The weather was absolutely glorious on Friday. In the
morning and afternoon gray clouds shrouded the skies, rain fell to the earth,
and lightning and thunder cracked from the sky. Everyone said that doesn't
happen very often around here, so I'm disappointed it probably won't happen
again, but it was sure good while it lasted.
I've found that early in my mission I mostly dreamt about
home. After a bit I only dreamt about missionary work. Now I dream a
combination. For example, this week I dreamt Jesse was my companion, and in a
room that looked like the sunroom--but it was in a house up here--was a
foot-long spider. (I think this dream came from the very large spider we saw in
the church bathroom, but may also have been related to the discussion on the
six-foot Gilligan's Island spider, if you remember that.) I got out my camera
to record it and was recording the shadow, but before I could record the spider
itself, Jesse had disassembled it and had its eight legs hanging in circles on
a tool, as well as other smaller spider parts.
We got a new investigator this week. We've been teaching her
boyfriend (they live together) and he's really interested, but she's avoided
us. This week she came up to us and said, "I have to ask you one thing
before this goes any further. Do you believe in having multiple wives?"
When we said no, she was relieved. She had heard a lot of other stuff, so we
cleared that up, and now she's interested too! We were on exchanges that day,
so Elder D. wasn't there, but I was very excited.
And another investigator works at Ross and she bought us
clearance ties. It was really nice of her.[1] We watched The Testaments
with her last night, and played with her boys, who are four and two. The
four-year old kept showing us his collection of DVDs and told me the ones he
hated (he hates Chicken Little, the little guy) and it reminded me of when we'd
go over to Nan's and Allie would take out all of her DVDs. He has one that's
"The Animated Passion," cartoons about Jesus, and he told us it was
called "My God." It was really funny but you probably had to be
there.
[Sentence redacted] (We have helpful little pamphlets for
the Restoration, the Plan of Salvation, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of
Wisdom, Chastity, and Tithes and Offerings, which we give to our investigators.
The pamphlets, not the tithes.)
Well, I'm out of time for this week, so until next week,
Love,
Elder Melville
[1]
She brought out four ties and said we could each have one. My companion took
two, so I took two, but I think she only meant to give us one each. I always felt
guilty after that, because I didn’t even like the second one I took.
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