Hey hey hey! Ugh what a week! So my first fast sunday at church was pretty interesting. We challenged a few investigators to come to church and were worried none were coming and right as the service starts...Chester walks in with Brother Ranck! It was pretty awesome. He came and sat with Mouritsen, Jim and I. Roberta came too but i am not sure we are going to be able to baptize her. I guess she has been getting taught forever! So testimony meeting started out strong with some great heartfelt testimonies! I was so glad there were no wierd or stupid stories...but oh no... up walks this lady and gets up to talk and starts going off on how people keep judging her for not coming to church and with tears in her eyes tells us that she reads her scriptures and prays every night and said other stupid things. After that the meeting spiraled out of control with wierd testimonies. Mouritsen and I were trying not to laugh so badly! Ugh it was terrible. Towards the end i made a deal with Jim that we would go up together to bear our testimonies and he did it! He did great.! Chester loved church though! He gave comments in the classes and even got emotional hearing the testimonies of others. So Pday was super lame and boring like always but the worst part is that i found out i was going on EXCHANGES!!!!:P I had to go all the way out to Waynesboro which is a tiny little drug town abour 30 miles from Chambersburg. I had to go with Elder Curl for Monday night all the way to wednesday when we have district meeting. We got to go teach his and Harrison's investigators all of tuesday. They are pretty cool people but i really missed our investigators! I ate at this place called Waynesburger though and it is so good!!! So wednesday came around and it was definately good to be back with Elder Mouritsen. Elder Curl every chance he got would let EVERYONE know i am new and it drove me nuts! Plus he would never stop talking about himself! Ugh anyways wednesday night we went and met this family from an OYM we got and we didn't know what to expect. Long story short, their last name is Rivera and they are from Puerto Rico and are freaking awesome!!! The two sisters, Sonia and Dely moved over to the U.S. when they were like fourteen and they now have 3 kids(sonia) and 6 kids(Dely). We have only met Sonia's kids who are all boys, Richard, Edwin and Vincent. They are really cool though! They might come play basketball with us some nights. We want to go to some of their games though. They are really good! Our first time meeting with them we just focused on gaining their trust by just being friends and just sharing a short message with them. We have met with them twice now and so far they are all really interested! We meet with them tomorrow and are going to teach them how families can be together forever! So Chester had a big week! We started the Stop smoking program with him on saturday and so far it is going great! However, one of the parts of the program is drinking 100% grapefruit juice after every meal and we didn't know it was a natural laxative and he didn't either...He didn't come to church the next day... Hey at least he is pooping out all the nicotine!!:D So one of the days we were just walking downtown and saw a man staring at us like we were demons sent straight from Hell and we started going towards him and immediately just started screaming his head off yelling at us to GO AWAY!! It was so dang wierd! I love it though, every time we experience people like that, the next fifteen minutes is us imitating their voice or things they said to us:) We met a few Hatian guys and girls this week! They speak like seven languages! I honestly think that people that live in those places have the natural ability to learn languages. They are really cool though and somewhat interested in hearing our lessons. We actually almost got them to church this last sunday but no luck. We did get Philip though! He is one of our other investigators. Oh yeah we have nine progressing investigators right now! No big deal:) Well i have to keep this short because Mouritsen and I only have one computer:/ One thing that sucks though about our ward is that nobody signs up to feed us!! First of all we can't afford to feed ourselves and second of all how can we get refferalls if no one feeds us!! Yes i am accepting money donations for Elder Mouritsen and I:) Haha anyways have a great week everyone! The church is true! I love you:)
Oh ps for all who are wondering. No it isn't that cold. All my clothes are warm enough. Mom send me more t shirts cause i only have two. Um.. yeah no snow :(
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