Missionary Monday - Silver Spring Week 3

What's up??

Last Tuesday was pretty dope, Elder Corbridge spoke to us for like 5 hours and just like in stake conference, he was laying it down. He went IN on Joseph Smith and what we have because of him and what we would have without him. People out here always try and tell me we worship him, but if there was a mortal man to be worshipped, he'd be the one. The underlining question throughout his lecture on Joseph Smith was whether he did it on his own and was an imposter, or if he had heavens help. And it's up to us to find out for ourselves. Then we taught Josue a recent convert lesson and that was good, he's hilarious. Also! As we were walking to his house this Hispanic guy pulls over and he's like "Son Mormones?" we replied "Si" He told us he likes our church and that he lives "Lower on the street 600" and to go find him, then he drove off. We taught Josue then came back out and went to look for him, 600 is helpful and all except that the house numbers have 4 digits. We find a 6600 and go for it, a teenage kid answers and we are like "Is there a 30 year old guy that likes Mormons that lives here?" 😂 He was like "No." Then the guy (Hector) came flying down the stairs and was like "heeeey! You came!" So that was awesome, we'll be meeting with him Tuesday.

Wednesday we tracted, then tracted again, then tracted some more. Then had correlation. Nothing special.

Thursday we tracted in the morning and the first door we knock on we here a gravely "COME IN" we were like uh... alright. We walk in and there's this old black dude sitting on the floor with a vacuum in a million pieces 😂 he told us he doesn't need to hear from us because he believes in everything about God so whatever we say he's just going to believe. Then told us about him getting shot and as he's talking he just lifts up his shirt to show us the scars. It was wack. Overall he was a cool guy though. We talked a little bit about the plan of salvation and he said he'd call us...

Friday we had an awesome morning. The Suitland zone next to us doesn't have Spanish missionaries so we are assigned to all of it if there's ever a referral. We had a referral that was 30 miles away and she didn't have a number but it was from a member in California so we call him and he's like yeah I don't have her number but if you go Friday at 8 AM she will be there, "Teach her until she is baptized" So we got out there at freakin 8 and turns out the address is wrong. We tried a house with the same numbers but different order and it was hers. Some lady answered and she definitely was woken up by us and told us the girl we were looking for wasn't there, we asked if she had her number and she said "no I'm just staying here" Then shut the door, so I think that might have been her giving us the slip... We left our number on the door. We probably won't go down there again unless we get a call. We had to exchange with the Zone Leaders that night and they wanted to meet in the parking lot of a TGIFridays... That was weird, there were plenty of people out and we are just four dudes standing In a circle who pray, hug, put a suitcase in the other car, then drive off... 😂 When I got back with Elder Heiner we went into the stairwell to go up to our apartment and someone was in a rush and had pooped on the floor... I have a picture but I'll save you all from that by not including it 😉 

Saturday was kind of rough for most of the day, a lot of lessons falling through and a lot of finding. After dinner we were determined to teach some people and we ended up having 3 lessons with people we knocked into 😂 2 were on the porch and 1 the guy let us right in. So that felt nice. We drove past one of the guys that canceled on the way home and he was suuuper drunk with his friends in the front yard, an empty 36 pack of beer with cans EVERYWHERE 😂 

Sunday we had church and that was good, the youth went to Palmyra the day before and so they all spoke and seemed to have a really good experience. Which is good for them. From what I can tell so far, Spanish youth are kind of like the children of the people who listened to King Benjamin. The parents are converted because they had the conversion experience but the children, not so much. We almost went to "why I believe" At the visitors center but the members who planned on bringing one of our Investigators as well as us cancelled... So we tracted. Good times.

Anyways, hope you all had a great week, can't wait to hear from you!

No pictures this week sorry 🤷🏿‍♂️ 

Elder Beck

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