Week 10: Sequel to the Book of Mormon? Ghosts? Stolen milk?

This week was a pretty average week, and yet it really wasn't. First off, the ZL's stole a gallon and a half of our milk on Tuesday so we only had one gallon for the rest of the week. They figured that since we used a half gallon of milk at their apartment during exchanges that they could just get back what we owed them. Plus they had no more money on their cards for food. So that was pretty funny. We also decorated our apartment for Christmas, so now we have a mini tree and a small line of Christmas lights.

On Wednesday we met our goal for finding new people, and this one lady we talked with we shared the video He is The Gift, and it made her cry. I'm not sure why, but it was cool to see the Spirit at work.
Thursday was also pretty normal, and we again met our goal for new people even after we raised the bar.

Friday was pretty awesome. We had interviews with the mission president in the morning, and right after we finish this man walks into the church asking where he could get the sequel to the Book of Mormon. His coworker had given him the Book of Mormon, and recently he injured his arm at work so he couldn't do much except sit at home. He said he doesn't really like to watch TV since he gets bored easy, so he read the Book of Mormon and finished it. That never happens. Except for with this guy apparently. So we gave him a triple combination book so he now has both the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price. That night we had soccer again and we had a ton of people there. Last week only one guy showed up, but this week we had people come that we've never even seen before. It was awesome. And right before we started playing we shared a Christmas video with them as we do each week. So that was pretty cool.

Saturday was the light the world service day, and we helped a man in our ward clean out his backyard. He lives in a trailer so his backyard is pretty small, but he had piles of trash over 6 feet tall. Only half of it was in garbage bags, so we took that half to the dump in someone's truck, so we had to make 4-5 trips. We did that for most of the day, and then that night we had another small miracle. On Thursday we found a small family that said that we could come back later to share a message with them, and on Saturday night we came back, and according to what the other two elders said, they're primed for baptism. They're Catholic but they dont understand why children need to be baptized. They were excited to learn what we had to teach them, and when Elder Powell and Elder Williams gave them a chapter of the Book of Mormon to read, they started reading right then and finished half of it before they left. It was so cool.

Yesterday was also pretty good. One of the people that we had on date for baptism at the beginning of this transfer came to church today. They had been on a trip in California for several weeks so they missed the baptism, but upon returning they brought 3 unbaptized children (UBC) with them, so we might be getting 4 baptisms. And then while at church a kid of one of the members came up to us asking when he could get baptized. We have been seriously blessed with miracle after miracle.

And then last night we had a pretty strange experience. We were at an apartment complex, and as we were knocking upstairs we saw this man standing out in the courtyard. And for the 10 minutes it took us to knock the upstairs he hadn't moved. He wasn't even doing anything. Just standing there looking off into the distance at nothing. We then walked down the stairs to go talk to him and tried to start a conversation. It went something like this:
"Hey how's it going?"
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"How's your day been?"
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"We're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, have you talked to missionaries like us before?"
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"Can we help you with anything tonight?"
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"Okay you have a good night."
...

It was so weird. He didn't move at all. All he did was slide his eyes over to look at us and then resumed looking at nothing. He had what looked like a medical band on his wrist so we figured that he might have been a mental hospital patient, but he looked homeless like he'd been on the street for a while. After that awkward encounter we just resumed knocking the lower level of that same building. And we would just glance over every once in a while. We were so confused as to what he was doing. And then 5 minutes later we glanced over, looked away for a second, and when we looked back he was gone. Just completely gone. He must have vanished into thin air because we would have been able to see him walk somewhere since he was standing out in the open. We tried looking around to see where he went after we finished knocking that building but we couldn't find him. So that's my ghostly encounter.

Oh, also transfers are next week, but I'll find out where I go on Saturday.

Pictures:
1. Puzzle I finished on Tuesday. And it's missing ONE PIECE. It's killing me.
2. Funny don't break in sign.

Puzzle I finished on Tuesday. And it's missing ONE PIECE. It's killing me.

Funny don't break in sign.

Interviews with the President Lieshman