Week 76 - An intoxicated musician, NOT a good idea.

Yeah, it was suuuuuuuper cold here last week, but this week was heavenly!! It was up in the 60's!! I loved it! But this week it's getting back down to winter weather and it's supposed to go back down below 10 -_- so that's unfortunate. 

This week was good! We have been going out with Bro. Rodriguez a lot ever since he's been reactivated and he loves it!! He gave a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday and he did really well! He's on fire as he comes back to the church and his testimony.

This week we met with the G. family twice. The first time, we invited them to come to the church for a tour with us and they said maybe, and honestly, I was doubtful they could come. But at 6 pm on Wednesday they called and said they wanted to come at 6:30, so we hurried and miraculously found 2 members that could come with us and do the church tour. It was great! They liked it and I thought for sure they'd finally come to church! But, sadly they didn't come yesterday and they are still very hesitant when it comes to attending church. Step by step we're hoping they start warming up to the idea.

On Thursday we drove down to Warsaw to do exchanges with the Elders down there and it was a lot of fun! The very first lesson I taught with Elder Howlett on our exchange was to a drunk man that approached them a few nights before. We went to his house and he was definitely drunk again, but he let us in. His name was B. and he said he really wanted to be able to stop his addiction to alcohol. As I walked into his house, I saw his guitar and asked him if he played. He replied in the affirmative and I told him I do too a little bit. Well we got to talking and talked about addictions and the Atonement and how he can overcome it, but soon enough we had to get going because it was getting late. We told him we had to go and he said, "Well you guys can't leave until someone plays a song on the guitar." I told him we had to go, but he was very persistent, as most intoxicated people are, so I finally agreed. Although I was very rusty, I began to play "The General" by Dispatch (shout out to Michael Rosenberg) and he turned to Elder Howlett and said, "Do you know how to play the tambourine?" Elder Howlett said no and Ben yelled, "I do!!" And he picked up his tambourine and started hitting it with no rhythm whatsoever. He then handed the tambourine to Elder Howlett and grabbed another one out of his closet and fell to the ground and started dancing.... Well, in order to stop the madness I stopped playing, put the guitar down and we left. He said we could come back anytime though!! It was definitely a journal worthy experience.

Sadly, R. and her family couldn't make it to church, but we were able to teach them. They're still doing really well, but sometimes R. tends to put work over church so she wasn't there which means we'll have to push her date back.

That's all I have for this week! We'll be having Zone Conference tomorrow, so we're looking forward to that. We have to give a training in front of President Cleveland, so I'm a little nervous, but it'll be all good. I love you! Have a great week!!

Doing Service at Lake Winona