Sept.
3, 2013
Hey guys,
So I did not send
out a message last week so I will explain some of the stuff that happened then
too. I want to start off with the dinner we had with the S’ family.
So the S’s are members that we had been trying to find for a long time to no avail.
Well we finally succeeded and they were very happy to see us and invited us to
come back for dinner. As we left they gave us a bunch of cherry tomatoes
and some cayenne peppers. We kind of put the peppers out of our mind
until a couple of hours right before we were about to go visit that
family. We decided that we had to at least try them before we went to
their house for dinner so we can tell them how they were.
They were hot,
really hot. I was fine after a little while but Elder Griffin got a stomach
ache almost immediately after eating it. Well after he got better we went
to the dinner which was really good and then we were told to do something we
had never heard of before. After we had finished eating they told us it
was time for us to sing for our food.
Elder Griffin and I looked at
each other very confused and asked them what they meant. Brother Shienberg told us that some
of the sister missionaries in the past told him that we are supposed to sing
for our food. After much persuasion we sung the song "God Be With
You Till We Meet Again." We decided to sing this to them because just a
couple of nights earlier I found out that I would be leaving Manchester soon to
serve in another area.
Well I am now no
longer in the great area of Manchester anymore. Now
I am in the Ashford area, which just so happens to be the area right next
to Manchester. So I may
have mentioned how much of a foresty area my last area was, the difference here
in Ashford is now it feels like we are travelling in Jumanji.
My new address is now 149 Ashford
Center Rd. Apt. C6 Ashford, Connecticut 06278 and if you
were to Google this address you might just find a bunch of trees in the middle
of nowhere.
Although I have
been here for 3 1/2 days there have been some crazy cool experiences that have
happened. So both of these stories happened because we have been
walking. And although I am not in a walking area we have no miles because
we have to use our miles just to get to meetings because we are so far away
from everyone else. So my new companion, Elder Graff, and I were walking
to a less-active members home when all of a sudden a car pulls off the road in
front of us and the man inside asks us "Hey are you the Mormon
missionaries?" We said yes and he told us that he heard that we do
service and he wanted us to come by some time to help him with some
stuff. We said we would love to, but then he stopped us and said the real
reason he wants us over is because he wants to go over some of Smith's writings
with us. He told us about how a friend of his gave him a Book of Mormon
and he started reading it and was interested and confused about some things.
Now at this point we were just
trying to keep our cool so we didn't scare him off, after he left Elder Graff
and I had to make sure that it all really happened. So we made it to the
member’s house, but unfortunately they were not there. So we then started
to walk to the next less-active’s house. On the way there we found a gas
station, and by this point Elder Graff was pretty thirsty from walking all
day. So we went in to buy some drinks.
While we were figuring out
what we wanted a man walked in and said "Well what do you know it is the
Mormon missionaries." We started talking to him and it turns out
that he had met with the missionaries a long time ago and for one reason or
another stopped. We asked him if we could come by some time and talk with
him about religion and he said that would be fine if he could feed us and buy
our drinks for us. We ended up taking him up on his offer and told him
that we would call him on the day he told us to.
From this
experience I learned how much preparation the Lord puts into each person so
that they can be ready to find the gospel. Many people might think that
we were in the right place and at the right time and they are right but what I
do know is it was not because of luck that we were there. We met these
people because we were doing what the Lord wanted us to at that moment in
time. Which was walking on the street in the sun, because we have no
miles on our car. I hope that as I spend more time in this area that I
will be able to tell you about how these two appointments go. Until then.
Elder Erb
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