September 20, 2010

Hey mom!!

Ya this week was pretty good actually. I liked it a lot. I had a really cool experience when i was on companion exchanges. We were just tracting some houses and we knocked on this ladies house and her door was open and she yelled. "are you the mormons or jehovahs"? SO we told her and she came to the door. Well her screen door was kinda broke so elder Alonso offered to fix it, so as he was fixing it she let me inside and i began talking with her. I found out that missionaries had passed by a bunch of times but she had never let them in. So i asked her, well what made you let us in? And she looks at me and says, "well you have red hair, and i really like red hair" (Oh by the way this lady is in her 70's or so) And so i was just like wow well thank you. (So then i thought well man maybe the Lord used me to get into her house.) So we kept talking and we started talking about the church and the apostasy and restauration and everything. And the spirit was super strong, and she just looks down and says "I have never heard this before." And so at the end we invited her to here the lessons and have the missionaries continue to come by, and she just paused for like a minute looking down, and says ya they can come by next week cuz this week im gonna be out of town. So that was a really cool experience that i had that i liked :)

Also, yes i fixed my bike thank goodness!! So we started riding bikes and then the next day.... it got stolen!! hahaha!! Awesome i know :) But Luckily, one of the elder's that went home left his bike, the only thing is that i have to buy new peddles for it haha. So i think i will doing that today.

Also yesterday we ate dinner with the son of Bruce R. McKonkie. Who is actually the stake president of our stake. So that was really cool. After we ate dinner we just talked and asked him questions and he shared with us a bunch of things so that was awesome. Oh ya, so we had stake conference yesterday as well. It was pretty cool. I think it was for like 2 other states as well. Like all the stakes in those states. Cuz it was broadcasted. And Elder Perry and Elder Ucthdorf talked to us. As well as 2 other people but Im not quite sure of there names. So ya this past week was pretty fun and exciting I definately enjoyed it :)

Last P-day we went to the dance place but its a specialty dance. Its a brazilian fighting dance called Capoeira. Or something like that. i heard there are crazy videos on youtube so you can look and see what we were TRYING to do. haha. Its really cool cuz one of the ZL's here is from Brazil and there is a member that is actually in charge of the class and owns it and stuff. So he did a session with us for free and everything. It was really fun.

Well i guess that is all for this week. I love you all and thanks for everything you do :)

Elder Kingsley