23 May 2016

Good morming everybody!! So our mission president asked the zone to help out with a 5K this morning, and it was FREEZING!!!!! And raining, which was super lame, and we just stood there and gave people water, and most of them didn't even want any.. So we were just wet and freezing our buns off :P Anyways though!! This week though was FULL of weird/crazy/fun experiences!! So for starters, let's talk about some tracting experiences ;) So we've been continuing our search in Highland Park, and we actually found TWO Spanish people!! The first one was in his way out to work, so we just got his number before he left. But the other one like said hey to us on the porch, we noticed he had a shirt with some Honduran company thing on it, so we started talking in Spanish, and he just let us right in!! We talked with him for maybe 10 minutes, but he too had to go to work, so we just got his number. So we called him Saturday to see when we could go by, and he was like "well, i don't work tomorrow (Sunday)." we didn't know if that meant "i don't work tomorrow, so come over" or "i don't work tomorrow, so call me then." So we decided to go over, and he opened the door and let us right in!! We ended up just chatting with him for like an hour and a half just about his country, and some of the other Mormon friends he knew back home, and some of the ones here who are Canadian but speak Spanish because they served Spanish speaking missions, and just other stuff! So it was nice to just talk with him (especially in Spanish), and invite him to come play soccer with us and some other people throughout the week (which is something else we do), and he was like yeah sure, if i can. So we'll call and set something up for later this week. I think he likes us because he gave us milk and homemade bread and almost looked like he didn't want us to leave when we were leaving. Supa cool guy :) Also, we were out tracting in a DIFFERENT area that hopefully has some Spanish people, and the first lady was an Afghani lady (I think that's what they're called..?) and she said the lady next door used to be Mormud (neither of us could understand her), and she couldn't do all these things and whatnot, so she left it, then went to another church and found Jesus there. So we talked a bit more and were like well, have you ever heard of the Book of Mormon? And she was like oh yeah! That's what she talked about. We were like oh snap, she wasn't Mormud, she was MORMON, and she found Jesus in another church..? Haha but we went ahead and knocked her door, and she let us in!! She was really nice, and she has come a long way from how she used to be. The ONLY problem with where she "found" Jesus, is that she found it in a church that just doesn't have the proper authority.. But she's happy and doing better than she used to, and that's awesome :) we'll probably go back by later this week to talk with her some more. Well those were just some of the nicer tracting experiences. We met several native people, and one of them just would not accept the Book of Mormon, and was like "no, that's for the people down in Arizona and Mexico. They're a different tribe from us. We've been around for over 30,000 years. We didn't come over on ships or the land-bridge like the others did. We were the originals." Oh por favor! But whatevs! Another native kid though, when we mentioned the Book of Mormon, was like "oh yeah! See I have some questions about that thing, so you guys should come back some time.." So we went back by on Sunday and talked on a bit on his porch, explained what the Book of Mormon is, a bit of how it came to be, and set up an appointment for tomorrow!! He's a pretty nerdy, weird guy, but doesn't seem bashy, but more curious than anything, so we'll see. So yeah, besides the tracting, we got to do some other pretty fun/interesting things too!! Like on Friday, we got a text from the zone leaders telling us that someone in the hospital needed help "bending his leg"... Like what?? So we went to the hospital and asked the nurses and people, and apparently he had surgery that morning and was going to need some therapy or something, and he wanted us to do it..? Not entirely sure, but the nurses told us that they were already gonna have some REAL therapists do that stuff for him. So we ended up not having to do it :P then LATER that day, we got to go to a TRAMPOLINE PARK!!!! Lemme tell ya, that was SO MUCH FLIPPIN FUN!!!! For the entire hour, I was just bouncing off the walls with excitement (see what I did there? ;) hahaha!!) but seriously, I haven't had that much fun on trampolines in my whole stinkin life. Like fo reals, SO many back flips, front flips, twisty trick flip things, slam dunks, dodge ball, you stinkin name it!! The guys we went with were just like man, did you do gymnastics back home or something? "No." Ok, then parkour? "No." Your dad is a doctor "no." Your dad is a dentist "no." Your dad is rich "no." Haha! I don't even know why those were the questions, but I was goin HAM at that place!! I'll send you guys a couple videos in a bit ;) Anywes it was a fun week, and we worked a lot trying to find people to teach, and hopefully we'll start finding some. It's pretty boring having nothing to do :P but you guys rock, and I shall address you again next week ;) take care! Love, Elder Levi Windham