In Front of Me

It’s going down! lol... I mean, it went down! WOOT

Congrats to Keaun, he was baptized yesterday, by elder Lim!!! Ha-ha. I gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and Elder Larson on baptism. Brother Meldrom welcomed him to the branch, and we sang a bunch of hymns. Luckily the water heater has been fixed so the font was warm! When we were filling it there was actually steam on the glass and the big mirror! Ha-ha. The spirit it was very nice, and to top everything off Keaun’s whole family was there! And since they do the confirmations here in sacrament the next week that means his family will be here two weeks in a row! They will see the priesthood in action, and it will be hard not to get a testimony of it! :)

So, Narilee and Robbie our family that was going to be baptized on the 28th fell off the face of the earth! :( :S we cant get a hold of them, they wont answer there door and they have not come to church! :( So we really don't know what the deal is... because, they were great! I don't know what we did wrong.

So, Thursday night we had a list of new medias to go and visit. As Elder Lim read off the list of medias I felt prompted to go to "Wilma Quita", so we did. When we got the house we knocked the door and asked for Wilma, the man looked very confused and then told us to go around to the side door. So we went through the ally to the side door and knocked it. Suddenly from the back came a big guy with a huge beanie yelling at us! We told him we were missionaries looking for Wilma Quita to give her the book that she ordered and he got really frustrated and pulled out his wallet and showed us his last name on his drivers license. "Oolda, see Oolda!" after a while of that I think Lim understood and said "They must have spelled it wrong" as he pulled out our cell phone and looked at the referral. The man looked down at the cell phone and his angry face switched to a happy face and he said in a much higher calmer voice then before "OH! You preach the word of God?! Come on, come on" as he started walking back toward the back and waving us to follow, "come back with me". We followed but I was a little concerned. He got to the back door and opened it up and started to go in and then he told us "I'm Steve" and that he has been trying to find peace. We told him we could help.

He finally told us that Wilma was his wife. then a lady started yelling at Steve from inside he kinda just yelled a few things back to tell the lady he didn't care what she was saying. Then Steve invited us in. we went into his basement and started to teach him, he would interrupt and get off track a lot, but we were happy to answer his questions. Then his wife came down and their daughter, right when we began talking about Joseph Smith. We had to back track so they could understand us. Wilma told us what Steve had told us minutes before, that he was an alcoholic. Steve and she just wanted an answer on how he could get over his addiction, so we told him. The wife Wilma said something about "the other missionaries" and started talking about the word of wisdom! LOL She started listing things "no, coffee, tea, drugs..." and her husband cut her off and said "SEX." we all looked at him and after a second of awkward silence, I explained how sex is a beautiful thing as long as it is in the bounds of marriage, then he interrupted me "wait! So you have never had sex!?!?" we told him no. then he asked us how old we were. We told him and then he re-asked "so you have never had sex and your 19 and 21!?" "Yeah....", then he responded "so you are virgins!?", "um.... yeah". Then he laughed and stood up and looked sad and touched his chest and said "so you have never been touched?..." Lim and I looked at each other and I looked at the guy and said "what do you mean!? Cause I've held hands and hugged and kissed...", Steve interjected "so, you have never held hands or kissed?". I laughed and said "of course we have! We have held hands and kissed a lot! We just haven't had sexual relationships!" He looked blown away and fell to his feet.

Then somehow he started talking about Jah Man, and how he was part Apache! He talked about how there are really only 9 commandments because the number 0 means nothing so that must mean 10 means 1, which means there are only 9 numbers in existence. I told him that was crazy talk. I told him, we could get off on a tangent and talk about base 10 number systems and how 0 is simply a place holder, "but that’s completely off topic", Lim brought things back around as he started talking about Christ. That’s when Steve talked about Rastafarian stuff and haile selassie. I had no Idea what he was talking about but luckily Lim did because he spent 6 months in Bermuda with a bunch of Rastafarians! :D

So we ended on a good not and then he had us listen to a couple reggae songs before we left. He told us he would burn us copies. Then he showed a reggae remake of I Believe in Miracles.... you know the one that says "Touch me!" and "you sexy thing you" and he tried to tell us it was a spiritual song because the guy was saying that he believed in miracles! LOL It was great. We are going back over this week I think, so that will be fun. :) Before I left he pulled off his beanie and exposed his dreads! LOL I told him how when I was little I loved dreads and wanted some, he told me to touch them. I did. It was awesome! Then he told me if I came back next time with dreads he would say "Now here is a prophet". Then he showed us his Bob Marley poster. Then we went home and used hand sanitizer on the way. :)

I love you all! The church is true, it really is. It’s so simple and beautiful and living by its standards will bless your life and make life so much better! So much easier! If you don't believe me, put the standards to the test and then tell me what you think. :)

I love you family and friends!! Have a wonderful week! Happy B-day Kitty! :) Happy b-day Todd! and Happy late b-day Josh! I hope I’m not missing any one.

Love Elder Sam