So the holiday season is super awesome, but super hard. So the rest of the year everyone says "I'm busy" and now that no one is
busy, everyone is either out of town, or super stoked that they are free
that they just want to sit around and watch tv. All of the
investigators from last transfer are out of town. So to get in to the
spirit of Christmas president has suggested that we go offer to sing Christmas songs with families while we are porting. Pretty much no one
wants to here us sing. One time I was getting tired of people not
wanting to listen to us sing, so I just said.. "ok elder, this house we
are going to straight carol"... as soon as they open the door, start
singing "Away in a Manger", so we did that. We got out the first line..
"au loin dans l'étable...." and the woman said "c'est bon, au
revoir!!!!" and slammed the door. She said "that's good, bye." It was
sooo funny but sad.
So you know how everyone says don't get into cars with people
you don't know? and you know how everyone jokes about people offering
people candy... well elder moffitt and I got kidnapped this
week. So I asked S**** where the tram line was and all
of a sudden we're talking about how he is more christian than us
because he follows the law of Moses and stuff like that and then before I knew it we were in a car with them and they shared some candy with us. They were actually pretty nice dudes. They gave us a ride back to
centreville. You cant really get mad at them cuz like they were just
tryna do some member missionary work. It was just in an aggressive and
rude way. They even gave me a coran.
Another pretty cool thing happened. We met these 2
college guys. One of then was giving me the stink eye from down the road
and I was like "wow whats this guy's deal?" and when he finally got in
speaking distance he asked if we were Mormon. He was once a foreign exchange
student in Utah and stayed at an LDS home. He said he loves them so
much. He didn't know that the church was over here. he didn't even believe
that we have a chapel. or 60 members. He is going on vacation to Asia,
and then when he gets back he said he totally wants to come to church
with us and its pretty good because both of the dudes spoke English
very well. which is good because elder moffitt is still learning french
and its nice when they can understand English too so if you have
problems you can just say it in English.
I don't know if I'll buy anything for Christmas,
because all of the sales are in January. So I'll just go all out then and by go all out I dont really mean that. I am going to get a couple
things.
This morning we played soccer with a less active member
and his friends. I pwned them like noobs but I am really really heavy
on my feet now. I'm gonna work on that.
The
ward likes me decently well. I got to give a little
testimony/introduction thing on Sunday and everyone liked it. The relief
society here gave us a huge bag of presents, but someone told me its
all chocolate. haha. That isn't good cuz I'm trying to get fit. wanna here
something horrible? last Christmas I was up to 190! Right now I am a
lil over 180. I want to get home at 175, so not very much relief society
candy for me.
so I'm having a lot of fun and feeling really good. I have been feeling God's love a lot lately and its just a really good
feeling. It fills you up.
so let me know if skype works.
Spud and I email. He's doing good. He's training a thai guy who was waiting for a visa.
I've
always thought it was a bad idea to have fish hooks that close to your
head. It's pretty cold but its
not that bad. It feels kinda nice.
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