Pho

So, this week wasn't too shabby. We served at the Corner Table twice this week, Tuesday and Wednesday. That was fun. On Wednesday we also helped a member in the Ward with some yard work and we ate dinner with him. After that we went to the church and had a meeting with all the

Ward missionaries, then after that we went home. So a pretty different day Wednesday, but it's good to get out of the monotony sometimes, especially during bike week. 

Thursday we both did Facebook posts and I had fun with mine. I talked about football since the NFL season started that day and how it can compare to us needing to be on the winning team, God's. That was fun, a lot of people complimented me on it at church yesterday so that's good. 

Anyway, that night the Spanish Elders came over and that's always fun. The next morning we got up and got ready for zone meeting. We were getting ready when someone knocked on the door. It was a lady that lives next door and she told us to not be so loud going up and down the stairs. Really? We weren't being loud or anything, just going up and down the stairs like regular. We are always hearing huge loud thumps from that way anyway. That's the second time they've complained that we were too loud, and we were just walking around like normal. Oh well. They always have the cops over at that apartment, so I don't know if they are all there. Zone meeting was good. We talked a lot about the Doctrine of Christ. I thought what a senior missionary said was pretty interesting. She said that repentance wasn't just changing from bad to good, it could also be changing from good to better. I thought that was interesting and pretty thought provoking. We also talked about being master planners, finders, teachers, etc. The zone leaders dressed up as ninjas and did a little fight to start their training. 

No wonder people think missionaries are weird. We are just a bunch of crazy 18-19-20-year-olds living and working together with little adult supervision and guidelines that ask us not to do things that normal 18-19-20-year-olds usually do. Of course we're going to be weird in one way or another. Anyway it was good. 

Speaking of weird, I went on Exchange with Elder Galbraith after the meeting. He's a good kid though, he means well.  He has served in Newton in the past so basically the whole exchange was looking for people he used to teach, which was good. On Saturday we taught this guy, Don Dollarhide at the church. We are pretty excited for him. Last Sunday a member in our ward came up to us and talked to us about Don. Don is his brother in law and has investigated the church on and off now for years. He now is having some trouble in his life and wants to investigate again, more seriously this time. So we got his number from the member and called him on Friday. He didn't answer, but 10 minutes later he called back! He said he had a question for us then he talked about how he was driving in Conover, which he said he knows like the back of his hand, and got lost. He kept on driving, trying to find himself, and he ended up in the church parking lot. He asked me if that was a sign from God. I told him that sure was! We set up an appointment for the next morning at the church and when we got there (10 minutes early) he was already there! We taught him and he accepted it. We set a date for him to be baptized on October 29th! He also came to church the next day. We have an appointment with him this week and we'll see how things go from there. 

After we taught him we biked home. Elder Galbraith had gotten in contact with a guy he used to teach and became good friends with, John Yang. John picked us up in his nice BMW and took to a place called Saigon Garden for lunch. It is a Vietnamese restaurant and we all got eggrolls, spring rolls, and Pho. It was pretty good. John's a cool guy, he didn't get baptized because of his parents, but he still goes to Institute and the singles Ward sometimes. After we ate he got us some bubble tea (doesn't have tea in it) which was super good. I got the coconut flavor. He then drove us all the way to Denver to drop off Elder Galbraith and pick up Elder Garrett and then took us home. 

Yesterday was a good Sabbath day. Don was at church, Elder Garrett and I got to bless the sacrament. I haven't done that in a long time. Then during third hour we were responsible for filling the baptismal font for a boy's baptism. That's a lot of water. Took up almost all of the time we had to fill it up. Then as we were filling it up the mom asked us to sing some hymns between when her boy got baptized to when he was ready. So we did. We thought we would only have to sing one song, but we ended up singing four. It's a good thing we're both musically talented🎶🎶🎶🎶 They really liked it, I was glad we were able to do that. 

Anyway, that's about the week. I'm sad BYU kept up at the one thing they are consistent at: losing to Utah. I hope that they fix things up, if they don't, they are going to have one rough season. Hope y'all have a good week! Love ya!