Hey everybody!
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you
feel like you didn't do anything, but you
look back and you were actually pretty successful? Well, it was one of those weeks for me. I honestly
feel like I didn't get much accomplished
over this past week, but when we reported on the lessons that we had this week I saw that we did pretty good. We only
got shut out on Saturday, only because all of
our plans somehow fell through. I was
kinda upset at that because we had Saturday scheduled to be a great day with a lot of lessons and staying
busy. Obviously things don't ever go as
planned and no one answered their door or phone.
On the bright side, we had at least one lesson every day this past week which is good for this area. Over the past
month it has been really scattered and we
would go days without having a lesson. Thankfully
things are turning around. Speaking of which, the end of the transfer is coming up and my district leader is
going home. So I'm going to be getting a
new district leader pretty soon and there will be a new face in our district. I don't expect anything to change for
me and Elder Mortimer, but anything can happen.
I actually have two funny stories for you this
week. The first one is just ridiculous.
So, me and Elder Mortimer walk into a CVS because it's the afternoon and we didn't have anything planned
so we figured we would try and get some
errands done. No big deal. Well, we walk in and are looking for the stuff we need when this guy walks up to and
asks us how we are doing. Right when he started
talking the spirit instantly left, and
was left there thinking, 'Oh boy, here we go.' And I was exactly right. Instantly he tries to start bible
bashing us, but it wasn't really bible
bashing at all. He just pulled out some random scripture from Revelations and used that as his basis for everything!
That was the only scripture that he used, the
rest of it was all conspiracy theories.
He used it as a basis to try and tell us that Obama was the antichrist, The devil mimics God (which is why we were
being tricked by the devil), the government is going to kill all the Christians, they
will hide all the bodies (he tried telling us that they are going to do a mass grave and puts all the
bodies into containers. He pulls up a
picture of these big containers and tells us that they will shove 4 bodies into each of them. I instantly shut him
down there because I knew exactly what those
containers were. I told him, "You're
lying. I know exactly what those containers are used for. Those are industrial sized containers and they are
used by basically every single warehouse
and construction site in America." He changed the subject right after I said that.), then the
government will put trackers in
everybody, basically the holocaust for Christians. He then pulled up a dollar bill and started going into Illuminati, that where I called it and I
was done with him. The best part of the whole thing was at one point we were talking about the spirit and
how we can talk with God. He says,
"What does the spirit tell you about me? It probably says that I'm full of crap." Then Elder Mortimer spits
back at him, "Well, I don't need the
spirit to tell me that!" Funniest. Thing. Ever.
The next story is when me and Elder Mortimer
finished dinner with a member and we head
back to the car. We were talking for a little bit and for some reason I got in the car and forgot I
needed to back him up. (It's a rule for
us that while the driver is in reverse, the companion needs to be outside the car backing him up. Makes sense but
it's just annoying.) So I get back out and start
walking to the back of the car when I
hear Elder Mortimer. I look through the the back window and he is screaming and flailing his arms around! I run up to
the window and his eyes are huge and he nearly
had a heart attack. He tells me,
"You were sitting on a Yellow Jacket!" Apparently it somehow got underneath me when I was sitting down. When I got
out, it was still there and Elder
Mortimer heard some buzzing. He saw it on the seat and was watching it twitch. It suddenly starts flying around and
heads straight for his face! Elder Mortimer was
already strapped in by his seat belt,
couldn't go anywhere, and he couldn't find anything to smack it with. That's why he started screaming and
flailing his arms. Luckily he got the
window down and swooshed it outside before it stung him, cause this guy was mad! I'm just glad that this
thing didn't sting my butt while I was
sitting on it!
Well,
adding to the list of stories that has happened on my mission. I now have two more funny ones!
From
Elder Biehn
