In about a week it'll be the 3 month mark! That means I'm done with training. And now I can be a normal missionary. Who knows what'll happen after this, transfer weeks bring many surprises. There are many missionaries who sometimes get split trained, meaning They got a different companion during their first 3 months, so who knows what'll happen.
I can't believe it's already P-day again, I don't even know what to say. Here goes nothing.
So last week was dealing with Winterstorm Pax, this week was perfect sunny, 75, slight breeze kinda weather. We were passing High Point University on our bikes one day and all the college students were having beach parties. Bathing suits, volleyball, tailgates, BBQ's, all in the middle of February. Craziness.
We are getting closer and closer to baptizing Maurice! If you don't remember him or I've failed to mention him before he's a 19 year old kid who was found by missionaries like 3 transfers ago (a transfer is 6-weeks mind you). When I came we tried to find him but he had dropped off of the face of the planet, up until about 2 weeks ago. We've been re-teaching him some stuff but to know avail because he remembers it all! Now we just have to wait for him to come to church one more time and he will hopefully be baptized on the 8th. However, our Zone Leaders are having a baptism that day. No problem right? Well they called us and said to move it because they already have a spot and there will be basketball that morning and a ward activity that night. One: basketball doesn't take the whole building. Two: they could have easliy just tried to work it out. We could have done it at the same time, just use the same font for different people, that happens all the time. But no they just called and said we had to move it. Why can't they move theirs? I dunno. It's frustrating because it's my first baptism but we have to probably wait until the next week. We're trying to get it to happen on Friday the 7th, but either way just keep us all in your prayers! Maurice needs this!
We also met this guy named Joe. He's not close. Here's why: We found him walking into the Library yesterday so we stopped him as we were walking past. He says he had met with missionaries before, but I'm not sure. Joe is very old. And he's crazy. When we found him he was chewing on leaves. He literally picked them up off the sidewalk and started chewing on them one at a time. Crazy. So we went into the library and started talking to him. He seemed to understand just fine until we asked him to pray about Joseph Smith. He sat there for a couple seconds, looked at us like there were aliens jumping out of our noses, and just stood up and walked away. Just walked away. We never saw Joe again. So there's that fun story!
Love you all,
Elder Matthew Gardner
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