Week 10/104

May 16, 2016

Hello Everyone!

There have been no shortage of interesting things said to me while
I've been on my mission. I've yet to have someone start spewing
anti-LDS information at me yet, though we almost had someone do that
to us while we were shopping last Monday. His wife stopped him before
he got too into it. My favorite thing that has been said so far was
from a nine year old boy. One of our less active members is a single
mother with one son. We visit with her every week, but her son is
pretty antisocial, and doesn't really like being around people he's
doesn't know very well. This past time we met, we were just at their
door, and as we were talking with Carrie (the member), Trey (her son)
came up to tell his mom he was going to bed. As he was walking down
the hall to his room, he yelled, "Goodnight, Mom! Goodnight, Mom's
friend! Goodnight, Mormons!" We all bust up laughing.

It's moments like these that really make missionary work fun. Even
though Trey's not interested at all in learning about the gospel, he
knows who we are. He knows there's something different about us. And
when he is looking for something more in his life, he will remember
that difference we carried with us, and he'll search it out.

Another story pertaining to members: Elder Hemsley and I went to
dinner with a wonderful family named the Burnes. When we got there,
Brother Burnes showed us this clown doll he had gotten from a friend
on the Indian reservation. We were laughing and joking about it all
during dinner. A few days later, we're biking home from proselyting,
and we see something leaning against our door. It's the clown! It's
been sitting in various places in our house ever since.