On Tuesday, I had some very
fun registration paperwork to do. But, I finally got registered! Then,
we tried to clean off the apartment's whiteboard so we could update it.
That was an adventure. Usually, you can just wipe them off. I tried
using lens cleaner, water, and a whole bunch of stuff. The only thing
that ended up working was dish soap. Then, we had to find a marker. That
was another adventure. You can usually find a stationery shop on any
street, but none of them had the. We ended up walking half a mile before
we found one, but along the way we got a bunch of other stuff that we
needed. Finally, we got back to the apartment, and had a clean
whiteboard and a marker. We did the math, then tried to visit a whole
bunch of people. The most memorable of them was one of the missionary's
parents, who doesn't speak much english.
Wednesday,
I had a lot of fun, by completely losing my voice. I had a cold all
week, but it really set in then. I couldn't talk to save my life. Which
is really unfortunate for a missionary. We called Sister Berret, the
mission nurse, who said that I couldn't talk or I might do permanent
damage if I had laryngitis. So, I didn't talk much. However, I did get a
package! Thanks! We had four back to back appointments set, scheduled,
and visited. The first one started late and ended early, but the second
one was amazing. We, or really just Elder Patten, taught a new
investigator, and got him to commit to baptism! Our third appointment
bunked on us, and the fourth one was a little different than normal: a
birthday party. It was fun, but not exactly what we were expecting.
On
Thursday, my voice started coming back! We had a good weekly planning
session in the morning, then headed out. Unfortunately, so did everyone
else. All of our set appointments ditched, including one of the
investigators we had on date. But, we talked to one of the hopefully
soon-to-be-missionaries, and got him excited about serving! We also
talked to one of the less active families that's been under the radar
for a while, and go them to commit to come back to church.
On
Saturday, we started out by trying to print off a better area map. We
have three large maps in our apartment, but all of them show disjointed
small bits of it, not the whole thing. Before we got too far into that, a
member asked us what we were doing, we told him, and he said that he
would take care of it. Later, we visited the Balla family, and shared a
message before asking them to show us where another family lived. They
couldn't, so we moved on. Not much else happened; until school gets out,
no one is ever home. That night, we taught some awesome lessons,
though.
Finally, we had a very fast Sunday. We tried visiting some people before church (2:00),
but no one that we were trying to see was home. However, one random guy
invited us in. We sat down, and he started talking. He had an
interesting story: he had spent 14 years in the U.S. working for
American Express, and also in the Indian Air Force. He mentioned a few
things that were a little off-putting, though, such as how he could have
a million people do what he said and how he could have them build a
million "Jesus churches" if he wanted. That, and he said he was
currently with the political group CPI. I figured that stood for the
something Party of India, but couldn't guess what. That is, until we
excused ourselves and left, when I saw a huge hammer and sickle painted
on the wall with CPI in big letters next to it, and realized that the C
stood for Communist. Then, we went to church, had branch council
meeting, then had dinner. By then, it was 8:00.
So, we visited a very fun family. The father is the first convert in
Rajamundry! He is pretty old, but still both alive and lively, and
funny!
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