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Answer to Michael's questions Michael is Alex's cousin who is serving a service mission and was with us over Labor day weekend and had a lot of questions for Alex.
1.What time do you get up? 6:30 AM
2.How are you eating? we get fed by members for dinner and we are on our own for lunch and breakfast.
3.How is your ipad after it got wet? Well, my iPad has half a screen that works, so I am getting that fixed
Tuesday-
We just went and tried to go visit some people. The highlight of this day was dinner. We went to this guy’s house and he is Jamaican. He wants everyone to experience a foreign mission so he makes food from Jamaica. He made us chicken wings and green bananas. It sounds really weird, but instead, it was one of the top five meals I have ever had. It was so good. The chicken was cooked to perfection. He is a professional cook. So he knows how to make anything. He loves cooking so he goes all out. It was awesome. We really didn't have an exciting day, other than the wonderful food.
Wednesday-
We taught someone who only believes in the Bible. He was willing to talk to us but we may not see him again. Then we taught this guy named Tim. Tim is completely bedridden. He has a feeding tube and a breathing tube. He is very open to meeting with us again. We are not sure how to proceed in the future with him. He is learning from us but he hasn't done any of the commitments we left him with. Then after him we taught Buddy and Crystal. We taught them about tithing, and follow the prophets and other small commandments. Buddy FINALLY read the scriptures. Wow! So pumped for that! He is one that has researched and stuff like that. He’s moving along so good.
Thursday-
We went on exchanges with the DL (district leader, a group of missionaries makes up a district). I went with the DL to his area. He is over the YSA (Young Single Adult group) and another family. We went out and tried to visit some of his potential investigators called potentials. Then we taught this guy who was high. Seriously he was tripping. We taught him about prophets and he feels that he is one because birds follow him. He would be a way good person to teach if he wasn't on drugs. That is basically all that happened today.
Friday-
We taught a less active member. She has some major word of wisdom problems in her life. She was on some anti depressants for way longer then she needed to be so it messed up the chemicals in her brain. She hit a huge low and then quit the pills. Then she also quit everything else at the same time. So as good as that is, it was bad for the brain. She just recently accepted the missionary lessons. So we have seen the change from her being a someone who isn't really wanting to change- to someone who is doing all she can to change. She said we have been an answer to her prayers. Which is so cool. Then later that day we taught Buddy and Crystal. We had basically the last lesson with them. Which is sad because they are moving to another place come the middle of this month. So we don’t technically get the baptism, but we are counting one of them as ours. We will definitely go to it. We are helping them move on Saturday.
Saturday-
We had a long day of tracting. We got a couple of new gators as well. That was sweet. We meet somebody who was golden. She was praying for truth and then we came. We taught her a brief restoration lesson and left a BOM (Book of Mormon). That is again another time we answered somebody's prayer. She doesn't know that yet but I hope we did all we could to help her. It is stuff like that that makes tracting worth it. That is why we do it. Because somewhere someone is waiting to hear what we have to say but in order to get there we have to go through countless numbers who aren't.
Sunday-
We had some more knocking to do. That is basically what we did. After church we knocked some more doors.
Elder Astle again signed with a fist bump and sunglasses smiley face emojis.
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| Again, his captions didn't come through, so we think this is his yummy dinner he described |
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