That was a fast week!

Yaateh everybody!

   Well this week has flown by and I have had some interesting and neat experiences.  Yesterday was a really good day at church!  There were over 165 people there which is way above the average of 120.  We got up early so we could call people and go and visit them before church started, so i guess our efforts payed off.  It really seemed like a lot of people since the week before everybody was out of town going to Phoenix because the girls high school basketball team was in the state tournament, but they won so I guess that is a good thing.  We had a baptism on Saturday, if was my first one. It was a neat experience.  Our other investigator with a baptism date could have been baptised already, Elder Sharp said he is probably the most doctrinal ready he has every seen.  Last night he called us at like 10:45 because he was studying and he didn't understand something.  Then we got a text from him on our way to email because he had another question.  Were excited for him!

   Last night we went to President Brown's House for dinner.  He is in the stake presidency and served his mission with Brother Pettey.  He called us on Saturday and said he wanted to have us over for dinner. We gladly accepted because he made us steak.  He owns the Hotel and Denny's in town, so we get a discount at Denny's.  It was fun to get to know them and hear about their experiences together. 

    Perhaps the most interesting story was last Tuesday night when we had to call the cops on a Gilaani.  Elder Sharp and I had gotten home and we were waiting for the other elders to get home. The phone rang and at the same time there was a knock on the door.  I went to see who knocked and Elder Sharp picked up the phone.  It wasn't the other elders so I went to put a shirt on after I looked through the peep hole.  As I walked away the person opened the door, but for some reason earlier I had locked the dead bolt so they couldn't open the door all the way.  The phone call that elder sharp was getting was from the other elders, they were just driving up and were calling to tell us not to answer the door as they drove away cuz they didn't want to come in with the guy there.  After i got a shirt on i opened the door and started talking to the guy.  He was so drunk that I could hardly understand him.  He wanted to come inside because he was cold but we couldn't allow him too neither did we want him to.  So we gave him a sandwich and an old box of cereal and sent him on his way.  We looked out the window a couple minutes later and he was laying on the stairs that go up to the parking lot with his head on the lower end and his legs at the higher.  We went outside and tried to talk to him but he didn't answer.  So we called the cops cuz we didn't want to touch him we figured that he had fallen and could be hurt.  But this is the res. and the cops didn't show up for like 15 minutes.  By the time the cops got here the guy had got up and locked himself in our storm room.  The cops finally came and took him away.

   We got some sad news the other day.  Elder Taylor was waiting for his visa and he got a letter from his mom saying it came.  So he is going to be leaving in a couple of days.  We are all sad but excited for him at the same time, he is going to go where the Lord has called him, and he will be blessed for that. We think we will the areas will be  combined until next transfer and the three of us will work together, if that's the case we will be busy. But that will be a good thing! Well I hope everything is going good with everybody back home! I love you all!

 

Love

Elder Schmidt