2 Weeks Left!

So that sucks. This will be my 2nd to last email home. Next week I'll have a big long email. You'll laugh, you'll cry. It will be better than a movie. But today, it's gonna be boring.

First thing is first: Rick Perry is running for President. The man telling Texas to fast and pray for rain. I'm getting Utah pumped for this guy.

It took almost my whole mission, but I got a good jello story! Earlier this week we had dinner with an old couple. One of the side dishes was green jello with chopped almonds and shredded cheese in it. It was horrible. It still doesn't beat the jello with tuna and mayo that exists somewhere in the mission, but it was pretty bad stuff.

We got to live the Good Samaritan story. Sat night our split's car ran out of gas and died. So we pushed it to the side of the road, and he got someone to take him to the gas station to get some gas. While he was gone, the 3 of us waited by the side of the road for them to come back. While we waited, a stake party was getting out down the street. Many members of the church passed by. One even stopped, took a picture of us, and then drove off again. Finally someone stopped to see if we needed help. They were not coming back from the party. They had sleeveless shirts on and tattoos. But these were the people who acted most like Christ that day.

One more story. One of my newer excuses on the list I put out a while ago of why people won't have their friends talk to missionaries (the updated one will be on the next email) was the simple statement "she's not ready" Even though the "she" in questions went to youth conference. Even though she bore her testimony at girl's camp. And had been going to mutual. "She's not ready." I had this family who told this to us.  They then told us of a family who would invite this girl. Eager to delegate, they sent us to the Meullers, who did invite Kyla.  She has now had 2 lessons with us, and has a date to be baptized September 10th. "But she's not ready."

It was pretty fun telling this family all this on Sunday at church. I did it nicely and didn't offend. But this family learned what we all sometimes need to remember. It's not up to us to decide who is ready. Ed would be the least likely to be baptized, but he was. It's up to us as members to invite everyone. There's nobody that Christ wouldn't invite to be baptized. This seems a lil rebuking, but don't take it that way. Go out and be missionaries!