1. Funniest thing that has happened on your mission so far (or one of the funniest)
2. Weirdest situation you've been in
3. Best meal you've had
His response was:
1. When I got punched by a member over and over in the arm while I was
praying as he screamed, "GO PURPLE HAZE GO PURPLE HAZE GO".
2. When a teenage girl we'd given a Mormon.org card to with our number called us that night and tried to flirt with us.
3.
I had a REALLY good roast dinner this week with one of the families in the ward. Super
good!
email from November 3rd:
Hola! How's it going! Just writing you from the coldest climate on
earth! Just a big Brennan Popsicle up here! Lol, the weather has gotten
pretty cold in the last few days, and VERY WINDY, so Elder Innis and I
have been FREEZING! Hahaha, Elder Innis is thin, 6 foot 5 and is from
Sydney, Australia.
We're pretty convinced that God
is just up there chuckling at us. He's sent a boy from the Sonoran
Desert, and a kid from the unbearable heat of Australia to freeze to
death in Northern England. Happy thoughts!
So, this week has
been great. It's been amazing getting to know Elder Innis more. It's so
funny because we have so many things in common that we didn't know.
Like, there was a song playing in the flat underneath us REALLY loud one
night, and I wasn't paying much attention until I started to think,
"Hey, I think I know this song", Elder Innis looked over and saw me
pretty intently trying to listen, and he asked me what I was doing, and I
told him it sounded like my favorite band back home, and he asked what
band it was, and I said, "Oh, it's not a very well known one. It's sorta
a Screamo band, but not quite, and they only released one album quite a
few years ago. They're called Scary Kids Scaring Kids", and he just
paused for a really long time and said, "Straight for the deep end?"
(Which is a song of theirs). And I freaked out! Lol, apparently we both
like that band, and he's the first person I've EVER found who even knows
who they are! Hahaha, so sometimes we sing a few songs under our breath
while we knock houses.
So yeah, that's been awesome!
Spiritual thought for the week.
So,
we've had this investigator W. now for quite a while, and in the
last few weeks he's been absolutely incredible. He's been coming to
church, keeping all his commitments, and trying to break all of his bad
habits. It's been great to work with him. Well, he went out of town, and
then had some dental surgery so we haven't been able to get a hold of
him for about 2 weeks. So this Tuesday Elder Innis and I were on the bus
heading to Bracken Bank, and the bus drove past W.'s street, and I
just had this incredibly strong impression that we needed to try to see
W. I told myself, "No, no. We're not doing that. It makes absolutely
no sense. If he's not in then it messes up our entire schedule because
we'll have to catch another bus, and we've already knocked this
neighborhood before, so it'll just mean we'll have to stand their and
wait for 25 minutes for the next bus. And he's just had surgery, so
he'll be in a lot of pain. Don't bug him. This isn't a spiritual
prompting, you're just thinking of him because you're passing his
house." sooooo, I ignored the prompting, and we went past his bus stop.
Then about 30 seconds later I just got this huge feeling of, "GO TO HIS
HOUSE, LISTEN" so I slammed my hand on the stop indicator, and we got
off and walked back to his house, the whole time with me apologizing to
Elder Innis and just saying I felt like we needed to see W. So, we
get to his door. Windows are closed, lights are off, and there's no
indication he's home. "I knew it", I said to myself. I knocked on the
door annnnnddddd W. answered! Yep he answered the door.... and then
shoved the Book of Mormon and gospel Principles book in my hand and
said, "Sorry bro, it's not for me." and slammed the door. So, yeah. I
got impressed to get dropped.
Lol, it's really interesting,
because I say that story, and it sounds really sad in a way. Like, we
lost our most solid investigator who was scheduled to be baptized in a
few weeks. But really it's just a huge testimony builder to me of
obeying the spirit. I don't know why the spirit decided that needed to happen.
Maybe it didn't want us to waste our time on W. Maybe W. needed
to see the confusion on our faces as he slammed the door in our still
halfway smiling faces, and that'll prompt him to join the church later
on. I don't know - all I do know is that I trust in him and his timing.
Well, yeah. I gotta go! Love you guys loads! Hope all is well!
--Elder Hays
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