August 10, 2009

This week was good. We got 2 really solid member referals (Mike and Tom). We taught Tom yesterday and it went really well. Of course, it doesn't hurt that hes dating one of the members in the ward :) The other one is a member's brother who said he wants to take the lessons now(after 8 years of his brother and mom being members). Looks like thats our calling here in Racine, teach people who have been exposed to the Gospel forever, but never met with missionaries before. So far, so good. Everything is going good with George, hes asked us over again for next week to discuss why there has to be an organized religion on earth. Should be a good step for him. Last week we got to go to the zoo, which is surprisingly large for a city of only 80,000. It has all the big animals; giraffes, rhinos, zebras, lions, and tigers, and bears. O MY! And it even has a fennic fox, so I enjoyed it. This P-day we went to this rich dentist guys house to watch the 'Testaments' on his home theatre. It was awsesome. When I say home theatre, I mean home theatre. HUGE projector screen, blue-ray, leveled seating (leather), and lights that dimmed. Then he took us to lunch at Red Robins, very good. Sorry about the toe and the humiddity. Its pretty hot here now. Last Saturday it was so humid, Elder Stribling and I were sweating like pigs just walking down the street tracking (not too attractive to open the door to 2 sweating young men). It was so humid we could actually see the water in the air, it looked like a white haze. Todays actually not THAT bad, but still hot. Actually we liked that street. It had two types of people on it; the ones who wanted us back, and the ones who didn't want to listen at all. The later actally saved us a lot of time. When we walked up to one guys's driveway he actually came out of his house to tell us he wasn't interested, saved us the walk up the driveway and the knuckle pain of knocking :) Yesterday was interesting too. While we were at church a huge storm blew thruogh, causing the power to go out in some areas. Funny enough It also made the traffic lights go out, so on the way home we hit a 4-way intersection that had 6 lanes on each street (total of 24 lanes!). It turned into a Soeul-esk moment where anyone who was brave enough to go across the whole intersection did, and those who were scardy cats were sitting there for hours. Long story short, it got our hearts beating.