To Mid or Not to Mid

 As I sit pondering possible hilarious tales from my week, i realized I had none. Than I began to think, "Do I really have to write an email if it's going to be super mid?" And the answer would seem to be yes because here we are. (I guess as I write this email I actually have more stories than I thought I did)

This last Saturday one of our friends was baptized. He is 10 or 11 and is the child of an active family in the church who wanted to wait to have him baptized so he could understand a little more about baptism before he was baptized. And so because he was over 8, the missionaries still needed to teach him. And since I got here we've taught an interactive plan of salvation, a hamburger matching game about commandments because the kid told us we couldn't pull it off, and we got attacked by their cat everytime we came over. Overall a complete success.

Other than that this week was spent primarily doing things to help us find other people to teach because everyone we have been teaching and had set up lessons with decided to either choose to believe propaganda against the church without asking whether it was true or if there was context for it, or just decided to be lame and cancel the lesson. 

That being said, we did have a lesson with a Vietnam veteran which was mostly him telling us his life story with a lot of detail. He has a good foundation in God even if he isn't interested in switching religions and isn't comfortable with coming to church. But the cool thing is that he feels comfort when he reads the Book of Mormon, so that's a testament of something pretty important if he would realize it.

The rest of the week involved visiting random people who used to be interested in the Church or members who used to be interested in the Church. We also knocked a lot of doors and randomly pulled over in our car to offer pictures of Jesus to a lot of people, many of whom happened to only speak Spanish, but some spoke English!

This led to us meeting one guy named PT who believes we have the potential to become like Christ which was cool, and he believes that his own soul had walked away leaving his memories and now another soul has possessed his body. He also believes we live in the Matrix. But he said he would read the Book of Mormon. 

Another woman we met actually has a really solid testimony of Christ. She loves Him and loves serving others. She has a big old lady laugh, works 50 hours a week, and is trying to quit smoking. So we're going to meet with her again this upcoming Friday.