do you remember the crazy guy who had a ton of cars in his back yard? His name is also Al, and we've done lots of service for him over these past several weeks. Well, something happened with him, too! He came to our Book of Mormon Class! He had a lot of questions, but the other members attending were awesome! They answered his Questions, and they can't wait for him to come back!
One of our Members felt prompted to share a poem she had been carrying in her bag with him, and after she read it, Al asked where he could get the poem. This Sister stood up and said, "Well, Al, you can get it from your new friend!"
And she stood up, walked across our circle of chairs to hand him the poem! My heart died! It was so great! I'm so proud of that Sister and how she was prepared to recieve that prompting from the Spirit!
Also, a whole bunch of Missionaries got together to play sports! I only played for a little bit (apparently I am somewhat competant at Ultimate Frisbee...), but I got see Elder Tripp again! It was so nice to see my MTC Companion again. I enjoyed seeing him and just catching up with him about everything that's been going on with him! He's been having fun with teaching the people in his area, and we kept talking about how awesome it would be to be companions now that we have a (slightly) better idea of what we're doing!
This week, I also got to go on exchanges with Elder Bassett, one of my district leaders! We went to his area, and, let me tell you, IT WAS SO NICE TO DRIVE IN A CAR! Like, seriously! I love biking around and all, but I also appreciate not dying in the HEAT!
I learned a lot from Elder Bassett. He is a great example of how we should keep up with the people we teach. The more with interact with them, the more we can understand them and teach to their needs! Jesus Christ knows each of us perfectly, so we need to make the effort to learn more about these people in order to teach more like Jesus Christ.
Other Fun things:
- We had a bunch of stuff break this last week! Each one of us in our apartment had something break. My glasses broke suddenly (Disappearing Screw (now fixed)). Elder Bassett threw his keys to Elder Warnick, but missed, and plastic tops of the lock and unlock buttons flew across the parking lot. Elder Bearman's back wheel broke (Pringled, as we call it. The wheel started bending into a Pringle-like shape), and so he had to borrow a bright yellow road bike from the Mission Office lovingly named Pikachu. And then, finally, Elder Warnick's tablet slipped out of his hands, and half of the screen shattered! It was awful.
- On P-Day, we were invited to play board games with a Member named Brother Garcia. We walked in, and we were blown away. Brother Garcia had a Huge Board, and all these Cards Stacked with piles of tokens and individual Character cards laid out. We spent 5 hours of our P-Day playing Fury of Dracula, a game where you go across Europe trying to track down Dracula, played by Brother Garcia. He beat us, but it was so fun! We're trying so hard to get back playing with him again!
That's it for that week! Super Eventful, Cool people!
Elder Richardson
1) The Fury of Dracula! I think it's super cool! I think it was kind of expensive or something like that... But it was fun!
2) Mandatory Flower. It's Pwetty. (Post Mission Note: I definitely sent the same picture the week before XD)
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