12/10/2018 Why you always lyin'?

Hello there

Today's email going to be a little shorter than usual because today isn't really a P-Day. The Memphis side Christmas party is this week on Thursday, and that is our official P-Day. We have just been allotted a little time today to send emails because we won't have too much time on Thursday. 

Anyways, this past week has been fairly routine. And by routine I mean bike troubles. Elder Perkins popped a tube this week. A pretty sizable glass shard punctured the tire. We had an extra inner tube, so we're all good now. 

We also met some cool people this week. President Hansen is really stressing getting new people/investigators to church, so that's what we have been extending as an invitation for a lot of people we have talked to. One man named Mario (we think. I personally heard Maria, although that's a girl's and it may have been his accent) seemed really set on going to church. He said he hadn't found a good one and asked us where ours was, what time we met, and said he'd be there before we even extended the invitation. He seemed super solid. 

He didn't show up. 

Also the phone number he gave us was either wrong or I recorded incorrectly. We'll be going down to his place soon to catch up with him. 

We invited many people these past few weeks to church, and quite a few said they would go and had the means to get there, but we have not got anyone to church. We may have to change our approach. I don't know. We send reminders, call them, stop by their house, and all that, but to no avail. 

Continuing with Light the World, we have been doing quite a bit of service. We helped a guy shovel gravel that he was using to make a walkway. He was pretty cool and also hadn't found a good church. We invited him and taught him a little and he said he'd continue doing research and go to church. He didn't show up either. 

We also pushed a man's broken down car out of traffic. We weren't able to help fix the car, but at least we got him out of the street. 

We also went to the food shelter place again. This time we talked to people quite a bit. One guy really wanted to talk to me and I was thinking it was going to be about God (he said "higher intelligence"), but then he started talking about people being zapped into UFOs and cows being turned into hybrids. Interesting... I do like conspiracy theories, but it just caught me a little off guard. 

[Elder Matt's answers to my questions] I do get along with the comps. They are funny. Transfers are next week, this Saturday I will learn who my new comp is. 
We eat fine. A lot of meals using ground beef. For lunch I usually just have a sandwich or rice or something. When we go to the university of Memphis we do eat at their cafeteria and get taco bell or chick fil a though. Our monthly funds and lack of member meals simply cannot support frequent visits to fast food though. District meetings are once a week, and there are two sets of elders (both trips rn) and two sets of senior couples. Although one set is often elsewhere in the mission. They are the mission self reliance missionaries, so they help train the wards and branches in the mission on running the SR programs.

Pictures:
1) at the food shelter manning the trash

2) the saddest park I have ever seen.

3) the Star Wars poster we have. I have no idea why we have this

4) we just hung out with the other companionship in our district last P-Day: Elders Patterson, Deushane, and Steele (Steele was in the MTC with me. It's cool having a fellow greenie in my district). Elder Perkins did not want to be in the photo. 

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