Well, this was a crazy week!
Probably the most insane one of my mission! Specifically one event.... It was
sooo crazy!!!
So, we were out tracting last
Wednesday, and we were knocking on door after door. we came up to one house,
and the door was cracked open a couple of inches. As we approached, we noticed
it was dark inside, and we could hear the noise of somebody doing something in
the kitchen. It sounded like they were chopping something to prepare for
dinner. We knocked on the door and there was no response. So we rang the
doorbell and the chopping stopped. We hear this "who is it?" - a
man's voice. We call back in that we're the missionaries, and he invites us in.
As we poked our heads in, his head came from around the corner to the kitchen
and he smiled and invited us to take a seat and he told us he'd be right with
us. We sat on the couch that backed up against the front wall, and waited as he
finished chopping the meat he was preparing, then he finally came around the
corner. He had this HUGE cleaver in his hand and an apron on that was covered
in blood. He kind of stood there for a moment, and the look on his face was all
I needed to know this was NOT the right place to be. I turned to look at Elder
Ray to see if he was getting the same vibe, and he wasn't there. He had totally
dipped! so, here I am, alone with this guy in his house, and it's time for me
to stick with my companion. I grabbed my backpack and got up, but by then, the
cleaver man had moved around the other couch in the room and was between me and
the door. So, I turned and threw my backpack as hard as I could at the window
and, thanks to the 6 Books of Mormon I had in it, it broke through. I then made
a break for it and dove out the window after my backpack. And I ALMOST made it!
As I was going through the window, the dude caught my ankle!! I slammed down on
the windowsill, and took a few nasty cuts from the broken glass (which are all
bandaged okay now). So, now, I'm REALLY freaking out, and just scrambling
trying to get out. I'm here thrashing just clinging to this rosebush outside,
my hands getting torn to bits, and this guy is just relentless, trying to get
me back inside his house, with this monster grip on my ankle and he's just
standing there, yanking hard, just pulling on my leg! Kind of like how I'm
pulling on yours now.
For real though, it was a crazy
week. We heard last Thursday that our mission is loosing two of our zones to
the Richmond mission so they can create a new Chesapeake mission! It's pretty
crazy! We're still awaiting news of how that's going to impact us as
missionaries, but we're excited.
My brakes on my bike gave out this
week. So, after riding a couple days without brakes using grass, hills and my
feet to stop me, I decided I needed to increase my safety rating a bit, so the
Spanish Elders took us to this ho-dunky bike shop in the middle of the city
that gave me some brakes for free! haha. It was pretty sweet. So, I replaced my
brakes, fixed Elder R's brakes, because they were also having trouble, and
oiled both of our chains for smoother riding. It was definitely a week of
repairs!
Our District had our first Weekly
Power Hour, too. It was pretty fun! Pretty much, Every Saturday at 1, we're
picking one of our areas, and just all tracting somewhere in it. It was way
cool! We got 3 hours worth of tracting done in one hour! Next week it's our
area. We're excited for that :)
We have one investigator named J who
we're really excited for right now. He had a job as a long-distance truck
driver, but he quit so he could have more time to meet with us! And he now has
a new job (thanks to the employment services out here) and is getting ready for
baptism! It's amazing to see the faith of some of these people out here as they
make such great changes in their life. A couple weeks ago, some traveling
pastor gave him some DVDs that were very weird, and the first thing he did was
invite us over to watch them with him! He asked us "From the standpoint of
the true Gospel, what do you think about this?" It was a great opportunity
to simply ask him if he felt the Spirit. And He answered his own question from
there. It was so amazing.
well, My times up. I gotta run, but
I hope everyone has a great week, and Rachel, I hope you enjoyed the Temple!
I'm so excited for you! I thought of you as we were planning last Friday:
"Oh! She's in the temple right now!!!" Love you!
-Matthew
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