Weird Week (15 August)

This week was a different paced week, even slower than usual, if you could believe that. We did service at the Corner Table again this week. There was an interesting lady there who confronted us asking for money. I think I may have a phobia of women with beards (she had a pretty darn visible one) because I froze up and I couldn't get a word out. That isn't the first time that's happened either...interesting.

Anyway that day we biked a pretty far way over to a older lady's house and finished trimming her yard, then biked back. By the time we got back home and got showered, our dinner appointment picked us up. It was with the Setzers. They are probably one of my favorite families in the Ward (not that I have any favorites of course), but they are the family I talked about with all the dogs. They had only got rid of one puppy since I had been there last (which was a month ago, can you believe I've been in this area for a month already! I can't) so they had almost as many puppies this time, but they were twice the size! So that was a blast. They enlisted Elder Garrett's help with giving the puppies shots, and they tried to get me to help out, but I couldn't, I just looked away. 

Wednesday we just biked all over tarnation and didn't get much done or meet any people. 

Thursday was so boring. We were asked to clean out our phones before zone conference, because they were switching services and giving us new phones. So Thursday we got up and did studies, then we did weekly planning. That went until 12:30, we had lunch till 1:30 then I started the daunting task of cleaning out the phone. There were so many contacts in there it was crazy. I had to go through and look at each contact, see if they were still in our records, see if the phone number was still valid and so forth. I did that from 1:30 to 5:30 when dinner picked us up, we were gone at dinner until 7:15. When we got back I started cleaning out the phone again and I finished at 9:15. So I guess I had a busy day, I was doing something I was supposed to be doing the whole time, but it was definitely something I would rather not spend all my time on. 

That night the Spanish elders came and spent the night, then we got up early the next morning, piled in the car, and drove to Mooresville for zone conference. It was a combined conference, with three zones in attendance. President taught about how we might not have it easy, but we should never give up, because when we are rejected and pushed away, we are walking side-by-side with Jesus Christ himself. He also emphasized the online proselyting a lot more and we were encouraged even more to use the technology we have. There were a lot of good ways to use it shared, and hopefully Elder Garrett and I will catch that fire. After the conference, the Spanish elders dropped us off at a restuarant, where we had dinner with two less actives. Then after that we biked home. 

Yesterday was a pretty good day though. We of course went to church, and PEC went very well, as well as all the other meetings. We went home, had lunch. Then biked all round tarnation and couldn't find anyone to talk to.  We were on our way home when we saw that in downtown Newton there was a big car show going on. On the main streets of downtown were hundreds of old, antique automobiles. They had closed off all of downtown to traffic and just a bunch of people were meandering around, looking at the cars and buying snacks and stuff with vendors lined up on the street. It was pretty packed. So we locked our bikes up and tried to talk to people, but trying to talk to these people was like trying to talk to Easton when he is playing a video game. It was virtually impossible, they just didn't want to talk to us. We did see a lot of cool cars though😉. Then we went home and had dinner, then biked around to end the night. We were able to stop and talk to this one lady named Lizz, and she seemed very interested in what we had to say, so we taught her, and we friended her on Facebook and we are going to teach her over Facebook tonight! So we'll see how that goes. I really hope it goes well. 

Well, that's about it for this week. We've had some fun today at the church playing basketball and eating some delicious Burger King! Hope y'all have a great week! Love y'all!

Elders Garrett and Huff boating?