Hey people. This week has been one for the memory books. On Monday we had our first lesson with Victoria. It couldn't have gone much more perfect. We went over the restoration and it's comforting to teach someone you know is smart so you can count on them understanding you. Even though I still suck at teaching haha. She understands why we have the Book of Mormon, and is going to read! When we invited her to be baptized she said yes! We're not too sure on the date yet because she'll be going to college in the beginning of August so.. The Iversons did a great job at testifying and teaching her. It was great. Her only question she had heard about before was baptisms for the dead. Not a very hard one to explain. The theme of the lesson if put in sentence would be. God has restored his church to bless families and to let every individual have a fair chance to accept Christ. Victoria is the most solid person I've ever taught on my mission.
On Tuesday I hit my 11 months as a missionary! Pretty hard to believe. I barely have more months than less. Shout out to my friend in the MTC who'll read this and be a whoppin 4 weeks out. Good luck Elder Perry. I went on exchanges with Elder Duffy, we had a good time. Relived some High School days together. The highlight of the day was when we went to a pretty vacant park, we didn't know what was going to happen but we were going to be there. We walked near a pavilion that had 5 burly men taking a break from their landscaping job. We wanted to talk to them but how do you just walk up to a group of people and bring up the gospel in a not weird way? I remembered a trick from Pitt I'd use on the daily: ask them for help. So we went up and I asked where the closest gas station was. Immediately they all were helping us out and being really kind. Easily us being missionaries came up because they knew we weren't from there. Bada Boom bada bing I gave them a articles of faith card so they know what us lost Mormons believe in. They also let us take pics in their BobCat. For lengths sake I'll finished the day at that.
Thursday was a good day. We got to start calling bingo at a old folks place. It's super fun and they are a hoot to be around. We got to talk with 3 of them about being missionaries and a bit about the church so it's a awesome way to start preparing souls for the spirit world! Lol. Oh I have to tell you what their all trying to win by playing bingo! When you win you get a coupon that is worth five cents, that they can redeem at their shop. What they all aim for earning is 6 coupons to buy a single banana! Hahaha, what a great deal! After we went up to Lititz' cute little Main Street. It was a sweltering 96 degrees with at least 60% humidity. We were roasting. I voted to go to an ice cream shop to cool off. I got to talk to the girl working there about her hat which said Messiah on it, which lead to her school, leading us to her beliefs, then mine, then a Book of Mormon was given to her. She said she's always interesting in learning about other religions so I told her that if she read it she'd know for sure. She was pretty awesome, I got a punch card for the shop. If I'm going to try to convert this girl the least I can do is go seven times and get the eighth free!
Friday we visited Ralph and Bro Maninger. Had a dinner with a member at Moes. I got my tray of food and put my right hand in my cup. I put the tray on a little ledge that needed to by held up by a hand. Or hip. I reached with my left hand for a cup and my hip lied and the tray started to slip off the counter. In a last second attempt to catch the tray I tried to snag it with my right hand. The same right hand THAT HAD A CUP OVER IT. it all went crashing down in quite the scene. All the Moe'sers made a mock of me. "You Mormons with you bleepin terrible hand eye coordination!" Ok it wasn't that bad.
Saturday we offered to help some older ladies in the ward with yard work. It turned out to be about 3 1/2 hours or weeding in the sun. Wife points for days. Sunday was a good day. I enjoyed church as always. Got to go to gospel doctrine for the first time in my life. We had the second lesson with Victoria on the Plan of Salvation. We made sure we taught her to her understanding but we probably were lacking in the testimony department. Hard balance in a new knowledge lesson like that. She isn't against it, she just needs to think about it and pray over it. She's awesome and the Iverson's are great as well. It's been a really awesome week.
Good luck to elder Davis who's heading out to the wild Baltimore yonder. And I'll be getting a new comp who'll be our district leader.
Elder Simmons
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