The Pennsylvania Ramble!

So this week was an interesting week!

We got lots of phone calls asking for some last minute service. One
phone call was from a member that is in another ward she was living
with a less-active in our ward and the less-active moved out a while
ago but said that if she was given the money she would still pay the
rent for the member. Well long story short rent was never paid. Our
less-active can't be found and this member called us and asked if we
could come and help her get the essentials out of the house before
they come and lock the door. She we ran over and had to hurry up and
get essentials out to her car. So that was a very interesting
experience. She was heated! Haha she was greatful we were able to come
help.

So a PA Ramble is famous in this mission. It is when a Pennsylvanian
goes off topic on some rant for hours in a lesson. Because the people
here in PA love to talk whenever they get the chance. So we visited a
guy named Joseph he is an investigator and dang! I'm pretty sure me
and elder Holley got 3 words in at the beginning and then he went
off!! We sat there for an hour and a half listening to him talk about
politics and video games and all kinds of crap! You might think I'm
exaggerating but no! Literally we sat down with him at 7:30pm and I
finally stopped him at 9:00pm because we needed to catch a bus to get
home on time! We had 3 different appointments this week where the PA
Ramble was at its worst! If it wasn't for Elder Holley I would have
fallen asleep because I was nodding a couple of times and Elder Holley
had to keep hitting me to stay awake! The PA Ramble... Enough said

So we had a great lesson with a family named the Khalils. They like to
feed us and we give service to them often. Missionaries in the past
have been visiting them and not teaching them because someone just
assumed they were eternal investigators. So when taught them a lesson
and they thanked us for the lesson they said for some reason
missionaries just came over to hangout and never talked to us and
Jesus. The said that they have missed it and appreciate us bringing it
back! They are such a great family and how such an outstanding faith
in Jesus Christ. They might take a while to work with but they are
closer to baptism then they realize.
Elder Swisher