Wow! What a week! That's original...
Anyway! This has been a good week.
Monday, as we were on the bus to go
email, we past an apartment building that was surrounded by 15 or
so cop cars, with 20 or more cops, and several of them had big guns.
What exactly happened, I don't know.
Tuesday, we did our weekly service, but
this week we got to go to the "Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary" which was funny seeing four Missionaries doing service
at a place that trains people to bash with us. Then we got a quick
two minute tour of the place. All in all, it was an ok place but not
nearly as cool as the MTC. That afternoon an older sister from the
branch, who reminds me a lot of Sister Etherington, had all four of
us over for lunch. Funny thing is, she wasn't even close to being ready when
we got there, but she absolutely refused to let us help, thankfully
the sister had invited another sister from the branch to come over.
The second sister was able to help her and we ate an hour later than
planned, but it was still really good and we were very thankful for
her feeding us.
Wednesday, Elder Morrow had his
district leader conference call and while he was on that, the bishops
food truck showed up two hours early. He finished and we went out and
helped. Come to find out, it came exactly when it was supposed to,
just no one thought to let us know, so luckily we were there. Later
that day we stopped by the Carpenters, because we hadn't seen them in
a few weeks, and he was home! So we got to see them and we have
started teaching them again. Later we saw the young man we've been
teaching, and we ended up playing basketball with him. No one was
really keeping score, so shortly before we had to go, we challenged
him to a shoot off. He and Elder Morrow then took turns, and after a
ton of throws, Elder Morrow managed to get it in first, so we won.
Thursday, we had a great district
meeting, then started an exchange. I went with Elder Robinson in his
area and we did a lot of biking and riding on the bus, but we did get
a lot done. At the end of the night Elder Robinson wanted to race, we
were only going a short distance, but his foot slipped, so I won.
Then his tire blew out, so that just added to my victory. Lucky we
were by a bus stop and we were able to take the buses home. Oh, I
almost forgot, at one point we went back home to get more materials,
we stopped and talked with a drunk guy. It was kinda weird because of
some of the things he was saying, and his dog was very excited to see
us. Then the weirdest thing that happened was, he believes that
Romans 16:16 is translated correctly, and then he gave us a peck on
the neck, which was really creepy but I didn't want to get shot by
this guy so we let it happen, then we quickly got to the apartment.
When we got there, I put my head in my hands and thought to myself,
"The apostasy is so real..." But that was our day.
Friday we had some time before we ended
the exchange, they were out of bike patches, so we got on the bus and
took it to the bike shop. It was 10:25 and it didn't open until
10:30, so we walked around the block to kill time. When we got there
it wasn't open, and they had changed their sign so they don't open
until 11:00. We decided to get back on the bus to go back to their
area (because the bike shop is in mine) to talk with people, but by
the time we got back up, it was time to go back down. We got the
patches, went back to the apartment, fixed the bike, and went out to
see some people. So that whole adventure took us about an hour and a
half all together. Well when we ended the exchange, we had lunch
together. When they left we did our weekly planning, Bro. Roy came
and we had dinner with his family for Hunter, and we sang happy
birthday to him.
Saturday morning we were doing a lot of
service and lost track of time, we missed the bus we were supposed to
catch, so we ended up being an hour late to our lesson with the
Adams, but it was still really good. We even had a member come out
with us, they are doing well, still working on some things, but they
have the desire. Then all four of us were fed by the first counselor
in the branch presidency. Afterwards we had to make our way to our
death, oh, I mean to the Relief Society presidents house for our
accidental second meal appointment. It wasn't too bad, but were we
full! We also got transfer news, I'm staying, Elder Morrow is being
sent home. So I will be here for at least 7 more weeks.
Sunday all four missionaries gave
talks, they were pretty good. We got to help teach the third hour,
and that was interesting. But that's the most exciting things that
happened.
Love you all!
Elder Durrant
Great Kentucky Louisville Mission
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