Week of Oct 10th

This week the mailbox received an email from Richard, Mom had asked him to look for someone she worked for years with who has moved to the area he is in.   This is the actual entire body of that email.

"I ran into her at church yesterday and we said hi and just talked about how you two used to work together.  I need to meet up with her and talk some more though."

She sent back a quick response telling him that better not be the whole letter for the week.

This week has been going great. So far I have been out trackting nearly everywhere in our area, from the well off areas to the ghetto. So far, I think I like the ghetto more, they are more receptive. I had one person, who was drunk as could be, tell Elder Turner and me that we have "a lot of guts and a lot of BALLS (he was very emphatic about that) coming into a place like this, but you have God with you." I am not sure if I should have been a little worried than I was, but for some reason I was not afraid at all, Elder turner was scared and not sure what to do. He was giving us a lot of crap and just joking around with us in the same manner that usually happens back at home. The members are feeding us well, some a little to well, and we usually have dinner appointments every night. When we had dinner with the Chan's, Brother Chan gave me about twice as much as I can normally eat. Just as I am finishing up and thinking "I can do this," my companion gets more and Brother Chan loads about as much onto my plate as he did the first time. Thankfully, no one at the table was able to finish what was on their plate, although I had the most followed closely by Elder Tuner who had about as much loaded onto his plate as I did the second time. After I was so full that I thought I would not be able to move, Sister Chan brought out bowls of icecream for the two of us. That was a fun dinner and we will be going back for dinner with them on Thursday. I pray I don't pop eating all that food. I was also fed a "Green Meal," I will send you a picture next week if I remember to bring my camera and sd card addapter, I left both at the apartment. I love you all, tell Elders Reid and Meade that I said hi and that I now have about fifty "I wonder if this is the same..." questions to ask them now, and I will talk to you next week.

 

All my love,

Elder Rawlings

 

As you can see, he is doing fine and enjoying things there.