Tuesday night we were asked to go give a blessing to a guy in the hospital. He got in a Bike accident and his cousin who is a member from Colorado asked us to come. So we gave the guy a blessing, the spirit always seems to be the most present to me when giving a blessing. It was a very good experience, tears were shed. But not by me. We also gave a blessing on Friday. The Halls from Lititz ward were in Baltimore, her mom wasn't recovering well from a surgery to remove an infected knee replacement. Yikes. It was really cool to see them again. It's a humbling thing when you get to represent God in blessing someone.
Anyways back to the ups and downs of people. On Wednesday we taught a guy named Davon. Davon talks like there's no tomorrow. But we were able to go through the Plan of Salvation because his questions were aimed right up that alley. That part was good but then he started talking he about what he thinks is the truth. He has some out there theories that all churches and religions are part of God's plan and through all of them we can see the big picture. So he thinks Pope Francis has a major role before the 2nd coming, but also thinks an Anti-Christ will come and take Pope Francis' spot. He later said he think's the Muslim's Allah is the Anti-Christ. That is just an example of the craziness this guy has. Whatever people tell him he takes as truth and forms it into his theory. He wants to know the truth, it was frustrating to have the truth but he wouldn't stop talking to let us tell him it. Kind of a mess but we met with him twice. The first time we were there 2.45 hours. I was not happy about that. The next time we saw him I said we've got till 5pm, then we're leaving. So it worked out better. Davon is going to be taught by the YSA elders but his roommate Edward we'll still teach. We invited him to church but that didn't happen.
We've met quite a few people in town. A surprising amount have said hi to us on the street. Others we've met and they've gone to church before or had met with previous missionaries. Met a lot of cool people, just need to find those who are ready for the message and to act on it. One fun thing we see all the time are what I call Leaners. People on some sort of drug that makes them start falling asleep while standing. The best part is that they don't ever fall over. It's really impressive.
Another cool thing we saw was a bunch of people trying out for the Voice. There were quite a few members there as well who said hi to us. Felt special. It rained a lot on Saturday and the potential Voice stars had to stand in line in the rain.
What else.. a guy let me take pictures of his BMW i8. What a car.
Sunday night was super fun as well. We had dinner at the Hydes and the four of us in the picture below had a competition to see who could eat the most dessert. The qualifier to get in the competition was to eat 2 full plates of food first. Then the dessert of brownies and ice cream. I had 3.5 brownies and 3 scoops of ice cream. But I gave up and the two obvious winners had over 7 scoops of ice cream. It was awesome, except the pain I was in the rest of the night...
The hope this week is to find and teach some new investigators. Get some referrals that are actually in our area. Survive Zone Conference. Try to have the Spirit. That's about it. Oh and don't get shot.
Elder Simmons
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