Week 23: "Of course, I was baptized 'Mormon' at 11"

 Hey y'all! Happy Monday!

This week was good, I guess. Things are slowing down though, as the temperature is dropping. Not a whole lot of people outside to talk to, so we'll see what the next few weeks look like.

Anyways, this week we saw a lot of cool unplanned lessons. We showed up to the house of someone we've been teaching for a bit. A different guy named Phillip comes out and said that our friend wasn't home. Anyways, we get to talking to Phillip, and he's like super cool and thinks it's awesome what we're doing. He then says, "well y'all, I just got off work so I'm gonna go have some me time." 
We were like "yeah, good to meet you man!"
And then out of nowhere he's just says, "hey do y'all do Bible studies with people?" 
"Yeah, of course!" 
"Well, come on in!" 
So we totally just have an awesome Bible study with this guy who studies the Bible on his own for 2-3 hours a day. It was so cool! At some point he's like "I have a question for y'all. I found this scripture a couple days ago and I don't really know what it means." He then pulls out some scripture from Hebrews with the name Melkezidek in it, and he was wondering who Melkezidek was. At this point I thought we were either about to get trolled and bashed, or that this guy was legit prepared of God for us to meet him. And he was totally prepared!! We start talking about the restoration of the Aaronic and Melkezidek priesthoods, and he thought it was all super cool! Then our other friend showed up, and Phillip had to go talk with his wife on the phone (before us getting his contact info). So hopefully that will lead somewhere...

We also found out that one of the guys we've been teaching for the past like 2 months is actually a member of the Church, he just hasn't been in over 40 years. Somehow our conversation with him this past week got to him saying, "Of course, I was baptized 'mormon' at age 11." And we silently were like, oh. that's awkward. Amd of course he said as if it was obvious and it needed no explanation. So we totally just kept on with the conversation without addresing that fact at all. We won't really have to switch gears with how we'll teach him or anything as he doesn't really remember a whole lot. But, you know, we probably need to find his records. Obviously missionary work is solely about how many people you baptize (clearly taught in PMG), so this was a bit of a psychic blow. lol.

Other fun stuff this week...

One of my favorite member families made missionary jack-o-lanterns. It was so cool. They literally carved a tie and a name tag into a pumpkin. Their kids are pretty young, so it's always fun to see them excited about the missionaries and missionary work.

The kid who said I looked fresh last week was at the park again yesterday. For some reason, I didn't look fresh enough for him this week, so I didn't get anymore compliments. He just wanted a Bible. Hopefully his parents don't call Church headquarters on us and say that we indoctrinated their kid  with polygamy or Joe Smith with a King James Version of the Bible. also lol.

Anyways, I'm losing patience, and this email is lame. Sorry!

Pictures!

Happy Fall Y'all

Grace sent this to me. Felt it needed to be documented with no context. #HippoProductions(?)

Owlivia didn't like me this week. Naturally she avoided me by staying in the corner.


Missionary Pumpkins!

Celestial TiWi Mode

Cool Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson with nails

The cuh cracks me up


Anyways, I love y'all! Talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Creer
Kentucky Louisville Mission

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