Well this week has been a pretty busy one! Like I said last week we had a lot of scheduled appointments. Sadly most of them fell through... not all of them though! We visited a few less active families. One was a less active family that I was visiting back when Elder H was here but they had been busy and we haven’t seen them for awhile. While we were there I found out their 8 year old daughter has a guitar but didn’t know how to play anything and none of the family knows how either so I had her bring it out and I taught her and her brother who is like 10 just a couple chords and told them to practice them and next time I would teach them a couple more. I’m super grateful for my talent of playing the guitar because this isn’t the first time I used it to talk with people. After I taught them that, their 13 year old son who is probably one of my favorite kids in the ward showed me his drum set and we just played around on that for a bit. We had a really good time and we are going back possibly this upcoming week. Another cool story about guitar. We have a couple people we visit in a rest home every couple weeks and when we were leaving there was an older guy there who had been performing for the old folks and he was leaving with his stuff and I asked him what kind of guitar he had and he set it down and pulled it out of the case and handed it to me to play so I just played around on it for a minute and told him it was a wonderful guitar and he took it back and started playing a song and singing a song that he wrote! It was super cool. After he finished we helped him carry his stuff to his van and load it up. They weren’t interested in our message at all but a couple of the people (him and one of his friends) live up at the veterans home and they know one of our members there and we told him we would be up there Monday night for dinner with them and they said they would sit with us! It was super cool so hopefully we will see them tonight and possibly invite them to the lesson afterward! Other than that we stopped by and visited some other less actives a few of them are actually starting to be at church pretty regularly! I think we haven’t had much success with investigators because it has helped us focus on less actives and we are seeing some progress there.
So crazy story! The AP's called last Monday night and told me they would be at my district meeting the next day. Oh boy! So as they said they did show up and we had a really good district meeting! Afterward I talked with Elder M and he told me it was one of the best district meetings he had been to so I was happy about that and then we just talked about my district and how they were doing. After district meeting I had talked to Elder J about going tracting with me so I can see how he does it so we went out to a neighborhood and started knocking on doors. We knocked on this one door and this is what happened. So the screen door was closed but his main door was open so we could see into his house. We knock and he shows up down the hall and just says "hello?"
Elder J, "Hello sir how are you doing?"
"I’m busy!"
"Sir do you know who we are?"
"I don’t care who you are!"
"Sir do you need help with anything?"
-Asian man literally runs forward, throws the door open so it slams against the wall, and gets right up in Elder J’s face and yells "I TOLD YOU I’M BUSY!"
-Jordan just stands his ground and says "Sir. We just want to help you."
"I DONT NEED ANY HELP! GET AWAY FROM MY HOUSE!"
Turns around and slams the door behind him.
Whoa. Yeah that guy was a jerk. It was crazy! Of the 4 people we talked to that day 3 of them were flat out jerks to us... so it didn’t work out to well but it made for some good stories. We still haven’t found any new investigators but this week our goal is to see at LEAST one member a day and try to get people active in missionary work. Hopefully it will work better than tracting has. Oh also on Saturday morning we had the big helping hands service day for California and we just helped clean windows up at the veterans home! It was pretty fun!
Well that’s pretty much all for this email. I love you tons and miss you!!
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