Early in the week, we decided to go visit an older member of the ward who lives in the veteran's home here. As we were driving there, we saw one of our investigators wandering around so we pulled up next to him and asked when we could come over. We set up a time, and continued on. Around 5 minutes later we got a text from him along for a ride to the other side of Marshalltown. We can't give rides, but we called up the senior missionaries who said they could do it. They told us that they were just about done with a visit but they would go afterwards. With that figured out, elder ostergaard and I entered the veteran's home.
The veteran's home is massive. There's multiple buildings of residency, war memorials and I think a functioning hospital as well. The residencies are laid out like that part in "Lost" with a whole bunch of little houses so it took a while to find where to go. When we finally found his building and his room, we heard a conversation going on inside between the member and the senior missionaries who we had called earlier. The situation had just become an awkward one. It was almost time for us to go to another appointment so we decided to just try by later.
When we got back to the exit, there was a huge red sign that said "STOP! USE THE KEYPAD." We couldn't figure out how the thing worked so we just decided to ignore it and open the door. As it opened, a deafening alarm went off and the door closed. I kind of expected people to drop from the ceiling like in Monsters Inc. But instead a burly bald man came walking down the hall towards us. Rather than sentencing us to a night in rest home prison, hey put something into a keypad and let us out. What a guy.
Later that day, we were in a lesson with some recent converts, and their little brother was freaking out and hissing/growling at us and then bit my knee.
For all the weird experiences we had this week, we had some really cool ones as well. One of our investigators that we found on Elder Ostergaards first say was sick, so we couldn't meet with him for a while. But yesterday we saw him and while he was sick he read all of 1st and 2nd Nephi and did a whole bunch of research on lds.org. He started telling us about all this stuff he had found out and it was really awesome. He was able to accept a baptismal date as well so that was cool to see.
Yesterday we went to go try by one of our investigators who has been kind of flaky, and outside his house there were two other people that just started talking to us. They were both from Cairo, and had a ton of interest. Right when we walked up the man, Mibeor, told us he wanted to pray with us. So he prayed, and when he finished he looked at the book of Mormon in my hand, took it, and said he would read it but he wanted one in Arabic as well. Through the whole lesson his friend kept telling him that we were sent from God, and they told us that they had been talking about making changes a few days before. They were really cool.
I know that God did send us to those two to help them. He sent us there at exactly the right time, and the exact circumstance when they were ready for the message of the restoration.
The mission is super cool. I love it a lot
I hope you all have a good week!
A Picture of Marshalltown
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