Wow, let me just say
that this week has been crazy! We have met it seems like only extremes in
people. Either super nice and friendly and interested or really really not kind
of interested. One person when getting mad at his house told us "You know
what you can do? You can.." and he stomped his feet " and walk to the
next place." His stomping his feet reminded me of D&C and I think it's
Mathew where it talks about shaking the dust off of your feet of those that
reject you. Ha, ha I'm pretty sure that guy had no idea that those scriptures
existed but I just remember thinking "you know, that can be arranged, and
you probably wouldn't like it very well."
We also met some super
drunk veterans who tried to teach us about the blues and told/asked us probably
about 50 times that we needed to have grit and did we know what that was and
how it would help us. I don't think outside of the movie True Grit have I ever
heard someone use that phrase so seriously and probably never in my life so
many times. And I really wish now that I could watch that movie, or at least
listen to the music because it is amazing. Well, the new one is. Sorry John
Wayne... although technically I haven't seen that one yet so I'm sure that it
is good too. Ha, that reminds me, one of the songs that we have on one of our
CD's is called like "down to the river or something like that but it's the
one that they sing in O Brother Where Art Thou, and every time we hear it it
reminds me of it. Ha, that movie is crazy, I can't believe it took me so long
to watch the whole thing.
We did have some good
lessons and experiences this week though too. The best one we had this week was
with an investigator named Greg. We taught him the Restoration and after we
were done with asked him what he thought of it. He said "it's true, I know
it. I can feel it. I need to look into this church more." We were so
surprised but such a straightforward and positive answer that for a few seconds
we didn't even know what to say! We also had two really cool experiences when
we were out walking around. We talked to a guy who was working on his car. He
told us that he had never been to a church in his life and that he didn't
understand why bad things happened to people. Like why his son had to be born
with a disability. We told him about the church and the Book of Mormon (thank
you Elder Summers for getting me into the habit of putting the questions of the
soul in the front cover!) and how it could help answer his questions. He said
that he wanted to know more about it and gave us his number. Sadly, he lived
outside of our area, and was only visiting the house we saw him at but
seriously, I just can't believe how some people are so prepared and ready and
are seriously a fufillment of the scripture that they are kept from the truth
because they know not where to find it.
So something else
exciting that happened this week was... we got a car!!
This week we also did
some service for the Molina family and the little boy Myan told us that we
always came over to his house and that he wanted to come over to our house next
time! His mom said that it would be boring over ther since we didn't have any
toys. He said "Do you have bikes?!?" and we had to say
"yes!". So now apparently he wants to come and ride bikes with us.
Well, sorry I have to
run so I won't have much of a spiritual though here but something that I have
been considering (sorry if I already told you this, I've been considering it
for a bit now) is that while obedience will not bring righteousness (after all if
that was true than the pharasees would have been righteous), righteousness
brings obedience. Sometimes we look down on obedience because we assume or
because we know that it alone doesn't mean much, but we forget that if we were
righteous, not only would we also be obedient, but that we would want to be
too! Anyway, just a thought. Sorry to have to run, talk to you all soon!
Love,
April
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