Monday 30: After emailing, as a district we went to play lazer tag, which was awesome. I won both rounds we played. Then we went to Wendy's for dinner. Then we went with one of our members to see some less actives while we were in our P-day clothes. So that was fun. Then we saw Waiting and she said that she prayed about when she should be baptized and 11-23 just came into her mind. It was a Saturday, so we thought, "Great!"
Tuesday 1: We went to go see a media referral but he was busy, so we're going to set up a time when we can see him again. Then we went to a senior center and talked with a less-active named Sister Gottschall. She's really spunky and we set up a breakfast with the whole district. We contacted a member referral, Magda, but she was not interested. Then we went to see Marcela and taught a lesson about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. She's being anti'd really hard.
Wednesday 2: We had district meeting and started a tradition of going to Subway afterwards, which was fun. Then we went to go see Albert. We asked him to be baptized on Oct 19, but he said it was too early. He thought about it for a while and then he said, "I just feel like maybe the weekend before Thanksgiving." We looked at the calendar and it also was 11-23, same as Waiting. They both got a feeling for the same day without knowing each other. That's the spiritual experience I talked about in my Q&A. Then we went to go see a woman named Germanie. She had company over and didn't have much time but we talked about the Book of Mormon. Then, as we were waiting for the bus, we talked to a man named Morgan. He loved to talk and I may have said two words.
Thursday 3: We biked to the senior center to help one of Sister Gotschall's friends donate to charity. Then we taught her a good lesson about the Plan of Salvation. We stopped by some houses and had a real short lesson with a family named the Berry's. It was just a scripture and a prayer but it was still good. Then we had our Book of Mormon class but none of our investigators showed up. Then we had a fun lesson with a Chilean family and we're going to teach them again this Friday.
Friday 4: This is the craziest day I've had. Fairly early, we took the buses to the dentist office so Elder Shepherd could get his root canal finished. The ward mission leader, Brother McNaughtan, picked me up, so I didn't have to wait in the dentist office for another 3 hours. The two of us had a really good lesson with a less-active that I have high hopes for. He's a really smart guy, about 25, he just has some medical issues but he wants to come and do some missionary work with us. We actually went to go see Quincy (the three of us) but he wasn't home. Then we went to see Germanie again but she wasn't home. Instead, we taught her boyfriend. We'll see what happens. Then, as we were waiting for the bus, we found a gigantic praying mantis (pictures below). Elder Shepherd picked it up, put it on his helmet and was showing it around. This old Asian lady walked up and was marveling, when it jumped on her. She started screaming and Elder Shepherd brushed it off. Then our bus came and we started getting on when she ran up and handed Elder Shepherd a bag and told him to catch it for her. The bus was leaving but she was insistent. He grabbed it real quick for her and she shoved it in her purse. Then we rode off in the bus. After that craziness, we had dinner with a member family and did a practice restoration lesson with them. Then we went to Nikola's apartment because it was his birthday. We had pie and orange juice and had a good lesson. We didn't get home until like 10:20-ish.
Saturday 5: General Conference!!! My favorite talk was Edwin Dube's about not looking back. And he had a cool accent. We had on our calendar to eat with the Eliason's, so we headed over there. We knocked on the door and they let us in. We were talking and Sister Eliason asked, "Well, missionaries, what can we do for you?" We knew something was bad. Eventually we got it all worked out. They had some leftovers (which they normally don't) and it was good. God really does look out for his missionaries. Then we biked to the church for an ice cream social before General Conference. We had invited Jianming and he was there for both the social and the session. We set up a Chinese session in one of the side rooms of the church but he had no one to watch with. We put on English subtitles and we got a couple other people to watch with us. I didn't get as much out of it but it was cool to be able to watch it in a different language.
Sunday 6: More General Conference!! My favorite talk was President Monson's Sunday morning one about pressing through tough times and having the gospel to help us through those hard times. After Conference, we saw Albert and Cindy and taught them a real short lesson. We also got some questions that we can study and answer for them. We need to get better at that. They have a lot of good questions and so our lessons usually end up being 2 hours long. After that, we saw Waiting and Jianming and talked about Conference. Again a short lesson but it was good. They're just awesome. They always feel bad because their English isn't that good (I think it's really good though). But they've only been in the states like 2 months.
Monday 7: We were going to have breakfast with Sister Gotschall but she was sick. So we went to a restaurant called "Big Boy" as a district. It was pretty good and very filling. We played a bit of basketball and talked afterwards. Then we went home and did cleaning and laundry. We still need to do shopping, eep! Also, Dad, we were waiting for the laundry and your iPhone dock just came to mind. I was working on an equation for that speaker port you want in it. I think I came up with something that'd work but I can't check it so I'm not sure. You might need to change some coefficients. Z^2 + (y + 1/(x+0.1))^2 = e^(x/2-6) Hope it works.
I love you all!!!
-Elder Michael Carlson
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