Week 91

This week was a lot like Elder Hollands conference talk from last April yo

This week was nuts, it was like a giant high-five train, and at the beginning all the high fives are really solid and pump you up for more, so you really get going, then at the middle they get a little

worse, and it's ok, because you're still all excited, then by the end it's totally turned and every once in a while someone misses the high-five and smacks you in the face.  Pretty exciting.

Monday y'all heard about already, but it was great.

Tuesday was cool, We did some last minute shopping for my Jamaican friend Elder Johnson, then took him to the mission home and sent him off... I'll miss him a ton, definitely a friend for life. I have Elder Gomez now!! He's awesome, and he plays the clarinet and speaks Spanish AND English. now when people try and lie that they only speak Spanish, we have them caught. we went to the habit really fast with a bunch of the new elders in our zone for lunch, then took bags to everyone's  apartment and got all his stuff inside, then we went to dinner with the Feiks, then went out

to teach Frank. He tried to get all "saved by grace" again, and we managed to leave on the note that he cannot know if what we are saying is true without praying to know the truth about the restoration. It was a great lesson if I do say so myself, Elder Gomez knows his stuff. 

Wednesday was great too. We went to service, then afterwards finished studies and ate a quick and early dinner, then went and taught James and Geraldine. Guess what? THEY'RE GOLDEN.  James read all the way to 2 Nephi already and has marked the heck out of the Book of Mormon

that we gave him.   SO cool. They are on date still for the 15th of April. next we taught David

and Hailee. there were these really obnoxious other kids that came early for mutual that night, and they were I guess riding a scooter around in the hallway while we taught in a classroom, so we had no idea, then after our lesson, we heard a member talking about how we are terrible missionaries because we didn't do anything to stop them. Well sorry we were helping two recent converts learn about the gospel like we are supposed to be doing, lol. Brother Kelley laughed and told her she doesn't know the elders she's talking about, then he came with us to teach a lesson to Luis, and he was

frustrated because he thinks that this isn't true because God won't answer him. We had a good talk and committed him to put more into getting an answer, it was cool.

Thursday we had service once again, then we finished studies and did some more service, then we ate and then went to tract a street we had a referral at. It was cool, because we started with the first house on this really long cul-de-sac, and once we went all the way around the entire thing, we had one house left. I told elder Gomez before the door opened that we were going to get a new investigator at this house, and low and behold... Norman Machinery. He is the man. He was super prepared and was

really curious about what the book of Mormon teaches about the world today. He is learning

Arabic right now so that he can read the Quran and learn what they said about the world today. He committed to read and pray and be baptized if he learns that it's true. Neato. Then that night I don't

remember what happened.

Friday we did weekly planning, went and taught a Kid name Samra, and found out he's 19, so they got a solid new investigator, then that night we taught the Cambodian family. I ended up teaching them by myself in Cambodian, and they promised to commit to praying every morning and every

night, so we are making steady progress. then we stopped by a lady named Barbara Egan who has dementia and her daughter is inactive. brother Kelley was with us at both of those, and everyone we meet loves him, and in turn loves us. Last, we went by Frank. wow. let me tell you a thing... He was

not happy with us. He thinks that we are telling him that Joseph smith is greater than Jesus Christ. "I found Jesus already, screw this joe smith guy" a flaming and totally hilarious argument ensued between frank and brother Kelley, and I have never seen a man say so confused about religion.

I don't have time to give all the details, but we made his Philippine girlfriend very very angry when we got bold and testified, the spirit was testifying hardcore, and they were too angry to recognize

it... very sad.  No more Frank it seems.

Saturday was good, I don't really remember what happened except our Lesson with James and Geraldine. They are going to pull a cold turkey and quite smoking after 40 years!!! They're going strong!!! and they've both read a ton now!! the rest of the day was kind of lame, but we got

to eat dinner with brother and sister barber, that was cool.

Sunday was weird. James and Geraldine didn't come to church.... we were really sad. Luis did though!! But just to tell us that he doesn't want to meet with us anymore... we were really sad at that point. A guy came in off the street during gospel principles, then the class got way off topic and

really weird about how old we will be when we're resurrected and stuff with the millennium, it was really bad. He walked right back out the door after, I was really upset with the GP teacher.

We were incredibly blessed this week, I can't believe it. We had some sad things happen and lost three or four investigators that we had really high hopes for, so it was rough in that sense, but we are

continuing to work in  faith and teach teach teach. All is well in Union City. I love you all!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Tolman