40 days!

Yup, I had my 40th day yesterday. That means I only have 692 days left.😳 I look forward to every one of them! That's crazy that you have an Elder from NC. I know where Highpoint is and I know(ish) the Paige's. He was put in as stake president the first Sunday I had here. He lives in Kannapolis so he's not in my area. The Kannapolis elders helped him clean out the garage. We got a ping pong table from the garage and set it up in the gym. We played ping pong most of p-day last week and plan on doing the same thing today. So you can tell the elder (Elder Baughan) that I might be playing on his uncle's ping pong table!😃
 I had a really crazy dinner appointment this week. The family we were eating at was a really nice normal family, but they made chili...really, really, really spicy chili. They put a bunch of chipotle powder in it. They felt bad about it, so they let me put a bunch of sour cream in it. At first they asked if we liked spicy stuff, and Elder Nelson really does, and I wasn't going to say anything, but he told them I'm not a fan, so they got the sour cream out and I bet almost half of the bowl was sour cream. 😫 It was still REALLY spicy. They had a good conversation, but I couldn't concentrate on a lot of the conversation because I was restraining myself from screaming...needless to say I drank four and a half glasses of water but I am proud to say, I finished the whole bowl!!! Elder Nelson didn't even finish his!
 On Wednesday we had exchanges with the zone leaders 😬. And I took over my area as well. Elder Moutz came over to Concord and we did pretty well. We were walking to see Homer and we saw a lady outside and we started to talk to her, and before we knew it, we were on her porch, teaching the entire Restoration message, and inviting her to be baptized. She said yes!! But we haven't been able to contact her since...so I don't know if it's going anywhere. We'll see. We then found an inactive member named Mike and we raked some of his leaves and talked to him for a while. He's a really cool guy he just hasn't been to church for a while. He's in a transition state so he doesn't know if he's coming to church but he thanked us for reminding him to support his niece, who is on a mission in France so it was a pretty good talk with him.
I really like Elder Mautz. He's a lot like me. We had a good long discussion on which books we have read and movies we like. So, fun information, Orson Scott Card is in the mission, and he occasionally he has the missionaries over for dinner! I wish I can go to that area. Other fun news, Friedrich, from the Sound of Music, lives in my area! Crazy. Anyways, I like Elder Mautz but it's kinda hard to act normal around him because I always feel I am being scrutinized. Anyway, interesting story. We were sitting on this guy's porch and talking and a guy walked past and waved to us. I nodded in response, I didn't want to wave because I didn't want to distract from the lesson...I should have waved. He started yelling at me calling me an ungrateful, preppy, discriminative, white boy. He said some other things that I would rather not disclose at this time.
 We gave a blessing to a schizophrenic as well. She was a little off, but was normal enough to not deter us from giving her a blessing. She said when we ended the blessing, she felt a bad presence leave her.
Church was really good yesterday. We had the primary program and the Spirit was definitely there. It was interesting to see so many grown men cry. 😭 We had a good rest of the Sunday and a good dinner at the Nunn's with Homer and then we went to Ben Brown's birthday party! Nicole is having a boy! We stayed until everyone but Nicole, Ben, and Nicole's brother Colton left. We watched a little football (shh 🤐) and then taught the Restoration to Colton. Ben taught half of the lesson and Nicole gave a really good closing prayer. I am so happy with them. They are progressing well and I am excited for their future.
What is up with BYU? Losing to Missouri? Really? They only lose the important games don't they?
The people here are good, but it is hard to find anyone. The people that are willing to listen to us are so noncommittal it is scary. They will set up a time for us to meet, then when we go, they either don't answer the door, aren't even there, or say that something came up. All the people that would keep commitments are already content with life and don't want to talk to us. Eesh.
No more bicycle accidents to report, we got the car on Wednesday and are super stoked about it. The new church stance really hasn't made an impact on our investigators or anyone else either. It is a big thing in Charlotte, but the church's presence isn't really strong there anyways.
I heard about the Paris thing, man people in this world are just messed up. I see more and more of it everyday out here, but we have to realize that most people are good and would really help someone in need.
Sorry, this week I don't have any pictures, I'll make sure to have some next week.
I love y'all and hope everything is going well!