เฮลโล Hello!
This week was awesome!!! We had a goal as a companionship to find 35 interested people this week. We got 48!!! We were grinding hard. It's been so much fun to just be working as much as we can to meet a ton of really interesting people. Including a really large man who said to us what I wrote for my email title today haha. So here are some of the highlights of this full week!
WEST SEATTLE PT. 2
We had another companion exchange with West Seattle this week. I got to be with Elder Justin Kase (coolest name ever) in West Seattle. We put protective paper stuff on a ladies house and he challenged me to a pun battle. I, never being one to back down from such a challenge, accepted and we were pun battling for about 2 hours straight. It was a pun time. We also walked all around the West Seattle area. My watch told me that I walked over 10 miles during the exchange. I've gotten too used to living a life of luxury, being able to drive around in a car. I need to get back into shape. My taste buds are still in Thailand shape, though. We had some barbeque and I told them to give me the hottest sauce they have. That stuff was weak sauce.
OH YOU WERE READY FOR US
We were out tracting (like missionaries tend to do) for 2 hours one night. We didnt see a ton of success, and not even my furious joke making could pick up the mood of exhaustion. We finally got to the last door of the apartment complex. A Hispanic guy opened the door and let us in before we could even explain what we were there for. We walk in and turn the corner and about 10-12 people are bordering the room and sitting down, bibles open on their laps. I was thinking, "wow, it looks like they've been waiting for us." They just listened attentively to our message. And then the guy who let us in started dropping a bunch of bible verses explaining how we were wrong and contradicting the Bible. I am inexperienced in the art of Bible bashing, but I'd like to think that I held my own in the conversation. The coolest part of all of this? Before the lesson, we said that we could have the Spanish missionaries come by another time, and they said no, we would be just fine. After we shared our message and explained how it fit in with everything else, they asked for us to send their phone number to the missionaries! It was a crazy way to end the night.
MUSLIMS
Something I didnt anticipate before I came out on a mission was that I would learn a lot about other religions, not just my own. Specifically, I've been learning a ton about Islam. The flaws are very apparent, just like most religions, but I'll tell you what, muslims know their stuff when it comes to their beliefs. Every time we meet one, they tell us all about their religion. One of them even gave me a Quran haha. Just props to muslims, y'all know about your religion a lot more that a lot of Christians.
LAST THINGS LAST
- Sometimes the best way to get through being tired is to find excitement in just being alive!
- People use the craziest things to decorate the outside of their apartments.
- You're the best! I love you!
เอ็ลเดอร์ อาจจะกลับไปที่เมืองไทยในไม่ช้า (Elder may soon return to Thailand)
Elder Barrett
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