This week was a TREAT! Aka it was the same as every week, haha. Do I say that every week, too? Gah. I 've been writing weekly letters for so long I'm running out of original content. Sorry, y'all.
Do y'all remember Joe? Not my brother, but the guy who I said was living with us at Brother Kelly's house? Well after 4 months he finally left this week. He had a really hard time here in Odessa and is probably one of the most unlucky guys that I have ever met in my entire life. He moved back to Utah, so I'm sure y'all will meet him someday, like maybe at my Homecoming. Joe was a real interesting guy. I love him to death, but he wasn't the easiest guy to live with. He was really high maintenance and stuff, which makes sense givin his past, but still, it wasn't too easy. Anyway, the point is that I was really genuinely sad when he left! That made me real scared for transfers this week. The chances are pretty high that I will be leaving, fingers crossed that I wont, but I probably will. I realized that if I was that sad about saying goodbye to a guy I didn't even really enjoy being around then how much harder is it gonna be to say goodbye to Brother Kelly and the entire ODessa 3rd Branch!! Gah. I'm not looking forward to that at all!! I love these people so so so so so much. I mean, when I said goodbye to y'all it was sad, but I knew I'd see you again for 100% sure, but that's not the case here! I guess it's a good thing facebook exists and ODessa is in the USA so I can come visit real easy.
It was freezing butt cold this week, real bad, and we dropped all of our investigators again, so we had nothing to do. Elder Gillette was too cold to go street contacting (that's where we just walk around the streets and talk to people who are already outside) for too long so we decided to go knocking for a while! We went to the mexicanyiest area and started our journey. We talked to one pot head who really wasn't interested, but he told us that his neighbor was a devil worshiper and sacrificed dogs and stuff...so we went and knocked that house to see what's up!! IT ended up being the pot head's parents and they were really nice Christians. They invited us right in and were quick to offer us some nice warm coffee (tehe..no no no). We talked to them for about an hour and let me tell you...they were SO DUMB!! The lady was adamant that Baptism is not a commandment. She loved the Bible so much and she claimed that it never said that a person must be baptized...WOW! So I used her own bible and showed her John 3:5 and explained the doctrine. She totally just dismissed it, haha. I like tried to bash with here a little, I was pulling out all kinds of scriptures from her own bible, but every scriptural proof just rolled off of her haha, oh well. IT was still good practice for me! I am very very grateful for their warm house!
Gillette and I decided to try by a few former investigators form our area book. We prayed that we would be guided to people who would be ready to accept the message the just picked some names, neither of us felt extremely guided or anything. We decided to go try by a guy named Ezekiel. So we drove up to the house and it was one I recognized. I had talked to the owner of that house 6 months ago, and it wasn't Ezekiel AKA he had moved. But we thought "hey why not try by the guy who does live here?" We knocked on the door and some other random guy answered! He invited us right in, though. He was real nice, Teo is his name. It turns out that he had just moved to ODessa from Denver and was taking missionary lessons over there! He was excited and happy to find us here in Texas as well and we had a really really good lesson about the Book of Mormon with him! I know that that house we went to visit wasn't Eziekel, but I do know that we were still guided by the spirit to pick that name and that house so we could find Teo! The spirit of the lord works in mysterious ways!
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