We had a bunch of random experiences this past week, so I have stuff to email about now! We'll start off with a referral that we got. We got this referral saying that someone had some questions and was hoping they could meet with the missionaries! So we went to the address which was given to us, #30 on one of the streets in our area. When we got there, we realised that there were 11 #30's on that street - it was a bunch of units. So we had to knock each one, asking if they knew the person we were looking for. Well, at #8/30 this lady answers the door, which kinda a crazed/angry look on her face, and angrily asks who we are. After trying to explain who we were, she started yelling at us to leave, and when we said we need help looking for someone, she started yelling "your not looking for anyone! You're trying to steal from me!" and other random statements. So we quickly walked away, and I told my companion, "well, we know for sure that our referral is not at #8/30". I thought to myself, "I'm never coming back to this house again". We couldn't find the person we were looking for, so we planned on coming back later to knock the rest of the doors that didn't answer. Later on in the week, we get a call from the sister missionaries, saying that our referral called them! She said she was really sorry, and wanted us to come back, and that her mother in law was the one that had yelled at us until we left... so just a few days later, there we were again, knocking on #8/30. Turned out much better this time, but she wanted sisters to visit her, so we referred her to the sisters.
We also went on tradeoffs with the AP's this past week! We went to visit this excommunicated lady that we met a while ago on our last tradeoffs. One our way there though, we saw this old, skinny man, with kinda long white hair, and a white moustache and beard. We talked to him for a bit, and I could smell a bit of alcohol in his breath. He said some interesting things, and sang us some lines from some Christian songs that he wrote. Kinda whispered them, to a tune. It was kinda weird. But the whole time I couldn't help but stare at this bee that was sitting on the back of his head. As he sang. As he talked. It just chilled there. I was worried it would sting him, but I didn't want to interrupt his song, and maybe it was his pet or something. Or mistook his off white hair for some flower or pollen. Anyways, he left us with his blessing and we moved on.
Also met this guy while door knocking who's part of the Sikh religion. Had a good chat with him about our beliefs. Then, randomly, he said something like, "I'm not really religious", then lifted up his shirt and showed us a dagger that was tucked away in his pants. Not to sure what that meant. But we kept talking, and then left a few minutes later. So there's another random experience for you all.
Got to do a bit of service throughout the week, which included mowing lawns and helping people move. The usual! Few words of advice - don't let your lawns go unmowed for months - it makes the job a lot more difficult than it has to be.
Onto the food subject! A dinner fell through one night so we ended up going to this awesome Samoan family's house for dinner! They got us KFC - every missionaries delicacy, and also cooked us "kekepuaa". Not sure if I spelled that right. Back home, we call it manapua! Haven't had it in ages, and haven't ever had a homemade one before, and it tasted really good! For those who don't know what it is, it's like a special dumpling bread thing filled with, usually, pork in the middle! Sorry, not the best at explaining it, but it tasted good!
On the teaching side of things, went to follow up on someone we met a while ago, who was given a copy of the Book of Mormon by her neighbour! Unfortunately, the visit was mostly about her talking about all these videos she watches on youtube and facebook about everything from political conspiracy theories to the world being flat, and she tried to get our email or facebook so that she could send us this video that, well, would basically tell us "why our church is evil". Yeah, no thanks! Haven't used facebook in 2 years, and I'm not about to start using it again now just to watch some weird anti-mormon video she found. So yeah, don't think we'll be going back there again. But we can learn a valuable lesson from her! It's about the Book of Mormon. After asking her if she's read it, she said, "no", and that she'll never read it. Sometimes I tell people that I like to eat octopus back home, and they gross out, but when asking if they've had it, they say they never have! And so I always wonder, how can you judge something if you haven't tried it! If you aren't reading the Book of Mormon, your missing out! Doesn't matter if you've read it once already, or if you've read it heaps, my invitation - just keep reading.
Well, that's my email for today, sorry it was kinda all over. Thanks everyone for your love and support!
-Elder Ho
Hiking Pictures from last P-day
Disclaimer: No swimming was done, I promise. Socks may have gotten a little wet though.
Me and my comp
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