Hey guys! So the highlight of this week was that Theresa got baptized!
She is someone the Sisters have been teaching and we have been to a
few of the lessons. Before the Sisters came the Elders were teaching
her and they set the date with her. She is super ready and she was so
excited to be baptized! After she was baptized she was able to bear
her testimony and talk about how she got introduced to the church and
She is someone the Sisters have been teaching and we have been to a
few of the lessons. Before the Sisters came the Elders were teaching
her and they set the date with her. She is super ready and she was so
excited to be baptized! After she was baptized she was able to bear
her testimony and talk about how she got introduced to the church and
then she sang us a little song called "Thank you Lord." She was originally
going to go to church in Sierra Leone but that day was when the war
broke out there and she eventually came to America and was able to get
in contact with missionaries again, but unfortunately lost contact
with them too. Her sister is a member too and through her she was
reintroduced to the missionaries again and was just baptized.
A lot of the African people have crazy stories like that and some have
family still in Africa and it is sad to see. One of our investigators,
Cecil, has a crazy story too and I like how Elder Harper described it.
He said he is like the Forrest Gump of Africa. He has been shot at and
has met the Pope in Italy and was able to come to America and all this
crazy stuff. A recent convert in the Shingle Creek ward, named Flomo Pewee,
has family still back in Liberia. Flomo is the coolest though and
found the church online and then was baptized a month later. I was
able to teach him last week on exchanges and he is the nicest guy ever
and his family in Africa has now started meeting with the missionaries
there! It is so cool!
I love the African people, but I am not the fondest of their food.
This week we had two dinners with African food and we are going to go
again on Wednesday. We had Peanut butter soup with Theresa this week
and it is made with peanut butter and peppers on rice. I think there
is more in it, but it wasn't my favorite. Elder Harper gave me a tip
to put chapstick on before eating and it doesn't hurt your lips. We
had dinner with the Kingleys and the Sisters and had Pepper Soup and
Fufu. Pepper soup is pretty much really hot sauce on meat and in this
case it was goat meat. And I don't even know what fufu is so y'all will
have to look it up. Fufu has probably been my least favorite so far.
It is cool to be able to experience the different culture though.
We were able to set another date with a guy named Robert and it was
our first time meeting him. He was a referral from mormon.org and he
seems solid. He has one eye so that is kind of cool. He wasn't able to
come to church this week, but next week. In fact that is what all of
our investigators have said, not this week but next. It gets a little
frustrating when you just need them to come so that they can just
start getting all these blessings and make their lives just so much
better. We have 6 people that we have set for baptism, but none of
them are progressing towards it yet. I know they will though and maybe
when I am not here, but thats fine.
This week we haven't had the car much since the other Elders have had
to use it for New missionary training on Wednesday and MLC on
Thursday. So both those days we had to bike and had to cancel an
appointment because of it. We had two appointments that were going to
be close and we couldn't do both on bikes. On the bright side we got
more miles per month now. Before we had 400 and now we have 600! That
will be really nice!
So one night we went to go have dinner at the Fudges. Brother Fudge is
the Elders Quorum president and he got a call from a member in the
ward asking for help. Brother Downs is a disabled man and can't really
walk and always rides his scooter thing around the halls. Well he left
his wallet on the Metro Mobility bus, which is a way for handicapped
people to get rides to places. Well we had to go with Brother Fudge
and pick up Brother Downs and we had to go to down to Minneapolis to
go find his wallet. It wasn't really that far since we practically
live in Minneapolis, but we got right up close to the skyscrapers and
stuff. So that was cool. Then we went back to have dinner and I
spilled Hot Chocolate all over my lap. It was so great haha... we even got
to have a light saber fight with a 5 year old so that was the best.
The Ap's came to our apartment randomly one day and they started
talking to us and then after a bit they asked if Elder Harper was all
packed. Elder Harper was a little confused. Well he is actually
getting transferred up to Thunder Bay and the Ap's were coming to pick
him up and take him there. Just kidding the Ap's were trying to
convince him though. They did a really good job though and they even
started folding his blankets and offered to help him pack. They were
really just there because they had an investigator that was in the
hospital and they were going to see her and they just wanted to stop
by and say hi!
On Saturday we went to wal mart and got us some fishing licenses and
we went this morning with Brother Shepard on the Mississippi River by
the Coon Rapids Dam. Sadly Brother Shepard only caught one and we
didn't see another fish all morning. It was nice to get out though and
just be outside and it was like 50 to 55 degrees this morning. We did
get a cop that came down and check our licenses and said that as we were
crossing the bridge we looked a little nervous, but everything was
good and he left. We are going to have Zone p day today so we couldn't
go fishing all day which is lame, but it is what it is haha so today
might be a little crazy to email everyone, but I will do my best!
