Elder, Don't Freak Out If A Rat Crawls Over Your Foot.

For general conference Saturday Evening, we went to the house of a family we are teaching here in CG! As we were getting out of the car, Elder Sanders leaned over to me and said, "Elder, don't freak out if a rat crawls over your foot." We walked in and it was wild... a lot going on in that house. The sultan of the home welcomed us and we went in to the "diner." Storage shelves on every wall, holding a plethora of the most glorious, crusty cooking appliances you could ever want along with food storage. They had Ninja blenders (tilted towers) and food looking so new you would call it Mr. Fresh... not. Anyways, our hosts were very into the messages! Due to the constant scurrying under the table, and my focus on avoiding the ROUS's pulling me into the marsh, I will be going back to re-listen to the Saturday Evening Session.


We may be getting a single dad with 7 kids a ride to church for Easter Sunday. Stay tuned to see if President Phelps will let us borrow the mission van. Prayers up!


A member signed up to feed us dinner, then said to come pick up some money for dinner because they couldn't have us over. They said they didn't have time to buy us gift cards to Hideout Steakehouse, but that's where they wanted us to go. So there we are, two broke boy missionaries in the boujee side o' town with a 100 dollar bill. We didn't want to walk away with any money, so we both got some squilliam fancy pants type beat 16oz Ribeyes. We grubbed up. Then... as we were getting ready to pay, the waitress came over and said someone had already paid for us so we were chill to leave whenever we wanted. Now we have to figure out the most righteous way get rid of the money. 


We have seen so many miracles out here, the work is alive, and Christ is healing people on the daily.


Elder Sheppert



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