Oh yeah, it´s Elder Muller´s birthday today! We´re going to try and make it good day. We baked a cake last night and we´re going to the beach with a few other missionaries today. We can´t get in the water, but we´ll find something to do I´m sure!
We had some good days this week. Lots of contacting, even more practicing, a few good teaching appointments. I also went on an exchange with a greenie named Elder Drinkwater, and yes, he´s heard every pun about his name ever. If he hadn´t heard it before, he did on Tuesday with me. Hahaha, poor guy. But we had a good day of contacting really angry people. REALLY angry people. The city we were working in is really small, so at least half of the people there knew the missionaries already. It was a little difficult. I´ve noticed something odd-- If someone recognizes us on the street, it is almost always negative. People get their panties in bunch when they see us walk by and make some snide remark about who knows what. Dumb. They don´t even know what they´re talking about. A guy in the city saw us the other day, then quickly proceeded to pull his hat down over his eyes and make a bunch of odd hand signs at us, including crossing himself at least three hundred times. I don´t understand people.
We also has a wonderful lesson with that member referral! She had a lot of questions, and has already read half of The Book of Mormon. Without any help from us, she feels like she has received a witness through the Spirit that it´s true. So, we just need to get in there and help her stop smoking. Other than that, she´s pretty dang ready!
I would say that one thing I´ve learned thus far in my mission is about picking your battles. There are a lot of things that we can fix and work on, but there are so many things that are completely out of our control, or they are in our control and they just don´t matter. We have to learn when we´ve done all we can and just need to hope and trust God. So work hard, trust the Lord, and say thanks after things have happened. Whether they worked out how you wanted them to or not.
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| Look! A kitty! After this picture, this cat followed us down this entire street! It tried to get in a few doors as well. I call him Elder Whiskers. |
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I made us delicious burgers (Homemade) and nectarine milkshakes. Sounds like an odd flavor for a milkshake, but it was delicious!
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Well, that´s about of it for this week.
Keep it swill everybody.
Elder Shaw
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