In this picture, Jaxon & his companion walked through this cemetery, and it reminded him of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," so he pulled a Thriller dance move, ha ha.
Hey Mates!!
This week was a little crazy!! all this week we had pretty much zero success.. we knocked on so many doors.. my legs are killing me.. haha! the only investigators we had were phil and vilna as i have told you before, and we were about to go visit them, so we called to make sure it was okay for us to come over to their house and teach them. Vilna picked up the phone and sounded really angry for some reason.. which she never is angry. She's always really really nice and happy.. so she told us its not a good idea for us to come over because phil and vilna are going through a separation.... i was so upset because they were the coolest people ever.. they said to call them in a few weeks to see how things are going and hopefully theyll figure everything out.. i was so sad because i looked forward to visiting them every monday night.....
the last few days have been wonderful because the sun decided to do its job and make me warm and happy.. haha i realized when the sun is out and we actually see the blue sky that people are a lot happier and smiley, we went knocking on a sunny day and everyone that spoke to us was really nice, they didnt want to hear our message but they actually wanted to get to know us, which was rare because people here are really careless usually. a couple days ago when it was sunny again we were walking up to this house, and while we were walking up to the door we heard the tv, it was really loud and it was obvious that it was a football match going on. i knocked on the door and it was this trashier looking man smoking a fag :) (cigarette). he opened the door and opened his eyes really wide and smiled and said "aw, you know where im at lads! its the chelsea & liverpool match!" i laughed and said oh who's winning, and he said who do you think..? like i was stupid.. haha and i just said chelsea?? and he said youre right on mate!! and we laughed and i said go chelsea and he was really happy that he thought i was a chelsea fan.. even though i like man U! I'd get shot out here if people knew i liked manchester united.. haha but we left his home by me giving him a card and he was really happy we talked to him. after we knocked on his neighbors door they didnt answer, as soon as we were walking away from the door that chesea fan guy opened his door again and yelled at me and said im so sorry mate, i didnt mean to be rude mate, and he asked us if we would want to watch the game with him. i was like HECK YES!!!! and my companion was like no........ ugh.. it could have been a great excuse to watch a football match cause we would have watched it with an "investigator present".. haha but its okay.. it was fun though!!
Yesterday we were just knocking again, and we got a call from an elder in out district elder johnson, he had a referral for us. the referral happened to be in the area we were just in, in that very moment, elder johnson met this guy at a bus stop, he wanted to be taught again, he was once taught by missionaries a year ago and it just fell apart. but anyways he wanted to be taught again, so Elder Romer and i called this guy, his name is John, he wanted us to go over to his house right away, we do so. when we sat down in his living room we started talking to him just to get to know him and stuff. he told us that him and his mom got in a car accident that morning and his mom had to be rushed to the hospital, she turned out to be okay, just a bump on the head and some bruises. he said he couldnt believe that she didnt have serious injuries because the car was completely crushed on her side. thats what made him want to be taught by the missionaries again, thats what made him believe in God again. i told him that the Lord was watching out for him and his mother, and there is a reason why we are here with you today. he got a little emotional and said yes i know. im happy you guys are here. he told us he wants to change his life around, he had many addictions, drugs, pornography etc... once that was brought up he asked me if i had a garbage bag.. i said no.. why?.. and he said "oh i wanted you to take all my porn away from me, i wanted you guys to throw it all away for me." haha i was like yeah... and the subject changed. we watched a book of mormon dvd with him, we all felt the spirit, john really wanted to change and be baptized, he said a year ago he was taught all the lessons and he just wanted to be baptized as soon as possible, he knew he had to change his life before baptism, and thats what he's doing rIght now! we prayed with him and shared some scriptures with him, and he said he'll read the book of mormon everyday and pray before and after he reads. that was my advice to him to help him understand the book of mormon. hes a committed guy! we were about to leave his home and i remembered what he said about taking his magazines away.. i asked him if he had a garbage bag, he said yes..... so i said do you want us to take away your magazines?.. he said yes. he grabbed a big black garbage bag and went in his room and put all the stuff in it and gave it to me. it was like 10 pounds of magazines.. haha dont worry i didnt see anything that was in the bag. but that was a big step for john! i told him if he's ever tempted to look at porn, that he should watch the book of mormon dvd that i gave him. i put it right on his keyboard. :) haha he said he would do that! so we'll see him on wednesday at 4:00! :) it was awesome! and to end the day we threw the SATIN BLACK BAG IN A TESCOS RUBBISH CAN!! it was sweet!
I love and miss all of you guys so much! yesterday at church we had a ton of primary kids, most of them were our nephew and nieces age. it really made me want to cry cause i miss my NEPHEWS AND NIECES!! :( but all is well!
I LOVE YOU GUYS AGAIN!! i gotta go build the kingdom! hear from you next monday!
Jaxon cutting his Companion's hair! This is his first time cutting any one's hair, so he HAD to document it. And what is that? Saran wrap around him? Ha ha I'll have to ask him next week :)
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