I
don’t really have anything new to report.
Once again Alex didn't make it to church. But this time it was because he didn’t feel
comfortable going without a white shirt and tie, so we're gonna try and find
one for him for next week. We also had a
cool experience with him on Monday. We
had a set appt, and just before, he texted us telling us he had to run out to
do something. So I was like Darn! We won’t have time tomorrow (Tuesday) therefore
we must meet today, so we went by anyways, and he told us he only had about
half an hour. We had planned to watch
the long restoration movie with him, but obviously half and hour isn’t long
enough for that, so we chose to talk with him about what we discussed in District
Meeting earlier that day which was the Atonement. It was good, and we could definitely feel the
spirit. But eventually the half hour ran
out and we wrapped up our lesson. At
which point he asked, is that it? And we
responded, well you only had a half hour right? He thought for like 5 seconds and then said
well I can go later, so we kept on teaching and had a really great lesson with
him. It was really cool to see the
spirit touch him and see how his desire to listen and learn affected him.
Also I don’t
know if you remember the movie “Wanted”, the one with Angelina Jolie and the
curving bullets? Anyways, a few weeks
ago I dodged the talk bullet, but unfortunately it curved around and still hit
me. I spoke in church this past
Sunday. My topic was Repentance, and I
focused more on the joy we receive through repentance, and used the story found
in Alma 36 of Alma's conversion. It went
well I guess.
And yeah,
aside from that we had a funny experience tracting. We were knocking doors and this lady let us
in. Elder Colton walked into the family
room first and went to greet the man sitting on the couch and as he reached his
arm out, the man turned his head and hawked a big loogy right onto the lap of a
girl sitting on the other couch. It was
so funny. It turned out the guy has
Alzheimer's disease, so I kinda felt bad for him. And we spent the rest of the lesson somewhat
fearful of being spat on, because he supposedly does it quite often... So yeah,
that’s my funny experience for the week.
Aside from that I don't really have much to add. Have a great week, and I look forward to hearing
from you next week.
Love, Carson
