Hello, Fam!
What an interesting week! I'm not
sure if Mom told you, but I lost my wallet on a train earlier this week.
Luckily, someone turned it in, so all's well. But the story behind it is
HILARIOUS.
First of all, on Tuesday I was on an
exchange with Elder Glasgow, who's fresh from the MTC. Awesome guy. We all
think it was destiny that sent him to the Glasgow Zone hahaha Anyways, it was
his first exchange, so I'm now his "Godfather", like how Elder Massey
is my "Father". So, we had to take the bus to get to this one area we
were going to be chapping. I looked on a map, and found out which bus we needed
to take. We got to the bus stop, and the schedule doesn't even mention that
bus. I assumed that since the map was old, they might have changed the buses
around. So we take another bus that I assumed would take us to the area.
I was wrong.
We didn't realize until we were
already on the freeway that we were on the bus to Glasgow.
During the ride back, we talked with
this Muslim guy (he had a sick beard btw) and were able to give him a Book of
Mormon! So it was all worth it ha ha not really.
We got back just in time for Ward
Council.
I'm afraid I caught Elder Massey's
cold, and we were quite miserable. I'm good now, so that's nice.
Thursday was very interesting. For
one thing, it was the exact opposite of normal: It literally poured every time
we came inside! We were very grateful for it, obviously! We also had two meal
appointments! One was with Teresa, who says she's praying about a specific day
now!
On Saturday, we met with Grace
again! We met with her at the church, so when we taught her about the First Vision,
we took a "field trip" to the big painting every church building has.
It was really cool! She committed again to come to church. Apparently, she
takes sleeping pills, but last week she took them too late and slept through
Church. This week we're assuming the same thing happened because she didn't
come again. But she kept saying she really wanted to go to church so I know she
will come eventually!
After Church Sunday we had a ward Munch-n-Mingle,
which was really good. Elder Massey and I brought cookies from Tesco, and they
were gone like that! We met with Steve Reeson again. He actually came out and
said that he knew the next step for him was to actually make an effort to come
to church! He's scared to because every time he meets with us, his life gets
worse! And he knows it's because of Satan, and if he goes to church, it's going
to get REALLY worse!! But he made the commitment, so here's hoping for him!
Please pray that he'll have a better week this week, because his life is really
bad. I don't know how it can get worse unless he gets evicted (which his
landlord already tried, but it was apparently illegal to evict him for some
reason) and is homeless.
So you're probably wondering why I'm
emailing you Tuesday instead of Monday. The reason is because we had Zone
Development Day yesterday! Basically, what Zone Development Day is, it's a
Zone-wide party. We all get together and spend the entire day playing games and
just getting to know one another better. It was really fun! We started off
playing Yoga Football, which is British Football played with one of those Yoga
Balls. IT WAS AWESOME. Then we played Capture the Flag. We weren't keeping
score, but if we were, my team won three times out of five. ;) Then we headed
to the church building for dinner (PULLED PORK SANDWHICHES!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!) and
some more games. Elder Massey and I had to leave just when they were picking
teams for dodgeball, unfortunately, in order to be back before 9:00. We missed
the train, so we didn't get back until 9:30 I'm afraid. But overall, it was an
awesome day! I'm just super sore from all the running hahaha
So about my investigators! This
awesome guy Ronnie, who I don't know if I've mentioned before, texted us the
other day. The reason we hadn't been able to get in contact with him last week
was because he'd been stabbed three times!!!!! So please pray for a
speedy recovery, and I'll be sure to send you details (but not too much
details!) when I get them! Robert won't be able to meet with us for the next
two weeks, so that's too bad. Kieveer isn't exactly in the picture anymore. We
don't know what happened, but yeah. Elaine, this really nice old lady we met,
doesn't want to get involved in any religion just yet, she's still mourning the
death of her husband and dog a few months ago. We haven't seen Claire either,
we keep missing her. And this young couple, Scott and Linzi. So your prayers
for them would be greatly appreciated.
So overall, life's been good. No
complaints, at least. I love this work! I love sharing this gospel which has
blessed me so much in my life! I love you all so much too and I really enjoy
reading your emails! Thanks for your love and support! :)
Love
Elder Bates
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