Another Week in the Books!

so this week was filled with missionary experiences! i relate to one of my friends, elder butler, email a while back when he was talking about all the crazy stuff that happens as missionaries! this week we had a lesson on the street that went super well until elder starks said, "i know that everything my companion said is true!" then the man stopped us and said, "WAIT?! did you say companion??!!" so then we had to explain to him that we werent...you know....and that just made things really awkward. the other day we went tracting for almost 3 hours straight and only had 1 person invite us back! (it was a wicked cool neighborhood though! HUGE trees were everywhere! and they had all sorts of vines growing up them!) one night we were woken up by some of the stray cats in the neighborhood outside our door making little kittens, yeah. we also decided to drop 4 of our investigators to give them some time and breathing room to see what they really wanted, and that is always disappointing. our baptism last week didnt show up to get confirmed this week. but what can you do! just keep working hard and trust in the lord! we still have one really solid investigator who is coming to church regularly now!

 and we found other ways to stay positive too!  me and elder starks one night decided to give each other haircuts! hee hee hee (it was my first time, but he was a pro!) so you can imagine what his hair looked like compared to mine! mine was actually good, and his.....well it was pretty great until i started trimming around the ears...yeah he wouldnt even let me take a picture of it! haha but the only difference between a good haircut and a bad one is 2 weeks so!!! only 1 investigator has commented on it so far!  also one of the highlights of the week (at least in my eyes!) was that the ward had like a cake auction mixed in with a spaghetti dinner to raise money for the scouts! not an exceptionally large ammount of people showed up and so one of the members pulled us aside and said that he would sponsor us up to 30 dollars to get the crowd going! so me and elder starks start bidding like crazy! (always pulling out at 30$) anyways elder agor was also there on exchanges, but he wasnt being sponsored, so he just thought that we were using our own money! so he starts bidding too!? now there was one cake in particular that we wanted! it was a british barbie cake! (kinda like the ones you made for morgan and sydney when they were younger mom!) so this cake comes on the auction block, and me and elder starks start bidding for it all the way up to 20$ right off the bat, and elder agor (not wanting to be outdone by his other missionaries) shouted, "25$!!!" and then it just went DEAD silent! then somebody said, "let the missionaries have it!" then elder agor realizes that he is going to have to pay 25$ for a cake, and starts freaking out! Long story short, since we didnt buy anything, the member sponsored it for him and we got a british barbie cake!

 Love being a missionary even though it is tough sometimes! i love hearing from you guys back at home too! thanks for all the support that i have gotten! i wouldnt have gotten to where i am now without you guys! i Love you and the lord loves you! in the words of bill and ted, "be excellent to each other" until next week!-- 
Love Elder Jones