This week has been a roller coaster of a week. A lot of success and a lot of non-success, I am sick right now with a pretty bad sore throat. But let me start near the beginning of the week. SO we have been using our phone book that we created and it has been working really well. We found a man named Bruce off of that list and he and his family just moved here from Taiwan and they don't really know anyone around here yet, he is really interested in learning more and also in coming to our English class that we provide every week. He was originally going to try and make it to our Branch Christmas party but he ended up not being able to, but we will be seeing him again soon!
As you could tell we had our Branch Christmas party this week and they created a program that walked everyone through the story of Christ's birth, and I was chosen to be one of the wise men, and we sang "Three Kings of the Orient", it was me, our branch president, and another brother from our branch and it turned out really well! This week as we were tracting in an area we ran into a man who was probably one of the rudest people I have met on my mission, he yelled at us for about 15 minutes and told us to get out of his neighborhood or he would call the Police...even if he called the Police we weren't doing anything wrong so they couldn't do anything to us....the man was probably just having a bad day and used us as a punching bag to vent frustration but it was ridiculous. I just politely told the man that we were allowed to be there but if he really wanted us to go we didn't want to argue so we would leave and then we started walking back to our car and he followed us all the way back to our car screaming and yelling and cussing us out telling us we are a cult....I don't why people have to act like that, but what made it more sad was that he was doing this and saying all of this in front of his little daughter. I hope whatever caused him to be that angry that day will get better so he can enjoy the Holidays.
On the other hand the work in the Branch has been increasing and I am so happy to be working with this Branch mission leader! The members are starting to understand a little more of how they can work together to invite their friends out to church and helping investigators feel welcome. I love this work! I got sick this week, I have a pretty bad sore throat, so if you could all pray that I can get better faster that would be greatly appreciated. I love you all!!
Christmas is coming fast!! Have a happy holiday!
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