This has been a crazy awesome/long/awesome again week! So to start it off, we had exchanges this week with the zone leaders...Guess they started freaking out wondering why we were not teaching anybody so they came out and we saw some awesome miracles! Talked to a lot of cool people...not too interested though...the seeds will be reaped later!!!
It all came down to Saturday though...this is of course our day of the week where we dont even touch the car and we look outside and it is raining cats and dogs x10...So we start walking and walking and walking, and we keep on getting wetter and wetter and wetter...As we were walking I had this really strange epiphany...we are out walking, in the middle of summer, and we were freezing cold, sopping wet from head to toe...and I just kept thinking..."What the heck! Its freaking summer and I am cold!" So we keep walking and walking and I have become my own personal walking bathtub by now, my shoes having a couple of inches of water in them. Well, we get to the apartment building and we ring the buzzer. So, backing up a little bit, Elder Vanatta and I, because we did not have anyone to teach, spent weekly planning, (which was this past Thursday), going through and planning in times for us to go by formers, potentials, less actives, you name it, and we just tried so hard to follow the spirit... One of those people that we planned in was actually Greg. So we rang Greg's buzzer, told us who we were, and he came right down so quickly! Well talk about a miracle! He remembers talking to missionaries quite a bit and from the records it looked like they were not able to teach him much...He was just so willing to learn though! He wanted a Book of Mormon right off the bat and we are hopefully going to be able to meet with him later this week! So excited! It was so relieving to be able to find someone that you could actually feel and see have potential as well as a desire!
After a long day of walking and walking some more, we were not able to find anyone else, but it was still so good! Later that night, transfer calls were going on, and I think that this has to be the best part of the week!
The assistants normally make the calls from about 8-130...so we were sitting there in our beds after planning, and Elder Vanatta is just so on edge...1030 rolls around and lights are out...Elder Vanatta says, "Well there goes transfer calls!" Well...not even kidding, 3 seconds later the assistants called and Elder Vanatta just looks so confused...So yeah! I am getting a new comp! His name is Elder Hsu...bet you can’t say that the right way! It’s actually pronounce "shoe"... Who knew right!? Elder Vanatta is heading over to Maple Ridge, so I guess he gets to spend his last transfer in the mission in peace cause he is not with me... SO yeah! Great week! Little miracles here and there!
Sure love yall so much!
Love
Elder McCown
