Amen........Oh!!....

07.04.11

This week flew by it seemed like. We had some cool things happen. First off yesterday Kerry-Ann, Yolanda and Nakeeta came to Church yesterday. That was really awesome. We had so many people at church that we had to sit in the hall. It was a good sacrament meeting. Then after church we went and saw Hector, he was someone that we found earlier in the week. We went and saw him and found out that he is married and they are both from Honduras. Well it turns out that his wife was visiting with missionaries back in Honduras and that she used to go to the Church all the time and she prayed and knows that the church is true. She was really excited for us to find them. They attend a different church but not for really any special reason. Hector told her he kinda had a problem with the Book of Mormon and she was trying to teach it to him. Then he brought up some small concerns to us but after we explained things to him he was very open. So we are excited to start to teach and work with them. We had dinner at the Rhones yesterday which was really good then we went and saw Kerry-Ann. She accepted her baptism date for this Saturday. We got there and asked her if she was ready and she was like ya but why does it have to be in the middle of the week? We were like what? we would never have it in the middle in the week. She had put in her phone on her calender the 12th of July instead of the 9th. It was pretty funny I guess you had to be there because now that I read it over its not that funny written down, so use your imagination.

On Tuesday we had just gotten done teaching Nakeeta a lesson. She was saying a prayer, Nakeeta reminds me of the low talker from Seinfeld. She was saying a prayer and it was really quiet, elder Montgomery and I were really leaning in trying to here. All the sudden I hear Elder Montgomery with a loud AMEN and I look up about to say it to but she is still in the middle of the prayer and I look at Monty and his face priceless, his eyes were big and mouth open and he looked at me really fast like crap, then threw his head back down Then for the rest of the prayer I'm trying to keep quiet while laughing. It was funny. Wednesday I taught district meeting. Let me set up this next story, everyone here usually always has some sort of an accent and we always say to each other from dumb and dumber when Lloyd is asking for directions from the Austrian lady "That's a lovely accent you have......New Jersey?" Well we did some finding. We were knocking doors and this girl answers and we asked her where she was from and she said Austria. I immediately looked over at Elder Montgomery and started laughing to myself because all I could think of was the beginning part of dumb and dumber and the line where Lloyd is like " Oh Austria, well good day mate....lets put another shrimp on the Barbee" I was trying my very best to get it out but I just couldn't it was too much. She was super nice too and was laughing with us and we had a good chat with her. Well On Thursday for my birthday the Carters took us to a place called Grand Old House that does a Pasta night every Thursday. We go there and are waiting for the Carters, and we see Austria, she works there so we say hi to her and talk to her for a little bit. The Chad and Megan get there and the lady they talk to says that they are all full and we were like nooooo!!. But she was like let see how long it will be so she goes to Austria and asks here and I'm behind the lady and I hold up a thumbs up and smile and Austria gets us the best table in the house it was awesome.
We did some more finding on Saturday and the second door that we knocked a group of people was having a bible study. I looked at Elder Montgomery and he was getting ready to walk a way but it was super hot so I was like Ok can we join you? They said yes and we walked right into the lions den, They were all from different churches and were asking us all kinds of questions, well the phone rings and Montgomery gets up and answers it in the other room, I was flying with out a wing man and the shots kept coming but I will be honest I was holding my ground and I was doing a fair amount of teaching while answering the questions I could tell they were surprised by how much i new and about the things I was telling them. Well Monty comes back is there for maybe 15 seconds and right as I'm about to hand things to him the phone rings again. But long story short we gave them a Book of Mormon and are going to check back with them. A little bit later we met a guy named Wayne and I thought he said Rain so the whole time i was calling him Rain until Monty asked him what his name was. We also started talking to a lady that was walking on the street and we were walking with her talking to her. Her phone rang and she didn't recognize the number so I was like I ll answer it for you so i did and I was like may I ask who is calling and she was like its her MOTHER!!! it was pretty funny.