Hi everybody! Sorry I'm a day late, I
guess p-days don't happen on holidays like labor day.
So this week has been crazy and full of
miracles and weird stuff as always down here in Spo-compton!
I'll start off with some of the crazy
stuff. I got the lights and air pump stolen off my bike, while it was
locked up outside the church. I was really frustrated and it ended up
costing us some proselyting time because we need the lights to get
home safely most every night due to it getting darker sooner.
Fortunately my companion had an extra set for me to use till I can
buy another. But still, very frustrating.
Also, I'm really loving Spokane lately.
I recently found a part of the town that is a super nice neighborhood
and right in the middle of it is a giant forest! It was insane! Like
the parents could just get sick of their children and make them go
camping!
Yesterday I went on exchanges with Elder Doxey. It was a super great experience! Both Elder Doxey and I
became more willing to talk to people and we ended up talking to
pretty much everyone we saw! It was so much fun! We talked to a Viet Nam vet who basically ranted on about how people need to be more
like us missionaries and the end of the world is coming soon. that's
been a strangely common theme among conversations lately -- the end of
the world, the second coming, Armageddon, the Rapture. all of that
fun stuff, that and jw's. Also with Elder Doxey, we were talking to
random people, and this guy started talking about a church being
vandalized and so we offered to help.. sorta.. and then we ended up
at a Rehab church mopping the floors and stuff, it was super random
and funny! They said it was a high person who broke into the church. This town is strange. Everyone seems to be smoking, 2nd marriage,
adopted, recovering drug addict, pretty much everything strange with
the world. While on exchanges, we went to Mcdonalds for dinner and
this random drunk guy decided he wanted to talk about how god is an
alien, like ET stuff. He was very contentious and strange, all sorts
of weird stuff going on.
This Sunday we were so excited! We had
several of our investigators come to church! One was a surprise! She
came because she promised Elder Lyden almost 2 months ago that she
would come and then she felt the spirit so strongly that she cried
all through the Sacrament and during much of the first talk. It was
amazing!
Also this Sunday, I made my first big
greenie mistake! A guy came in asking when church started and then we
told him 1 but he was there at 11, so we gave him a quick church
tour and then I got all excited cause I was feeling the spirit and
gave him a BoM and he got weirded out because we think he was trying
to go to the Pentacostal church across the street. Oops! Hopefully
he'll read the BoM!
One new investigator I'm particularly
excited about is named Worth. She is a little older, and she used to
be a ballet dancer, she has no living family, no children, was never
married. She is really sweet and kind and she was so happy to see us
missionaries again. I guess they stopped seeing her about a year ago.
She has soft a sweet spirit and a high respect for Mormons and
especially missionaries. We're planning to go visit her later this
week. I'm really excited.
The Mitma's are doing great, they
missed church this week, but Sis Mitma was feeling sick. We taught
them the Plan of Salvation and it only took one lesson! It was so
great! We used the diagram that the primary usually uses and wrote
down exactly what we wanted them to know on flash cards and then just
taught simply. It was perfect!
Oh! Random weird stuff again! So we
were teaching a lesson to a member on her porch in the super ghetto
part of town and then this lady comes walking down the street holding
a huge rock and talking way loud to herself and cursing and stuff
about how she was gonna go smash some b's head with a rock and all
sorts of other fun language! It was hilarious once she was out of
sight! (the cops never showed up so we assume nothing happened) but
it was super weird and hilarious!
Allergies have been acting up lately,
which is okay I guess, except that in addition to the pollen a lot of
people have dogs or even worse cats and sometimes I can barely see or
breath because of it.
That's about everything. I just want
you (Mom and Dad) to know that I really appreciate the way you raised
me, the examples you are through the way you live, and the love you
show for me and my siblings. Coming out here has helped me to realize
just how great I had it at home and how much other people lack some
of the basics of the things that help families be happy. All of these
people just lack that foundation of love that I was so blessed to
have because of you. So, Yeah, thank you
Much love and prayers to everyone!
-Elder Bryce Griffin
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