I am indeed being transferred this Wednesday. The word on the street is that I'll be going to Pleasant Ridge South which is a Spanish area near Knoxville. So it'll kinda be towards the heart of the mission.
It's been a pretty tame week. Our investigator, Sue, has a baptismal date for August 11th though. Hooray! She was a referral that we got from Elder LeSueur over in East Ridge (an adjacent area) where she works. But she lives in our area and so we've been teaching her and she is loving it and doing so great. At first, we were having trouble getting in contact with her because her son and sister were pretty antagonistic, but we stopped by one day and she wasn't home and we ended up talking to the son (cause I'm smooth like that) and now he's on board! We'll probably start trying to focus on teaching him as well soon. But yeah, she went to church this past week and told us the next day that she was just feeling so great. Elder Busch told her it was the Spirit. She's going to be baptized. I just know it. She was a little sad when she found out I was leaving too. She was like "Will you get to come back when I get baptized?" I'm going to try my darndest.
They Yeager family is a referral from a member in our ward who we've been working with for most of the time that I've been here in Harrison Bay. Last week we taught them the Word of Wisdom, which is the only commandment with issues that would keep them from being baptized at this point, and it went really well. But they didn't make it to church this week... oh well.
I don't want to talk about anyone else. They haven't met with us recently so whatever...
So we helped a less active lady clean out some things in her home last week and.... well, long story short, there's a package headed back home with my name on it that includes such gems as a soldering iron, Hardy Boys books (I love mysteries...), and some guitar strings. No big deal.
I actually almost got a drumset a couple times this past week... I don't know how, but you can bet I'll take one if I can get one and send that home.
Doug is absolutely correct. Fast and Testimony Sunday can be a HUGE gamble, and that's not a game I like to play as a missionary, so I got up there and bore my testimony so it would start off well at least. It turned out to be an incredible testimony meeting. The best a missionary can ask for. So that's the message, if any of you reading this email are that WEIRDO that messes up fast and testimony meeting for the missionaries by... I dunno... doing whatever it is you do, then heed the council of a modern day apostle and "Stop it." (Dieter F. Uchtdorf) Thanks.
This week was indeed a good week for mail. keep it up team.
I was unable to acquire a roman candle last week, but I did burn a tie. I guess I'm still 'new' though cause I chose to burn a polyester tie. It's a five minute video now. Sorry about that... I'll figure out hows to send it to you. Hopefully the computers in my next area aren't running Windows XP with all the good features turned off...
We were tracting and Elder Busch asked if they had time to hear our message and the lady just said "I'm baptist" and closed the door, but before the door was closed he was like "No time for Jesus?" and just stood there for a couple seconds after the door was closed. Then we left. Whether the lady heard him say it or not is beside the point because she obviously wasn't listening as you can tell from her response to Elder Busch's question... but I thought it was hilarious anyway.
I had to get me a pair of Ray-Bans last week cause the sun is rough out here. It turns out that I look real good in the tortoise shell ones. Whod've thought?
No groceries this month.
Scripture of the week is 2 Nephi 4:28. I don't feel like expounding though.
I heard a bunch of fireworks on the 4th, but I didn't see any. Oh well.
Is it obvious that I don't have much to say about this week?
Okay, well, sorry. Hopefully there'll be some better stuff next week.
Love,
Elder Grabinger
P.S. How's Romney doing? Thinks still looking good? You can bet I heard about Obamacare being upheld in the Supreme Court...
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