I'm sad to leave the people here...not so much the town though. I'm excited to have a Walmarts again. Having to drive 30 minutes for reasonably priced groceries is stupid and annoying on a missionary budget. But I will miss the sweet trailer....
Anyhow, we had a pretty eventful week! Let me walk you through it:
Monday: Trip to Springfield with Bolivar Elders. Went to Bass Pro and looked at all the cool stuff. Like the firearms museum. Elder Aubry would've loved it. Also saw an 8 foot long Alligator Gar there. Guess I'm never swimming in a lake again. Then we went to the mall and felt like we were in Babylon or something. Don't understand why some people dress the way they do...Awkward.
Tuesday: Worked in town. Saw Eddie, a guy in a nursing home. He doesn't hear very well, and only has one eye, and the one eye needs super duper help. His glasses are about half an inch thick, but only on the left eye because the right one is fake. He is extremely nice, but doesn't hear well. I asked him, "Eddie, do you know how long you're going to be here for?" (His wife moved to Kansas City and this is supposed to be a temporary thing) Pausing for a minute, he responded, "Yeah." and that was the end of that!
Later that day we saw a wonderful awesome Less-active lady, Sister Budd. We pulled up to her house and saw her sitting in the backyard with her back to us. This was a little strange at first until we saw a distinctive haze of smoke wafting up to the air. Elder Allred turned to me and said, "She's smoking!! Oh my gosh, get out of here! So awkward, get out of here before she sees us!" So we turned around and sped off and then were sad about that for the rest of the day.
Wednesday: Got out of the house early and went to go do service for Brian, an investigator. He is 84. When we knocked on his door he welcomed us in, saying, "I was just about to lay down and take a nap. I'm pretty tired, it's good to see you boys though!" and then he put us to work. About 10 minutes later, he was out on his lawn tractor mowing the lawn. Old people have such an awesome work ethic. "Yeah, I was about to take a nap, but since you young boys are working, I guess I can get out and work a little too." What a champ.
Later, as we were working, Brian's friend Rick came over and helped us. After working for a while he stopped us and said, "What do you do when you don't feel like the church you're a part of is right? I joined the Catholic church for my wife, but I just don't feel right about it. What's your church like? I need to find a church." So that was cool.
Thursday: Went to Willard on exchanges. Guess they've been having trouble getting new people to teach and stuff, so we kinda drove around and did a bunch of drop bys. Had a sweet awesome dinner though, so that was cool. But it was also lame because Elder Allred had a sweet day here. Apparently he was calling out cray Brother Lamb for trying to preach his false doctrine and things got pretty heated, then later they invited Melvin and Nikita to be baptized and they said yes! So yeah, that was super duper awesome.
Friday: Went to Eldorado (by the way, that's pronounced El-do-ray-do out here.) That kinda stunk. It was really slow and we had a hard time catching people at home. The good news is we went to a Chinese Buffet for lunch and an eight year old Asian boy sat us. Then he was playing with his six year old sister the whole time. It was funny. Pretty sure it was illegal, but I loved it. We saw a less-active guy and called him to repentance. You know, the usual.
Saturday: Gave a blessing to an investigator first thing, and then went to work on the Ranch and do a bunch of servive. We moved an air conditioner and then wrassled some pigs. Then it started pouring. Then we had to fill the font for a baptism. Active kid's baptism, but it was the Pulsiphers and we love them so we did them a solid. Plus we're pros at it. We were supposed to have a dinner but they never called us back, so we went to this little cafe. Literally about 2 minutes after they gave us our food our dinner called. And we got burgers and fries, so you can't exactly take that to go and heat it up later. So that was awesome. Two dinners. The good news is, when we went to the members house, we spent about 20 minutes visiting, with the mother and her son, and then the father came in. He was wearing cut off jean shorts that went about halfway down his thighs and his mesh garment top. So he ate dinner like that and then rushed us out so he could go fishing in his pond. Good stuff. Transfer calls came, and it was bittersweet.
Sunday: Went to Ward Council, then church, then got to say bye to people and go to the Brigances for dinner which is always a hoot. I'll be really sad to leave these people, but boy am I ready to leave this town behind haha.
That was the week! Keep being awesome peeps. Thanks for the e-mails and letters! I'm going to be better about writing back! Love you!
Elder Christopher Drake
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