This week has been a crazy one. I have gotten to know E. Johnson rather well. And we will continue to get to know each other better, seeing as our zone conference is on the 18th (Kyra's birthday) and we won't be seeing any other missionaries until the 5th week of this transfer. Ya...5 weeks with one person, just one person. It's a good thing E. Johnson and I get along really well. To better describe E. Johnson, he is just like a ginger version of Alex Heder (watch Hayden's reaction). It's true, but this is good, I know exactly how to get along with him now. Like all Gingers he's got a fiery temper that comes out when people don't listen to us. Which is good, because it means he cares. He also does a lot of very funny things. I'll give you a couple examples.
Sometimes we cross english-only indians up here. Our english contacting skills are pretty bad. We contacted this one guy and started talking to him, he rejected our offer to learn more, so I offered if we could help him out and do service for him,
the guy said "no, I'm good thanks"
I said "Are you sure? We'll help you with anything."
"Anything?" the guy said jokingly.
"Anything?" the guy said jokingly.
Then E. Johnson chimed in. This is where it gets weird. Johnson later claims that he didn't even realize what he said, until I told him, he thought he said "We'll clean your floors." But somewhere in the lingual blender there, it came out as "WE'LL LICK YOU'RE FEET!"
The man's face dropped. Immediately after the words came out of Johnson's mouth, I said
"NO, no we will not do that sir, but we would love to help out."
He did not take us up on that offer.
I'll keep you updated on the crazy things he says, it keeps things interesting.
We were walking some member's dogs, in the Canadian wilderness. All of a sudden a huge rotweiller/wolf mix came running at us. It kept falling into the deep 3 feet of snow, we'd see it for a couple seconds, then BAM, it would disappear...then pop up again, and disappear into the snow. I was laughing, and I turned to see that E. Johnson was gone, running down the street. I thought for a second, then turned to see the rotweiller rolling onto the road and finally picking up speed.
Needless to say, we got our exercise. We've been working real hard, and this week we have an appointment with the local newspaper to have an article put in. I'm liking this, partially because I think door-to-door is very ineffective. Why not just have a newspaper print our testimonies and deliver them to 20,000 residences? So that's our plan, and we're going to talk to the mayor on friday. As well as talking to the local TV news station about an interview...So pray for my french this week, hopefully we'll be able to communicate well this week.
New years eve was kind of "missionary like" because we literally had no food. We scrounged up some change and bought some potatoes. And had mashed potatoes. That was it. Just mashed potatoes. One of those wonderful missionary experiences, but now we have plenty of food, luckily.
We got a new investigator, but sadly I'm thinking we'll have to drop him soon. He is determined to convert us to catholicism. The first meeting we had, he asked us Why there is polygamy in heaven and why we stopped polygamy just because of the American laws, and why didn't Jesus tell Peter about the church in Americas. After he asked me this, I said "We are not prepared to answer your questions." (Having no intention to ever prepare to answer his questions) But E. Johnson didn't catch the drift there, and promptly began to answer his questions. All of it was pretty much blasphemy, that he said. And then he said,
"So, if the catholic church is true, then Jesus Christ is a sinner."
This offended the man. I usually try to back up my companion, but I don't know where he was going with this one. I just looked at him. And prayed. He tried to explain it, but he didn't understand enough of the catholic church to know what he was talking about. Sigh. Well. You know. He'll catch on soon enough. It's not about bible bashing and arguing, it never was.
We'll have a companion study on "not saying things."
Well that's about all I have for this week, I'll keep you updated with weeks to come.
E. Holm
Needless to say, we got our exercise. We've been working real hard, and this week we have an appointment with the local newspaper to have an article put in. I'm liking this, partially because I think door-to-door is very ineffective. Why not just have a newspaper print our testimonies and deliver them to 20,000 residences? So that's our plan, and we're going to talk to the mayor on friday. As well as talking to the local TV news station about an interview...So pray for my french this week, hopefully we'll be able to communicate well this week.
New years eve was kind of "missionary like" because we literally had no food. We scrounged up some change and bought some potatoes. And had mashed potatoes. That was it. Just mashed potatoes. One of those wonderful missionary experiences, but now we have plenty of food, luckily.
We got a new investigator, but sadly I'm thinking we'll have to drop him soon. He is determined to convert us to catholicism. The first meeting we had, he asked us Why there is polygamy in heaven and why we stopped polygamy just because of the American laws, and why didn't Jesus tell Peter about the church in Americas. After he asked me this, I said "We are not prepared to answer your questions." (Having no intention to ever prepare to answer his questions) But E. Johnson didn't catch the drift there, and promptly began to answer his questions. All of it was pretty much blasphemy, that he said. And then he said,
"So, if the catholic church is true, then Jesus Christ is a sinner."
This offended the man. I usually try to back up my companion, but I don't know where he was going with this one. I just looked at him. And prayed. He tried to explain it, but he didn't understand enough of the catholic church to know what he was talking about. Sigh. Well. You know. He'll catch on soon enough. It's not about bible bashing and arguing, it never was.
We'll have a companion study on "not saying things."
Well that's about all I have for this week, I'll keep you updated with weeks to come.
E. Holm
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