29 May 2018

Sorry, this one is going to be really short. I have to type this on a phone keyboard today and I can't send it out to the whole group of people that I normally do. But yes, I'm back in Raleigh and it was tons of fun showing up and getting to talk with everyone again. What was really cool was one of my recent converts offered to drive a long ways just to bring us to his house so we can have dinner with him. It's great to be back! I'm actually living in and working in Knightdale, but we still go to Raleigh 3rd ward. Other than that, not much has been going on. We've spent a lot of time tracting and we found some cool people. We also have had to go to many more meetings now, but we finally have the whole district leader thing figured out. Kinda. We'll get it eventually. The picture is from an ancient artifact that we didn't know still existed, the rumored "Time Clock."

21 May 2018

So the big news of this week is that transfers is tomorrow, and I've already found out that I'm going back to Raleigh 3rd ward! I'm going to be in the 3C area that I've already served in, but only for two weeks. That was after the lovely bike crash that took out my trainer, and I'm going to be serving with my MTC companion again, which is really funny. Partly because that's who I was with for those two weeks as well. So it'll be very interesting being together for the third time, in the same area. The downside to that is that I'm going to be co-district leader with him. That is more responsibility than I want to have to deal with, especially because it involves me speaking a lot more in public than I like. Which is at all, so... I'm sure I'll be able to live through that. It'll be great! The way I got told scared me though. We got a text from President James late Saturday night that said to call him as soon as we could. Which either means that something terrible has happened or that you're going to train, have a leadership position or serve with someone who is generally known to be a hard missionary to get along with. None of those sounded desirable, and so I was just praying that he'd ask for Elder Turner. He did not. And that was when he told me that. But hey, at least I get to know how I'll serve with and where I'm serving, so that's going to be great.

In other news, we just knocked a whole bunch this week. It's been raining, so driving in trailer parks is more like driving a submarine. It's pretty interesting. We found some pretty great people who seem like they're going to have a lot of potential. We got to share the Restoration with them, and one of them was just so great. His name is Ricardo and he just seems perfect! The Spirit was so strong! There's a lot of stuff that's going to be going on next transfer here. 

And then just random stuff. 

 

These are the things that you see in Fayetteville.


Probably my favorite family in Raeford, the Rentas.


That pie that we won and finally got.

And the best piece of beef jerky that I've ever seen. This is because my comp felt pressured into buy it because the only exit that the store had was past the cashiers. It was pretty funny, but all he's done is hung it up on the wall, not eat it. In the package, of course.
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14 May 2018

Well, Mother's Day was the only big thing that really happened this week, so... yeah...

Saturday was really the big day for craziness. We had originally planned to head to a city called Red Springs, but a member called us and convinced us to go to a flea market that he said there were a lot of Hispanics at. Because we're hurting for miles, we agreed. (It's only about 1/3 of the distance of Red Springs.) As we were walking up, I noticed that all of the signs on the fence were in Spanish, not English. So that was a good sign. We walked in and there were people everywhere, but there was an issue: They thought we were the police and would flinch and look away every time that we passed. So that made talking to people hard. We started talking to one person at a stand, but then she spent the next 15 minutes deflecting any gospely topics and trying really hard to sell me these home theater speakers. And she wanted $175 for them. They were not worth that much. So we made some really terrible excuses and walked away. We also got yelled at by someone as we passed by, from some Native American booth. Turns out that he's gone to our church a lot before and "was ordained an elder in our preistship." So that was interesting. And then we also saw someone nearly get shot, but that's a long story. Anyways, we also had a Mother's Day activity and that was weird. We ended up getting an additional 19 water bottles by the end of that, and trust me, we didn't have any problems with having enough water. That's the only picture that I have of this week, sorry. 

On Monday we had a Zone Activity, and that was fun. We did kickball and Ultimate Frisbee, and I ended up really sore. That was probably because I ran a few hundred yards with a 175 pound elder on my back. That kinda hurt. Other than that, it wasn't a very special week. Everyone skipped out on their appointments. Still trying to work hard. Just as a word of reminder, (because I know that Mom will forget) transfers are on the 22nd.

7 May 2018

Well, there isn't too much to report on this one. First, the vlog was discontinued immediately as I found out that it would take over 3 hours to upload the videos. And I don't have that much time. Soo... yeah. Anyways, with the week. So not much happened. The biggest thing that did happen was when we had the police called on us. Again. That never happened before Raeford, but now it's increasing in frequency. But we were knocking in some neighborhood and I saw a police car drive by and I mentioned to my companion that they had probably been called on us. A half hour later, two police cars came up to us and the officers got out. They were friendly enough, and asked for our ID. We had a brief chat, and it seems like whenever they check the plates on the car and see that they're registered to the church, they suddenly can relax a lot. I nearly gave them a card, but decided against it. It's just contacting on hard mode, right? Anyways, the only other big news is that I got a haircut. Nothing too crazy, but it was shorter than I had expected. Whoops. But yeah, it's not been too crazy of a week. And we broke a lightbulb. After our inspection. And tomorrow we have Zone Conference, so they'll be pictures next week.