The Whipper Snipper

I don't have as much to email about this week. We'll start off with a new avoidance tactic for door knockers! If you have dogs and don't like door knockers, this is just for you! We were door knocking the other day, and just as I thought we were about to teach a lesson to this one guy at the door, he said, "One second, let me put my dogs inside", and then carried his dogs up some stairs in his house... and never came back down. We waited for a few minutes, then a few more minutes, and a few more minutes, then left a pamphlet at the door and left. As we passed by his house on the way back, we saw that the pamphlet was still there, but the door was closed... thought it was kinda funny, and definitely a new tactic we haven't seen before.

Another highlight is that we had dinner with a family from our ward who has four exchange students living with them - 3 from China and 1 from Japan. They cooked "hot pot" for us, which was really cool; there was a boiling pot of some soup stuff in the middle, and they'd put meat and vegetables inside, then you take it out when it's ready and dip it into some paste thing in a bowl in front of you then eat it. Different, but good!

We also got a call from a member on Saturday, saying that a random person from their community posted on the community facebook page that they needed some help mowing their lawn. The member saw, contacted us, and so we borrowed her "whipper snipper" (weed wacker) and got to work. That was no average lawn though. One part of it was more like a forest. As we were hacking away at that grass, it started pouring too, making the job even more fun! It was quite a project, and after two hours, we couldn't finish it. So We came back on monday, and had a member bring some machine that was part whipper snipper part lawn mower, and it was a monster. It just destroyed the rest of the grass - in a good way. So that was fun! 

And lastly, we got to meet a nonmember at church who came with his friend from Colorado. We ended up going over to give his friend a blessing before she left to go back home, and ended up teaching him a little and talking about his experience at church - we're going back to teach later!

Anyways, thanks everyone for your love and support!

Elder Ho