5/29/17

This week has been bad all at once. I'm doing fine and my companion and I get along great. It all started on Wednesday when we were supposed to go to the Temple with Edward but he wasn't texting back, and then he did and there were very long texts that didn't actually tell us how he was feeling. But it wasn't good. We went over there and he wouldn't answer the door. So then the trip was off and suddenly we have a recent convert that is trying to not be a member anymore. He had some sort of anti we think, but the main problem is he thinks he can help people better with out the church. The church is too small to bring his friends to, and if its not from the Book of Mormon we don't give any thought to it. It has been like he has forgotten everything that I taught him, and everything the Holy Ghost testified to him. It was the Spirit he felt coming into church and what he felt at his baptism. Its been awful. It was one of the worst days in the history of Elder Simmons' ever to occur. But each day I have felt the pains of him making his own decisions leave me. I know I did my part. We're going to try to get him back though. I'm sure whatever he's going through has been miserable as well. So there's that story.

People we did see were Hank. He is doing awesome, we had some very good Book of Mormon reading with him and taught him about the temple. He's even done a lot of Family History already. Boo-freakin-yah. We're hoping he stomach incision is not infected so he can get baptized on June 10th.

Good ole Dalijah spitting out raps.

Henok we also got to see. We went over the Word of Wisdom, read the section in the Doctrine and Covenants. Turns out he stopped the major problems in Africa. and when he came to America he stopped drinking tea and coffee. It was a very nice lesson to have.

Some cool trains, that maybe I wasn't supposed to stand on...

Zone Conference was this week. I've been going to the same Zone Conference since September. Only one other Elder has been in it longer then I have. But it was good. We learned about things that I can't specifically remember right now. But it was 7 hours of things.

This was a interesting night. We were "watching" the game with two homeless guys (one since has received a Book of Mormon). Then the young guy came up and said he wanted to take a picture with us. So I got out my camera and this happened. Then he went on his merry way. Pretty strange, but that's what Baltimore is for.

Also a huge gathering of "Magic the Gathering" enthusiasts came to town. I don't know (or care to know) anything about the game, but these guys were nice enough to let me sit by them for a second.

This week is looking much more up. I'm super determined to get more investigators. I want to finish this whole mission thing right.

Elder Simmons