Week 6: Harvest Week (Hastings)

People what is up?

It seemed like a quick week did it Not? Well maybe not for you guys since you get to enjoy freaking March madness! Are you kidding me?!?! The games this year are amazing! Hope you all are watching extra just for me!

So I have finally figured out why people in our ward don't seem to great. It's because the missionaries in the past were terrible. Like for a good while they haven't has good missionaries here. We had 6 dinner appointments in a row this week! The members really like us and know we're legit unlike those in the past. We don't have as many scheduled this week, but they definitely like us more in 3 weeksthan they did others in months. So that's pretty amazing! After dinner at our bishops house Wednesday we were walking home when brother Marshall called us. Now brother Marshall and his family remind me of the honey boo boo family, but instead he is the mom. They have like 8 pets and they literally live in a pig sty. Like imagine hoarders hurried alive and that's them. Anyways he called us and seemed very frantic saying he needed us immediately, so he said he would come pick us up. Meanwhile my companion and i are thinking we are about to give a blessing (Brother Marshall doesn't have the priesthood) and getting ourselves prepared. He pulls up and skids to a stop and says hurry get in! While driving he told us the story that a local shop got all their deliveries of sandwiches on the same day and were selling them for 20 pence (about a quarter) and they bought 60 pounds worth (about $80) of them. He needed us to come take some home because he had already eaten about 10 and couldn't handle it. So that was that night... They are literally the funniest group of people I have ever seen in my life.

On Thursday we met a man named Samule from Ethiopia! He doesn't speak the best English and can only read Amharic! But he came to church on Sunday and seemed to like it and we taught him yesterday again. He accepted a baptismal date... We think. It's hard teaching him and getting him to understand everything clearly but we are working on it.

We had dinner with an older woman Thursday night and she took us out which was awesome. We got some fat bacon burgers, fries, and onion rings!! She hooked it up real nice and went on to tell us her life story and how the missionaries in the past nobody liked and how much she liked us already! She's so great and we have dinner with her next week as Well! Her name is sister brown and she's my nana for while I'm here and I'm not even mad!

Friday we had a teach in a nearby town with a man named Dave who's in his 70's. He literally talked the whole time and we could barely say anything. Basically he told us at the end of it that he was never gonna change what he believes so that was a bust... Oh well

Friday and Saturday were nothing special and our dinner appointments were with some weird people, but hey you gotta love them and the food!

Sunday we had Samule and a guy named James show up to church. We had never met James but he just showed up. I guess he has come before and decided he wanted to come. He's a really odd dude who wants to start his own yoga religion, but hey he was still at church. There was a munch and mingle after church but we were fasting so we didn't get to participate. The members hooked it up though and gave us a lot of the leftovers that we devoured after our fast. We were fasting for the harvest week.

Harvest week is where everybody in the entire mission focuses on getting as many friends in one week. Our zone has a goal of 90 friends in one week, which is 10 per companionship. It's definitely tough but we've already got 4 so far. Not sure how solid they all are but it's just a big push week. That's what we are doing this whole week basically is just finding!

We do have interviews at presidents house tomorrow as a zone which should be fun. It's always nice when you get together in a big group with everyone!

I appreciate the prayers from everyone... I can definitely feel the power of them helping me through!! I love you all and miss you all so much. You guys are the best and I'm blessed to have you guys in my life!

With love,
Elder Hruby