Dear Family and everyone else that sees this,
This week was interesting. The last time that I e-mailed was last Wednesday because I couldn't on Monday or Tuesday. Interesting things that happened with me this week.....hmmmm......OH! I met a crazy native American guy the other day! We were just leaving an appointment when this elderly guy beckons to us to come talk to him. I think he may have been drunk however I'm not quite sure. Anyway, we bike over introduce ourselves and ask how we can help him. He tells us that he's "looking for a bible study..."...great....We told him that we don't do bible studies however we'd be happy to talk to him about our church and the book of Mormon and answer any questions that he had. Anyway, we talked to him for a while and then we asked how we could help him, he asked that we pray for him. So we prayed with him right there on the side of the street. Anyway, in the middle of the prayer this guys just breaks down in tears! I was the one that was praying and I started to worry a little bit....After the prayer he kept telling us how he admires us for what we're doing and this whole time tears are just running down his face and he keeps repeating "I'm looking for a bible study"....It was a really cool, really weird, and frankly, flat out strange experience....poor guy...Now that I think about it I think that he was definitely drunk.....
I don't know if I've told you about D. and D. yet....so I'm going to :). My companion and one of his other companions were out tracting and talking to people when they encountered a couple on the street. They went through the whole schpiel and asked if they would be interested in learning more. Unfortunately they said no, however that's usually what happens so they just moved on to the next people that they saw. Anyway, Elder N. (my companion/trainer/dad) and I were on exchanges and Elder N. and the person he was with were tracting and they were knocking on a door and lo and behold, IT WAS THE SAME PEOPLE AGAIN!!! So they once again talked to them, however this time they said that they could come back and were willing to learn more. So Elder N. and I went to their house (this was my first time meeting them) and knocked on the door and the wife answered it and she yelled into the house, quote "D..., your Mormon friends are here!"...It was quite funny....Anyway we got into the house and we talked to D. and D. and they had some really good questions, which we eagerly answered, and afterward they said that we were more than welcome to come back anytime! SWEET!!! So, we recently went back and talked to them some more. This time we extended the invitation for them to go to church, and they said that they would and they invited us to go to their church which Elder N. agreed to....It could be interesting, however I don't know, so I'll be sure to tell you how it went when we go at some point...They're a really nice couple and they told us that they love talking to us and we're always welcome to come back again! So, our discussions have been going really well with them and I'm always excited when we go and teach them.
Another cool investigator that we have is B. He's an older guy who's around high 50's low 60's, and he's interested in other religions. His family has been Baptist for over 100 years, so he said he wasn't looking to be converted or looking for another church, however, because we're missionaries we just take that as a "work harder"....anyway we've gone over to see him a couple times and he's always willing to talk and listen. Elder N. and I just figured that we were going to have to do a little Covert Conversion on this one....mwahahahaha...anyway, we're still working on him and he's reading the Book of Mormon, so we'll just keep going back to see if there's anything that we can do to help him.
Something else........did you know that we get more food offers and dinner offers from investigators and non-members than actual members?! It's ridiculous...oh well...
Elder N. got a piece of Iron stuck in his eye.....That was interesting....One day he starts telling me how his eye is bugging him, and he goes and looks at it in the mirror and there's a tiny bit of something stuck in the iris of his eye. Anyway we try and get it out using a variety of tools, don't ask.....Suffice to say, it didn't work. So we called Sis. T (the mission pres. wife) and asked her what we should do. She told us to try and get it out (which we already did...it didn't work) and when we told her that it wouldn't come out, she told us to wait and DON'T RUB IT!!! She called us back about 5 minutes later and told us that we needed to go to the doctor...great....So we went to the doctor, got into the office, and this is Elder Naisbitts first time at the eye doctor since he was really young so he's a little apprehensive, and the doctor looks in his eye and says he has a small piece of iron in his eye! What?! How on earth that go there I don't know...I guess that means we can't smack each other in the face with iron pans...dang it....anyway, the doctor said it would relatively easy to dislodge, but he would have to numb his eye....ok, no problem....The doctor leaves and comes back with the eye drops and what does he do? HE PUTS IT IN THE WRONG EYE!!! At this point I'm laughing my head off (silently of course) and thinking about how well this doctor was doing to inspire Elder N. confidence.....Anyway, we tell him he put it in the wrong eye and so the doctor puts the numbing stuff in Elder N. iron contaminated eye. Then he pulls out this tool that looks like one of those picks that dentists use to clean plaque off your teeth....At this point, after the doctors mistake with the eye drops, I'm seriously concerned for the safety of my companions face!!! He approaches Elder N. eye with the pick of doom and Elder N. gets this uber-worried look on his face and asks "Whoa! What are you going to do with that?!" The doctor just used it to scrape the surface of his eye and get the piece of iron out of his eye and tells him, "you have a hole in your eye now, but just use these drops and it won't get infected, however it will hurt for about 24 hours..." NO DUH IT WILL HURT!!! You just used a dental pick on my companions eyeball!!! Anyway the doctor did a good job and Elder N. is fully healed from the iron incident....
So that's about all that's happened with me. Thank you for the family letter e-mails! Hope your all doing great, and I now have alot of time to e-mail so e-mails are good now :)
Love,
Elder Lord Byron of the Swamp
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