07/20/2020 Little chicken, big spider

Hey 

This week was pretty great. I turned 21 months old. Wild to think in just a few months I will be home. This transfer also finishes up next week. We'll see what happens. Time flies, y'all. 

This week's events have been pretty eventful. I went down to Hope on an exchange and had a very interesting experience pulling up to a house of a woman they had an appointment scheduled for. As we pulled up, a man on the other side of the street started calling out to us and waving his arms. We cautiously engaged in a conversation. Many things were discussed, most of which I know not of because it was pretty hard to understand him. In the middle of it all he did try to call some phone number, and his phone said the number was not receiving calls at this time. Then he had us call the number on our phone. Turns out it was the Hope Police Department non-emergency number.... The police department blocked this guy's phone number. Imagine what you have to do to have that happen.... anyways he asked the police if it was alright for us to give him a Bible (a transaction we had not previously discussed), and they said sure, and we promptly gave him one with our names written on it, at his request. 

He stole our pen too.

Also, someone we met last week street contacting is super cool. We haven't been able to see him again yet but we did give him a call and he brought up a movie he somehow ran into on Facebook: Baptists at our Barbecue, an extremely obscure Latter-day Saint comedy movie. Luckily I have seen the movie once (Elder Probst had not) a long time ago, so we weren't completely confused at him bringing it up. I like to consider seeing it, and remembering it, a miracle. Miracles have not ceased. 

We got to drive down to the legendary town of Billstown.... close to the equally legendary town of Delight..... actually Glen Campbell was born there so there's that. We went and helped clear a massive tree in the Billstown cemetary. Basically in the middle of a forest. It was my first time in the Glenwood branch area. The branch doesn't have a single town with a population over 4,000 within it's boundaries. 

On another note, someone I taught in Benton got baptized! It was super cool hearing about his story. Daniel was someone the sisters had been teaching for a little bit before I had got there, but after a transfer or so they referred him to us. We were not ever able to do solid lessons cause his life was changing a lot at the time, but we did have a lot of good porch conversations. Soon before I got transferred he moved and we lost contact with him, but a month or so ago he reached back out to the missionaries and this time was prepared to receive the ordinance of baptism. I am soo excited for him! I know he will be a great influence in the Benton ward. 

Have a blessed week! 

Pictures
1) I won in the Pirate minigolf game we did for District P Day last week. We learned a lot about Blackbeard. Being a pirate is alright with me. 

2) we filmed some stuff for a video again. The Hot Springs water tower, recently painted, is definitely one of the best water towers. 

3) the little chicken. It is soooooo cute

4) the big spider. It is soooooo not cute


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