Dear
Family,
Our
meeting with the A's was great! They have lots of similarities and differences
to the C's. One of the crazy parts at the meeting was that no one else in the
Zone plays hymns on the piano besides yours truly, so I ended up playing for
the whole meeting!! I don't know how it went, I messed up here and there but it
sounded good for the most part. :) But the rest of the meeting was good. Sister
A. told us all about their family and then President A. trained on what things
we want to continue emphasizing in the mission. Our favorite was where instead
of saying we are "Preach My Gospel" missionaries, we want to be
"Preach My Gospel by the Spirit" missionaries. It was really
good, and I'm excited, though it was sad to see the C's go. We did get to write
them letters at the meeting that the A's are going to send to them, so that was
good.
So
a couple stories for the week, on Friday Elder L. and I were on exchange in
Summer Field and we went to teach L. He was quite stubborn that he has a
relationship with God that can't be strengthened. On the even worse side, when
we first went there, L. started telling us about some visions he had, and
showing us paintings of them. Our favorite was titled "Nightmare of
Hell", and it was just that, a painting of fire and brimstone and a large and
spacious building burning. As he was describing the vision, all of a sudden I
saw something on my arm moving. I looked down and there were these little black
specs jumping around on my arm. I looked at Elder L. and mouthed "what are
they?" Just then L. looked at us and asked "did they get to
you?" Turns out his house is infested with fleas. We walked to the light
and looked at our pants, only to find 60+ fleas caught dead in the act of
climbing up our pants and arms. We spent the next 50 minutes trying to teach L. about why he did need to be baptized, all the while picking fleas off us
and drowning them in a dish of water. It was an adventure to say the
"fleast."
Elder
P. and I went on exchange on Thursday and that was really fun too! We had some
adventures and got to teach some fun lessons. Then on Saturday the 4th, we went
over to a members house who we ate with earlier in the week named the B's. The
B's are Sister B's parents from Huntersville! So the B's were there too and it
was way fun to get to see them and talk about the ward and everything. Bishop
B. said that J. has been bringing a friend to church, and that he is doing
really well. It was so fun! I will send you a picture :)
Later that day we were finding some friends and
all of a sudden we saw the B. family from Huntersville driving around house
hunting! They stopped to wave to the Elders, and we recognized each other and
had a short little chat. It was too funny! I am way excited to come back after
the mission someday and visit all the wonderful people again!
Thanks
for the emails! Hope your week is grand!
Love,
Elder
Branch
Elder ToBlessedToBeDepressed Branch
Happy 4th of July!
These 4 Elders all have their 1 year, hump day, this coming week.
They're not talking about it though.
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