3/7/16

Well where to begin with this week of weeks! Tuesday we had a pretty solid day at Penn State. It's the most expensive people watching tuition can buy! I talked to two really sweet people. One was a girl named B. Juice, first off a girl with the last name Juice should probably be able to keep her last name when she gets married. Second we had a really good conversation about the BOM. I introduced it to her, told her it's going to bless her just like the Bible does. Then I touched on prophets and how the BOM is the evidence that a prophet has been called on the Earth again. She agreed that it kinda changes everything to know that God called a prophet again. So I hope she reads. Side tangent, lately in my studies the underlying message I keep getting is the confusion caused by the apostasy and knowledge caused by the Restoration. It's been a big week building my testimony on Doctrinal differences that we now enjoy that others still have lost. Anyways the other guy I talked to was named Brad, #swag, he just came up to me and shook my hand. We had about a half hour talk, I was called to defend my Faith a bit. He was a sincerely nice guy and really loves being Christian but he believes that through Christ's grace were saved and only by that we can come back. Which is true but it's after all we can do. He even pulled out 2 Nephi 25:23 thinking it would stump me in that they talk about Grace differently. But what he doesn't realize is that he doesn't have all the knowledge. But luckily he was still a humble guy (like most Brads are ba dum tss) and he accepted a BOM. He said he'd read with a open heart, not looking to rip it apart. And he said he'd pray about it. Not much more I can ask from the guy.

Wednesday was the whopper. Had a district meeting, then we were out tracting in quant, Pine Grove Mills, PA. We knocked on a good amount of houses in a neighborhood. Met a deaf woman, the dog from that Sandlot, and a whole lot of 'no thanks'. The best part is that everyone we talk to is always super nice. Well almost. We tried a new neighborhood and the first house we hit an older lady answered. I introduced ourselves and she just said you need to go now. Then she repeated herself and said you need to go right now. So we went our way, and Elder Curtis says, did you see that? Apparently not, I was preoccupied with her dogs but she was holding a gun in her hand. A solid 9 mm, I wish I had noticed it so bad. But nevertheless we kept on knocking. A few houses later I looked back to see her on the phone looking at us through her window. I thought she's either calling her neighbors or the cops. It wasn't the neighbors because all her neighbors were very kind to us, one guy has even been to Temple Square. Also, it was the cops because shortly after a Police officer rolled up. He was super nice and he told us that people are uptight because there was a homicide in the town not too long ago and they still don't know who shot the older woman's face off after walking into her house. So I'll give the lady some credit for being such a dingus. The officer also said that because we're just doing our church thing they can't kick us out. But it's causing some uneasiness. So we thought meh! Let's keep knocking. We knocked one more house and see that another cop has come to assumedly just sit there and watch us. So then we decided to not waste the good taxpayers money on us and bounce. Oh also the Cop took the picture for us.

The classic: get the cops called on you then have the cop take the pic for you, picture.


Thursday we got to do service at two churches cooking food, it's always a good time. Except when you make friends with a Giants baseball fan. Gross. But we had our dinner and lesson with the Heilmans that night! With another couple from the Ward there, we had a great time listening to both the smoke detector and Bro Heilman talk for two hours. At the end we got our playing time and talked about the Restoration with Ronda (turns out she's already been taught it). She talked about her wanting to learn more about the church and to one day become a member. I felt that I needed to say that we can do it at her own pace, because we're just the guides n@. There was a very good spirit during the discussion with the Williams testifying and Ronda wanting to join sometime soon. Also some crazy ish with the Catholic Church happened around here.

Friday we had Forums, it being the last day before the spring break not too much happened. I had a good time, I talked to some cool people. One guy I talked to has Randal from Monsters Inc. as his Spirit Animal on point.

Randal from 'Monsters Inc' lols.


I didn't give a single BOM out, which is kind of disheartening at times, but in the end the Lord provided. After a dinner in which I burned my mouth to a crisp with hot sauce that is 9.6 mil on the SHU scale. It was dropped into a bowl of chili, stirred, and I had one bean. I have never felt Satan's wrath more that eating that bean.

Eating a bean that was hit with a drop, then stirred in a bowl or 9.6 Mil hot sauce on the SHU scale.

Afterwards we took a walk around the town. We talked to an Asian couple, who were actually Christian. First time that's ever happened to me. I gave them a BOM and invited them to church. Saturday has been crazy too. It's been my best week in State College for sure. If anyone is still reading this props to them because I doubt I'd get this far reading anyone else's weekly updates. Anyways, Elder Curtis and I went to iHop and not only got breakfast but a phone number of our waiter. Another guy named Nick, who is super spiritual and loves God and has a crazy story finding God apparently. I gave him a Restoration Pamphlet which I happened to grab spur of the moment. He was awesome, more to come with him.

Nick, our waiter at iHop


We also met a woman who said she wanted to be baptized into a church, but she lives in Altoona so that's too bad. We also went to Cold Stone and the girl working there was interested too! She got a BOM. For dinner with Sherry, a recent convert, and her mom we went to Chick-fil-a. The manager swiped a mysterious credit card and paid for us. It was like $30 in the end. Sherry said it was a miracle because she didn't have much cash. So that's crazy. No one fessed up to it so we couldn't thank anyone. Blessings to that person. Later that night we got scared by a possessed dog -like 84% sure here-and got out of the creepy dark neighborhood. It was quite the day. God put a lot of people in our path that day and it's mind blowing to get Divine help.

Sunday was a very pleasant day, Ronda came to church so no complaints. No Asian couple but I wasn't expecting it. Church is my favorite part of the week, even if fasting is tough. I even paid fast offerings for the second time ever. Lol whoops. This upcoming week is going to be crazy, a Zone Conference, the fireside, and a baptism for the other Elders!

Peace

Elder Snommis

A guy who's ancestor helped design and build the tabernacle at Temple square. (Henry Grow)

Cool wood shop thingy

Got my first kill