This week has been kinda dull but had some cool highlights. First off, we were walking home from tracting and we hear this guy running towards us yelling "Hey!!" trying to get our attention. When he caught up to us he asked if we were mormon and then told he was Lutheran and he wanted to learn about what we believe and gave us his address and told us to come over whenever. We went over there the next day and he was super excited that we came. He has a whole bookshelf of different religions bibles and a bunch of books on the bible and he even had a book of mormon. He is a super smart guy about the bible and he accepts most of the things we tell him but he still has some lutheran beliefs engraved in his brain so it's a little tough to teach him. Every time we go over there, we stay for like 2 hours or more because he side tracks a lot and he talks for such a long time. One of the first things he said to us was "Your not going to convert me and I'm not going to convert you so lets just get that out of the way". But we know that he definitely has the potential to get baptized and he would make a sweet convert.
I don't know if I told you this already but we volunteer at a Methodist church every Wednesday to help with something called the Midweek Meal. That is where a bunch of people from the community come to have a free lunch. It's pretty fun.
Then on Friday after district meeting we went on exchanges with the district leader. I went up to Fort Wayne with Elder Garcia who is so funny all the time and he is pretty good at free style rapping, and my companion Elder Savas stayed here with Elder Yi who is a freaking brain and a convert to the church. Up in Fort Wayne almost everything was in spanish so I couldn't understand anything. I only got to help out with 1 door knock. Then we had a dinner appointment at a spanish members house and we had some possum meatballs which were surprisingly good with beans and rice and home made tortillas. Elder Savas said that him and Elder Yi taught our investigator Rhonda. She said that she prayed the night before they came and sincerely asked God if what we have been teaching her was true. She then went to sleep and had a dream about the spirit world (we have pretty much been focusing on the afterlife with her cause thats what she wants). She told them that she would probably be wanting to get baptized and they didnt even have to ask her!
Then yesterday on Sunday our investigator Skyler (who has been taking the dicussions all summer) finally came to church for the first time! Booyah!! He even participated in the gospel principles class, then he left half way through priesthood cause he had to get home to his kids. A little bit of info on Skyler, He is originally from Oregon, he has 4 kids one of them is 11 and he had him with an ex girlfriend and the kid lives with her and he has to pay child support on him, he has 3 kids with his current girlfriend which he lives with, his girlfriend has 2 jobs and he was recently laid off of his. So he has it pretty bad right now but he always love talking to us, and we might be his only real friends.
The pictures I sent are of my MTC district, Sister Frederick and I doing a freeze-frame hi-5, me and the Columbia City sign, a haunted house in C City, and the picture where it looks like the guy is going to be stabbed you guys have to figure out what we are acting out. Well I am about to go golfing so I will send you another email next week.
Love, Elder Brogan Robertson
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