Bro. Hill to a single older lady's house and we cut down a bunch of
tress for her and did a bunch of yard work it was fun. Bro Hill is an
awesome guy that loves to talk so his conversations get pretty funny
during car rides.
So we had a district meeting on finding creative ways to find so we
decided to set up a table in the park next to Beaver Main Street and
while I talked to people Elder Gatrell would play his violin and play
hymns. It went pretty well we talked to a few people but we think we
might try it again but it was definitely different. And people
definitely saw us out there so lots of people saw us.
So we were walking in Rochester, one of our little townships, and we
went to go try a less-active lady that we know she has a non-member
boyfriend. So we walk up and these two guys are sitting on her front
porch drinking beer and chilling. We walk up and ask if one of them is
Andrew, the boyfriend, and one said that's me. He then ran inside to
get the less-active lady and she said it was too hot for her to come
outside. But Andrews friend looks at us and says "I'll listen to you
guys sit down with me and Andrew and we will talk with you guys." So
we sat down and started talking and this guy was sincerely interested.
We talked about our missions and about the restoration. He then
started to ask some questions that he was curious about and so he
looks at me and says "Ok what is your church's stand point on weed?
Because I love my weed." Hahahaha I was laughing pretty hard. So I had
him read 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. He looked at me and I said so what do
you think? And he looked back down at the scripture and back up at me
and said "so... no weed." I just was nodding my head. He thought it
was cool because I was the first guy to ever show him a scripture to
answer his question. And then he looked at my name tag and say Swisher
and he started laughing he said "THIS MUST BE OF GOD BECAUSE HE SENT
ME A MAN NAMED SWISHER TO TELL ME ABOUT WEED!" Hahahahahahaha so long
story short these two guys were so cool and they want us to come back
every week and talk with them.
So early in the week we knocked on some potentials door. We had no
info on her missionaries never really talked with her. So we decided
to see if she was interested. So we knocked and she opened up and she
is a single old lady named Loretta. She wanted us to come in but I
explained that we couldn't without someone else. So she told us to
come back in 2 days and then she asked if she could have a Book of
Mormon and gave her one and told her about it she said I will read it
and talk about it with you guys when you come back. So we came back
with a team up and she opened the door we came in and she pulled out
her Book of Mormon we had given her. And she showed us were she was at
and she had read to Ether 12!!!! She read pretty much the whole Book
of Mormon in 2 days!! I have had a hard enough time just getting
someone to read a page but she read almost the whole book! We then
taught her the restoration. She understands a little bit but I think
she is definitely prepared. She said we can stop by and visit whenever
we want.
And then on Saturday morning we helped a family move into our Ward.
And this family is a little disabled but the grandpa was so cool.
After we moved all the stuff in some of the family members needed help
unpacking so I help grandpa and he is a skilled leather worker. And
had this cool leather cowboy hat he made. And all kinds of cool
leather stuff. And he gave me two of his first projects. He gave me
this leather belt with this nice belt buckle and he also asked if I
had a gun. I told him yes but back home so he gave me a leather gun
holster he made for like an old revolver. One of those like old
fashion cowboy holsters for the hand gun with a long barrel. So I was
in heaven helping grandpa unpack. Hahaha
On Sunday after sacrament meeting this church service missionary came
up to me and said he was visiting for the day and he is a church
photographer. So he proceeded to give me some cool pictures he had
taken one is an awesome picture of the Provo City Center Temple. I'll
send it at the bottom.
That Sunday we had dinner with a man who's family is out of town and
he usually feeds the Sisters but this one time he decided to feed the
Elders since he couldn't feed the Sisters. So apparently I give the
Sister missionaries in my ward a hard time so they told this member to
mess with me. And he did! Right as I first walked into the house he
was coming off as though he hated me or that he was annoyed I was
there. I was feeling so uncomfortable it was ridiculous. And then
finally once he noticed how uncomfortable I was. He started laughing
and said the Sisters asked him to do that to me! So they got me good!
He then just started to mess with me from then on out. But he turned
out to be a really cool guy and it was a good dinner appointment. But
I think I learned my lesson to never mess with the Sisters but I will
never let them know that! Hahaha
We also had our last district meeting together so this picture
describes our district in a nut shell. Hahaha
We also had to take a picture with the Neeleys after Book of Mormon
class! They are hilarious!
Oh transfers came out and me and Elder Gatrell are both staying for another one.
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