Church and a Gun

January 2^nd, 2017

We were shipped Crab and we got to cook it and have crab. I learned that there is a way to eat crab. I burned a shirt, we built a Bonfire (missionary standard=confined to a grill) and we went to bed early because there was so many things that we had to get done at church the next day.

 

Dear Family,

This week was crazy we were rained in for most of this week. I know that all of you are thinking "RAIN...REALLY AMMON," in my defense I have to say people are not home, because they are usually in the riverbed tearing it up and if they are home they are usually tired because they just got back, and they don't want us to bring " your Mormon mud in my house.” So, we don't usually go out, but we did get out and visited people and set up some return appointments. We taught an Eternal investigator about the restoration and about the Resurrection. It was touch and go with her but it all worked out in the end. 

 

Now fast forward to Sunday our craziest day in our transfer and was the way we started our new year. We got up, church time was moved back from 9 to 11, but we still had meetings to go to and we had to be there by 9 to make our meeting. We got there after biking HARD to get to the Church we were a tad late but they had not started yet so we were good. After the Ward Council meeting, we were sitting outside in the foyer waiting for our investigator to show up when the executive Secretary walked up to us and started a conversation. He was funny and witty to no end and was telling us his mission stories from the south. When he left to go to the bathroom, right around the corner and he came right back out and said take a look at this and showed us the bathrooms urinal. It was flooding, we turned it off and fixed it as quickly as we could before we were soaked anymore and before we had to go home and get changed. After that we were waiting for our investigator to show up, he never did but don't worry we got his number. :) 

 

We were sitting in sacrament meeting and the door opened to the Chapel and we see that it is one of our investigators, who is the son to another one of our investigators. He comes over and sits next to us, (now pause, our ward mates think that all we do is sit around and do nothing so when they saw that we had an investigator show up for Church their faces hit the floor it was priceless) resume; he asked us if we have seen his mom (our investigator) she didn't show up to our church that day. So I look on over to answer his question and I see a .44 magnum in his jacket pocket sticking out, barely enough to see it (I only recognized it because I have had similar guns pulled on me (thank you Quantico rd.)) We said right after the sacrament was done being passed we could step out in the foyer and help him. He was trying to find his mom, because he heard a woman scream that woke him up and he saw a car drive off and he couldn't find his mom. He used the last of his data to call his girlfriend and she told him that his mom was at church. So he got dressed in a jacket and pair of Combat boots and ran to the church to see if his mom was there, he saw us and asked for our help to find his mom. Out in the foyer, we called his mom and were waiting for her to call us back. While we were talking about the situation he commented on one of the speakers who was giving a talk and said, “Man, that was a solid talk,” and he started talking about Nephi's Ship and quoting it to us (now I was not following the talk, but he did it, he is awesome.) He told us about the first time that he read the Book of Mormon and how the missionaries at first sat down with him to read it and when he did and he said, "In the first Couple of Chapters a guy gets murdered just because he simply had too much money... THIS BOOK IS LIT!!!!" He then read the entire book of Mormon in a week and said that it is a true book and that "The Mormons are by far the closest to the truth if not the truth." We got in contact with his mom and we talked about book of Mormon stories that he loved, and we then sent him on home to deal with the cops and answer their questions. 

 

After that we went back inside to church to get to Gospel principles class and we got stopped by an member, who then gave us a referral and said he brought a nonmember friend who wanted to learn more. The nonmember friend walked up to us and I asked him what do you want to know? He just simply said Everything, so we set up an time to meet with him that day and he said that when he was at church that he felt at peace and at home and that he wanted to be part of it. After church we had a referral that we received from HQ and we knocked on her door when they pulled up and we had to set a return appointment because they were going to have people coming on over and it wasn't a good day for them. 

 

We visited some less active members and helped them with their roof, it is leaking from all the rain and we put a tarp down to divert the rain. We then stopped by the investigator that was mentioned earlier and his mom and everything was all right and we got to teach a little more on the meaning of baptism with them. We then had to get a ride to dinner because it was so cold and the wind was blowing really hard so we got a ride and had dinner. We then taught the member referral from earlier, he wanted to know more and he accepted the invitation to be baptized but couldn't pick a date because he didn't know his schedule so we couldn't set a date and when we finally got back to the apartment we didn't even have time to finish weekly planning. We got changed and FELL into bed and planned to do it tonight. That is this week.

 

Love you all, even you Kyler's Girlfriend,

 

Ammon