March 24, 2014

Enjoy the pictures and email!

Hey!

As far as our investigators, they are all doing good except Michelle. We met with Michelle again and we found out she started talking with her Pastor and he told her some anti-Mormon things and gave her a lot of things to talk to us about. But it was weird; we were answering all her questions and she was feeling the Spirit, you could see it, and we were bearing testimony to her and she could recognize that it was true but she ended up saying she was just going to stay with her church and didn't want to read the Book of Mormon. It was sad, especially because she was feeling the Spirit. But maybe she will be open another time. She kept the Book of Mormon and our phone number. Someday!

We had quite an adventurous week! We went to 2 towns on Saturday that we had never been to: Stanton and Villisca. Each is famous for their own small town things. Stanton has the largest coffee pot and cup and was settled only by Swedish people, and everything in the town is white. All white houses. It's even called the white town. It's so small that kids were pointing at our car as we tried to see the one less-active that lived there (unsuccessful).

Then in Villisca, we tried for about 45 minutes to find another less-active's house, named Carla (again the GPS will be put to good use haha). We ended up just trying to walk around and try to find it. Well, all we found was a demolished house at the address where she was supposed to live. We went to ask the neighbor because we had invested so much time in trying to find her, and it was a hoarder's house. I got freaked out when birds started to fly out of the boxes around the house and sadly no one was even home. But from their porch we found there was a trailer behind the house that had been demolished. We talked to a guy that lived there to see if he knew where this less-active had moved to, and his first response was "Oh, I thought you were lookin' for the Axe Murderer's house, you can stay there for $600 a night! " (We found out later it actually is 'haunted' and is on one of the lists for the scariest places on earth). He had no idea who this person was and as we were walking away someone comes running from the trailer yelling "Wait I know where Carla lives." He went on to give us some small town directions such "Go left at the school, turn at the old store. That is now a different place but I don't know what. It's a couple houses down behind the other store and it's red and white." Hilarious.

We ended up trying to find it but gave up to find other less-actives. We found 2: one that really didn't want to be found, Christopher, and the other was really cool and so nice and excited to see us. She ended up living right next to Christopher (we found that out after a long time trying to find her address too). She asked if we were trying to find anyone else and we told her we were trying to find Carla. She said: "Oh Carla. She lives across the street!" It was crazy!

Love you!

PICTURES:

Our Villisca and Stanton adventures! And some 9-month mark pictures!