So, another stinkin week has gone by... this just goes way too stinkin fast... So, crazy week. We were so busy, that I don't even remember the whole week... I guess this is what getting old feels like, just forgetting stuff all the time. Anyway! From what I can remember the week was awesome!
Coolest miracle this week was this guy named Suki. So, Elder Anderson and I were making phone calls one night, trying to weed through these numerous pages of just phone numbers and names and I gave the phone to Elder Anderson cause I had to go use the washroom. Well, when I got back, Elder Anderson had had a conversation with this guy named Suki. Turns out that he was about to commit suicide, and told us to come and visit him tomorrow. So Elder Anderson got off the phone and that's when I walked in. I basically flipped when he told me that! So, the following morning we meet up with him and that was a flipping awesome lesson! He just unloaded all of his problems and he was just so happy after we talked with him! He took a Book of Mormon, and, what is even cooler is that Elder Anderson set a baptismal date with him for October 4th! It’s so freaking awesome!
What was even cooler was the following day! We had set up a lesson with him to go over word of wisdom and law of chastity because this guy is just SO prepared! Before that we had some service to go and do, just helping an investigator move some stuff. We came back to the apartment to change and we heard a loud snap outside, and then we heard from upstairs, "the tree fell on the car!". Well, you can guess what happened...our car got hit by a branch. Our roof is bent in, and the windshield was just shattered. So we called President Burt and, well, that was fun explaining to him. "A tree fell on the car." I could only imagine what he was thinking!
So after that, we went straight to work and thank goodness for the coolest old dude ever! Brother Brown is a lifesaver! We were meeting with him at the church to go to the lesson together and we went to meet with Suki. Well, while we were there, nothing was really going anywhere, partly because McDonalds was playing some music that I had never heard before. Hearing songs that I had never heard before really makes me feel old in the mission. I still have a year left of that too...So yeah! We were there and some weird old dude started coming up and talking to us, which is always fun to bump into when we are teaching the law of chastity. You honestly have to be so stinking bold in teaching it, otherwise things might get confusing. So you can only imagine telling someone not to look at pornography, have sex outside of marriage, as well as the other things that it entails, inside of a busy McDonalds. Well, the day before we figured out that there was going to be a baptism on Saturday, which was that day that we were meeting with Suki, and, he was just so cool! We invited him to the baptism which was 45 minutes after that lesson and he just came! Bro. Brown just drove us all over! COOLEST OLD GUY EVER!!!
We also got to meet with Valentino! We were able to set a baptismal date with him for October 4th as well! Other than that, not much. We always meet with Gus and this past Saturday was his 3 week mark of not smoking! WOOHOO!!! Now he just needs to get off of the drinking and he is a go! So awesome!
Not much else happened. We burned 2 hours of our P-Day driving to Richmond to get an estimate on how much the car would be to fix. The guy who was taking the pictures said it was going to be pretty expensive. Other than that it was an awesome week! Everything is just going great! God is just so good though!
Love you all!
Love
Elder McCown