Well thats all I got for ya! I will talk to y'all next week!
Elder Bullock
going to go to church in Sierra Leone but that day was when the war
broke out there and she eventually came to America and was able to get
in contact with missionaries again, but unfortunately lost contact
with them too. Her sister is a member too and through her she was
reintroduced to the missionaries again and was just baptized.
A lot of the African people have crazy stories like that and some have
family still in Africa and it is sad to see. One of our investigators,
Cecil, has a crazy story too and I like how Elder Harper described it.
He said he is like the Forrest Gump of Africa. He has been shot at and
has met the Pope in Italy and was able to come to America and all this
crazy stuff. A recent convert in the Shingle Creek ward, named Flomo Pewee,
has family still back in Liberia. Flomo is the coolest though and
found the church online and then was baptized a month later. I was
able to teach him last week on exchanges and he is the nicest guy ever
and his family in Africa has now started meeting with the missionaries
there! It is so cool!
I love the African people, but I am not the fondest of their food.
This week we had two dinners with African food and we are going to go
again on Wednesday. We had Peanut butter soup with Theresa this week
and it is made with peanut butter and peppers on rice. I think there
is more in it, but it wasn't my favorite. Elder Harper gave me a tip
to put chapstick on before eating and it doesn't hurt your lips. We
had dinner with the Kingleys and the Sisters and had Pepper Soup and
Fufu. Pepper soup is pretty much really hot sauce on meat and in this
case it was goat meat. And I don't even know what fufu is so y'all will
have to look it up. Fufu has probably been my least favorite so far.
It is cool to be able to experience the different culture though.
We were able to set another date with a guy named Robert and it was
our first time meeting him. He was a referral from mormon.org and he
seems solid. He has one eye so that is kind of cool. He wasn't able to
come to church this week, but next week. In fact that is what all of
our investigators have said, not this week but next. It gets a little
frustrating when you just need them to come so that they can just
start getting all these blessings and make their lives just so much
better. We have 6 people that we have set for baptism, but none of
them are progressing towards it yet. I know they will though and maybe
when I am not here, but thats fine.
This week we haven't had the car much since the other Elders have had
to use it for New missionary training on Wednesday and MLC on
Thursday. So both those days we had to bike and had to cancel an
appointment because of it. We had two appointments that were going to
be close and we couldn't do both on bikes. On the bright side we got
more miles per month now. Before we had 400 and now we have 600! That
will be really nice!
So one night we went to go have dinner at the Fudges. Brother Fudge is
the Elders Quorum president and he got a call from a member in the
ward asking for help. Brother Downs is a disabled man and can't really
walk and always rides his scooter thing around the halls. Well he left
his wallet on the Metro Mobility bus, which is a way for handicapped
people to get rides to places. Well we had to go with Brother Fudge
and pick up Brother Downs and we had to go to down to Minneapolis to
go find his wallet. It wasn't really that far since we practically
live in Minneapolis, but we got right up close to the skyscrapers and
stuff. So that was cool. Then we went back to have dinner and I
spilled Hot Chocolate all over my lap. It was so great haha... we even got
to have a light saber fight with a 5 year old so that was the best.
The Ap's came to our apartment randomly one day and they started
talking to us and then after a bit they asked if Elder Harper was all
packed. Elder Harper was a little confused. Well he is actually
getting transferred up to Thunder Bay and the Ap's were coming to pick
him up and take him there. Just kidding the Ap's were trying to
convince him though. They did a really good job though and they even
started folding his blankets and offered to help him pack. They were
really just there because they had an investigator that was in the
hospital and they were going to see her and they just wanted to stop
by and say hi!
On Saturday we went to wal mart and got us some fishing licenses and
we went this morning with Brother Shepard on the Mississippi River by
the Coon Rapids Dam. Sadly Brother Shepard only caught one and we
didn't see another fish all morning. It was nice to get out though and
just be outside and it was like 50 to 55 degrees this morning. We did
get a cop that came down and check our licenses and said that as we were
crossing the bridge we looked a little nervous, but everything was
good and he left. We are going to have Zone p day today so we couldn't
go fishing all day which is lame, but it is what it is haha so today
might be a little crazy to email everyone, but I will do my best!
Well thats all I got for ya! I will talk to y'all next week!
Elder Bullock
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