I don't usually post Joshua's full emails anymore, but it's been a while and today for some reason, I felt like I should. We got to Skype with him yesterday for Mother's Day, which was SO awesome, and it was clear to me that he is doing amazingly well. He is happy, confident, and totally on fire for what he is doing. I am so very proud of him. :)
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Week 81
This week was sweet! We were really busy this week with some realllllyyyy long meetings haha, so there's not a lot to share, but I'll tell you about a few of the highlights!
Monday:
The weather finally started getting nice! Woohoo! I love it! Even though short sleeved white button up shirts make you look like a dorky 20 year old boy scout*, they're really nice to have when it gets hot! haha
Tuesday-Wednesday:
I went on exchanges with Elder J again, (he's the one who came out with me). He's so sick! I LOVE that kid! He's way humble and he's just fun to talk to, so we had a lot of fun working together and talking throughout the day. We gave a lesson at a member's house (for dinner) about the Atonement and then talked about family history and they LOVED IT. They loved it so much that they told our mission president about it hahaha. Woohoo!
We talked to a bunch of kids on campus at UWM. There was this one kid named T that we were talking to for like 15 minutes. He was SWEET! We were teaching him the Restoration, and RIGHT when I got to the story of Joseph Smith's First Vision and he was feeling the Spirit HARDCORE, the bus he was waiting for pulled up and started driving away!!! So he ran in front of the bus to stop it, then hopped on and we never got a chance to give him a Book of Mormon, a card or ANYTHING!!! Dang it!!!!!!! It was pretty funny actually how it all worked out, but it was really frustrating!
Thursday-Friday:
I went on exchanges with Elder G. He's SICK!!! We ate at the family's house that we ate at last time. The mom's name is A. She's Filipino and AWESOME. She made us some really good curry. The next day, we went and contacted some people and tracted and street contacted between visits. The first door we knocked, a young Hmong guy let us in. He was with his two kids and he was just about to go to work. We taught him about family history and the importance of keeping records and then taught about the Book of Mormon. He seemed to really like it, so we set up an appointment with him for this week! Hopefully the elders can start teaching the whole family! :)
As we were street contacting, we were just BOLD. It was sweet. We talked to lots of people and a few of them were really interesting....... but it was definitely fun hahaha. One of the people we visited is a Jehovah's witness convert. She told us about her story a little bit and then she asked about the Book of Mormon. She accepted a copy to read, but it didn't really go anywhere outside of just giving her a copy. So that was really funny because like 30 minutes later, we were driving to go visit someone else, and I saw this young hispanic kid walking down the street in a black suit with a black button up shirt and a black vest. I jokingly said to Elder G, "it's another Jehovah's Witness!" and then we drove away and turned to go visit the person. We got out of the car and noticed a little stand with a box with a door on the top. It was a free library box. You can put a book in it and take one out. It's pretty cool. They have them all over Milwaukee. So we decided to put a couple copies of the Book of Mormon in it. We both wrote our testimonies in them and put them there. As we were standing there, the kid in the black suit was walking by! He walked straight past us and he was like 20 feet away when I yelled, "Hey! what are you dressed up for?!" He turned with a big smile and said, "I'm a Jehovah's Witness!" So I was right! His name was L and he's 18 years old. He was so cool! We talked to him for like 20 minutes just about proselyting and what the people are like that he talks to. He was way chill. We had a really good discussion. I always hate those situations because you don't want to come off as the prideful jerk who only cares about converting people. But we ended up transitioning into teaching the Restoration in a way that didn't sound cocky, prideful, or arrogant, so that was sweet! :p He was genuinely interested in what we teach, so he asked what our message was. It was a pretty cool experience I guess haha. He was seriously a way cool kid, so it was fun talking to him.
Saturday:
I was on exchanges with Elder S. He's LEGIT! Seriously one of the funniest kids I know! I love that kid! We visited a ton of people in this little town called ***, Wisconsin. We had some good experiences there. Probably the coolest thing that happened was a member referred us to her friend who has like 6 adopted children from Ethiopia, so I was able to go talk to her friend about her adopted children and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and she accepted one to read for herself! That was pretty much the highlight of the day.
Anyway, it's been a really good week. It was sweet getting to skype home for the last time! It feels weird that it was the last time! Ahhhhh!
Anyway I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Love you all!
Elder Josh Whicker
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| *Obligatory dorky 20-year-old boy scout photo ;) |
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