Hot and Humid Describes It
Hot and Humid pretty much describe this last week…the City had a heat advisary warning for a couple days and even for one day, Missionaries could not ride bikes from 12 noon to 6 in the evening (didn’t affect me…hehehe). Yup, I have made sure to drink tons of water and put sunscreen on before I go out to work. Although, sometimes, it doesn’t quite function well, because I sweat so much. But Thank You Mom for suppflying with the “Super Sweat-Proof” sunscreen, it has helped a lot. So, it got to about a 100 for a couple days with the heat index going 105+ with the humidity. It truely felt like I was walking in an oven for most of the day. Other than that, the work went pretty well this past week.
On Wednesday (probably the hottest day of ‘em all), we walked out to a neighborhood that is close by to try to find some Hispanic houses. We didn’t have that much luck at first, we found one lady on one of the streets and none on another we tracted. At that point, we decided to go back to one of the streets that we had skipped to begin with. So, we returned and started walking down this street. We didn’t see any houses that showed signs of hispanics and we were about to give up, until I spotted in a backyard, a truck with some ladders and tools. Surely, a sign of a hispanic roofer. So, we decided to knock and found out that indeed it was a hispanic roofer! So, we taught him the 1st lesson (his name is Jorge), and extended invitation to come to church and he excepted, and was generally excited about what we taught. We concluded with a prayer, and before we went out the door, he told us he wanted to do this to help distract him from drinking alcohol. He told us we were like angels, coming to help him fight his addiction and that no one had come to his house before like us. It was really kind of cool. We kept contact with him throughout the rest of the week, a couple of the appointments fell through, and he wasn’t able to make it to church because he had family over. Nonetheless, we will continue to try to teach him because it seems he does have a desire to change.
It was pretty cool at church also, because we had a member bring an inactive and her non-member husband. We were able to teach them during church, and he seemed to really enjoy his time there. It was kind of odd, because originally, we only started with like 5 people at church, but more came later on (cause everyone is always late). I think we might have had around 30-35 in sacrament (a definant improvement over 22 last week). We also had a good testimony meeting, I bore mine about the power and influence of the Holy Ghost. I really have come to known that we know we are being lead by the Spirit not by the impressions we recieve, but that we are doing the right things. It mentions several times in the scriptures that all good things come from God and all bad things come from Satan. Therefore, if we strive to do the things that would closen our relationship to Christ, we know we are being guided by the Spirit.
It sounds like Mom, Dad and Julie are having a really good time in Taiwan, and getting a little taste of what we go through here…walking all day in the hot, humid streets of another country (The South is really another country). I am just jealous of all of the great food they are eating (I still remember last year eating that chinese food in Vancouver). It sounds like they are having a trip of a lifetime, with Dad even making plans to go to Europe next year…that would be sweet!!
Anyways, things are going good here in Wilson, it’s definately a way different experience than the city (Cary and Raleigh). It’s a good change but it gets tedious sometimes, trying to visit the same people in the same places. We try to make it fun, we do talk to some crazy people too…
Take Care Everyone,
Elder Hardy