We had a good week. It was Elder Allred's 20th birthday on Friday. We had three or four birthday parties for him. It was a lot of cake, but I'm not complaining. So much for skinny.
We had some good things happen this week and I actually wrote some of them down so I'd remember! On Monday, we had dinner with a rather awkward family who brought a friend over. The friend was a Korean exchange student, who was super nice. His name is Subin. Everything went pretty well until he started to be interrogated by the Sister. Then her son asked questions about population control and they talked about that for a while. Elder Allred and I felt pretty bad. Then when dinner was over, a cat walked up to the door. I looked over and said, "Hey look, we have a cat visitor," and both the Sister and her son jumped from the table exclaiming, "Hershey!" and ran outside to go welcome their prodigal cat with such greetings as, "You're alive and not dead!" So they did that for about 15 minutes while we apologized to Subin for dinner being so awkward. We did give him a Korean Book of Mormon though, so that was cool. You're welcome missionaries in Korea.
On Wednesday, after a District Meeting, we went to Taco Bell, because you don't turn down Taco Bell when you're in Bolivar and it's Happier Hour. Then when we got back to Stockton we went to our dinner appointment. After our dinner appointment, we went to a teaching appointment with Matthew and Ecko, one of the fundamentalist families that wants to be baptized. We walked in, and upon seeing the salad bowl on the table begin to cry inside. Three dinners were had that night. It hurt. So much for skinny.
On Friday, we drove to El Dorado Springs, which is about a 25 minute drive. We usually go every week, but on our way up we talked about how things weren't really getting anywhere there, and our time was probably better spent working in other parts of the area. When we first arrived, a few appointments we had planned fell through, so we went to a thrift store that usually isn't open because it has weird hours to kill a few minutes before our next appointment. I felt prompted to bring a Book of Mormon in so I did. We did some shopping, I got a pair of slacks and some sweet ties, and then we talked to the lady at the register and gave her the Book of Mormon! It was sweet. Her name is Bonnie. We'll see what happens next week when we go back. It was neat to see the Lord telling us that there was still stuff we had to do in El Dorado.
Saturday was our Greenwood baptism trip, which was a lot of fun. I got to meet a whole bunch of new people, and even had the opportunity to wave at my old Stake Center in Bentonville when we drove by. The baptism was awesome, and the Spirit was really strong. The people were so kind and open, it was a great trip. On our way home, we got caught in a nasty storm and were way delayed. We ended up getting back around 8:45 Sunday night, which sucked, but it was all good in the end.
It was a good week, and we're hoping to have another good one this week. Transfer calls are this weekend, which is super weird, but such is life as a missionary. Hopefully Elder Allred and I will do one more together. Fingers crossed!
Love y'alls,
Elder Christopher Drake
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