Sorry about the late letter but because it was Labor Day yesterday, EVERY single library and grocery store (except for Walmart) was closed so we couldn't really do anything about that. :) But anyways, GAH RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!!! So this week was the week where I was the senior companion and I make like all the decisions and whatnot so that was actually a lot of fun and a really good experience for me. :)Monday night we went and taught the Jones family (they live in Readlyn) and that was a really good lesson cuz we talked about faith and how it gets us through the hard times and such. (Hahahahaha so they have a daughter named Celeste who is my age and she was TOTALLY hitting on me and Elder Hollan throughout the entire thing it was soooooo weird but strangely funny at the same time! Hahaha!) Haha so tuesday we were knocking doors and we went up to this door to knock it and as I raised my hand to knock, this guy opens the door, comes out with a Bible in his hand, and says "Alright lets turn to Colossians 1." And we were both just like, "Oh no we got ourselves a basher, its gonna be one of those days." Haha we were totally judging because he is actually really cool, his name is Paul Klinge, and we had a really good talk with him about the Godhead and such and he is the nicest guy ever. :) Later in the week, we had a discussion with him for like an hour and a half and he told us his religious journey. Haha he calls himself a "Lutheran Bapta-Costal". :)
On Wednesday, we got to go and do service at NorthStar again and I looooove doing that cuz its so much fun and the people are all hilarious!!! Jeremy, one of the disabled people at NorthStar, told us that he likes it when we come cuz it makes him happy. Thats so cool. :) Later we went to Tripoli (about 20 minutes away) and we knocked doors and that was fun even though nobody was really interested that much. Planting seeds y'know? :D Hahaha while we were driving there the phone rings and it says Sister Austin (from our branch) so I answered it and it was their daughter Airyn!! She had to come home early from her mission cuz of some medical problems. Hahaha I answer and I'm all like, "Hello this is Elder Flake" And then I hear, "Hi Elder Flake this is Hermana Austin how are you today?" Then me and Elder Hollan were both like WHAT THE DUMP? Hahaha it was just like huh? Anyway, they were just setting up an appointment for
Saturday. :) Oh and earlier that day, we were trying to contact some less-active people and one of them (Brother Engel) especially cuz he hasn't come to church quite some time. So we knocked on his door and this little naked Asian boy (he is like two) answers the door and he starts saying all this rapid-fire Chinese stuff! Hahaha we were like "where is your mom? Can we talk to her?" Then he'd be like "*&*$%%#%^#" and run off and get a random toy and show it to us. (Thats meant to be Chinese by the way i don't know any real words) We eventually were able to see brother engel and talk to him and he is way cool and a super nice guy. (The little boy is his son-he married a really nice Chinese lady named Sanae) :)
On Thursday before district meeting, we got taught how to do family history by Sister Swallow (from our branch) and that was a lot of fun even though I'm still totally confused by it! :D After district meeting, I made A LOT of cookie dough and we baked up a bunch of cookies and ran them by members and investigators and that was super fun as well. :) We also taught an atheist guy in the trailer park about prayer and he said he would try it out and it was super awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!! We then stopped by Dave's house (history buff dude) and met with him. He had just lost his job earlier that day and he was super depressed but we were able to have a good lesson with him on faith and the Book of Mormon and he said he'd try reading it more.
Friday we went and visited Kathy Curlee (a recent convert from our branch-she got baptized in may) to see how she was doing, haha she lives in the middle of nowhere! And man her life is hard! Majority of her family hates her guts and thats super sad. Her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend live with her and all those two do is sit around and smoke weed and break the law of chastity! Sheesh c'mon people! Kathy also has MS so she has some hard physical trials as well. But even though her life is really rough Kathy has THE STRONGEST testimony I have ever seen in anyone! She is sooooooo cool! We had a really good lesson on how afflictions and trials always happen before the good things can happen and that was really cool to be able to have that with her. That night the Smiths (in our branch) gave us dinner and we were able to share a good lesson with them about missionary work. Hahahahahaha they are both hilarious! They actually met on their mission (they were both in the Philippines) and they had some hilarious mission stories!
Saturday we did service at the Community Gardens (always a fun time!) and then we went to Cedar Falls cuz Elder Hollan had to interview Mary (an investigator of the sisters in Cedar Falls) for baptism so we chilled up there for a bit. We came back and appointments were falling through left and right, no one was interested, UNTIL we knocked on an apartment door and a lady named Nicki answered! She has had s craaaazy hard life and she doesn't believe in God cuz she says "if God is loving like you say, how can he let bad things happen all the time?" But we were able to have a good lesson with her on the Atonement and the gospel in general and we are going back
on Friday. :) After Nicki, we went to the Austin's house and had an awesome lesson on missionary work and that was a lot of fun. We also got to hear Airyn talk about all of her mission stories and whatnot and those were way cool-she served in Carlsbad, California. :) After the Austins, we went to Kevin's house to see if he still wanted to come to church (we haven't been able to get a hold of him at all) and he said he would!
Sunday we had an excellent sacrament meeting, Kevin didn't come but hey the church is still true!! We went to an appointment we had with an atheist college student girl named Jolisa. She wasn't there but we met her boyfriend Abebe (he is Ethiopian) and he is way legit and chill and he was all "oh you guys can come back
on Friday she'll be back from Chicago then." Sweet!! :D Yesterday nothing was really working but we were able to go and share a lesson with the Lassen family from our branch. They used to be Jehovah's Witnesses and they were converted about two years ago and they told us their conversion story and it was crazy!!!!!! Well thats about the week in a nutshell!
Oh and yesterday we were able to go down to Nashua and watch these crazy chuckwagon races!!! They have four horses harnessed to an old wagon and when the gun goes off, the team throws like a stove and a bunch of other stuff in the back of a wagon, and then they take off racing other teams!! IT WAS SOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! After that, we went to "the little brown church in the vale" and took pics of it and stuff. Its a really old, historic little church in Nashua and it was awesome! :) Oh i totally just remembered this but
on Tuesday we went to go see Josh (our new investigator-college aged guy) and he tried to give is the Book of Mormon back but we had a good lesson on his doorstep about the Book of Mormon and praying with real intent to find out the truth and he decided to try it out again. :) Awesome. :)
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