Email 6/20/11

This week was good I think...nothing terribly exciting...

We had an OYM one night like 4 weeks ago and we ended up helping the guy the next day with the elders to move around his furniture because he had a cockroach and bug problem and was going to get his apartment sprayed. But he has all these medical problems and couldn't lift stuff so we offered to help him, he kept saying he wasn't interested in the church but if we wanted to help we could...so we did. Seeing his apartment was depressing to see how lonely the poor guy is. I don't know if he's ever had a friend before. The Elders have been meeting with him and helping him when he needed help and little by little he started learning about the church and reading the Book of Mormon. He's getting baptized next week and seriously looks like a completely different guy now he looks so happy and less hunched over and he has a huge ward family and everyone in the ward knows him and takes care of him. He's so excited about his baptism he couldn't wait to tell us it was so cute:) My testimony of OYMing grew a little...98% of the time OYM just sucks but every now and then we actually find someone who is prepared and searching.

We had a really bad lesson this week with one of our investigators, she non-stop talks and makes it impossible to teach and pull the lesson back on track. I always find myself saying crazy stuff in the lessons with her like "Wow, your brothers broken ankle and crazy ex husband reminds me of Joseph Smith when he wanted to know which church was..."? It's so hard to get back on topic we have tried to teach The Restoration 3 times but she just keeps randomly telling stories that have nothing to do with anything. This week we kind of got through the Restoration and at the end we committed her to baptism and she said "Well it's all the same God, I mean you guys have your gold plates and Joseph and we have the Moses and the tablets, plus I was already baptized but it's all the same right?".....FAIL. We tried to clear up what the Book of Mormon was and at the end of that she flipped through the BOM and saw Ether and said that it was taken out of the bible. We tried to explain no that is Esther...We weren't getting through and she wasn't listening we were both so frustrated because we were explaining as clearly as we could...ahhh. She's such a nice woman but I think all she wants to do is feed us and that is the absolute last thing we want in the whole world.

Speaking of... remember that one family that kept talking and we prayed that we could get through to them? We forgot to pray this week:( we had to eat. I tried to say no like 10 times but she looked at me like I stole her birthday and killed her puppy and asked if I didn't like her food?...AHH so 2 nasty bowls of some funky shrimp soup later...we thought we were going to puke all night...

We are praying before we go in next time. I refuse to eat.

Alright that pretty much sums it up..

I love you:)