¿Qué pasa, calabaza?
I've had three people tell be I sound like Jesse Eisenberg this week - my companion and two other missionaries. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. He is in Rio and the Social Network. I guess he is pretty cool.
We were tracting on Tuesday and I have a pretty good story from it. So, we rock up to this door. Normal day, normal door, We knock on the door and almost immediately an old guy answers it - probably only a one to two second pause after the knock. He asks us what we want and we say to teach him about Jesus Christ. He goes, "Oh, sorry. I'm deaf." Then, I yell really loud, "Can we help you out at all today?" He didn't hear me, so we left and wished him a good day. About half-way up to the next house, I realize that he had answered the door and asked us what we wanted. He was definitely NOT deaf!! Some people...
We saw Eva on Thursday. She is the lady that came to church out of nowhere last Sunday. We had a great lesson with her and she expressed the desire to be baptized. She really wants to be baptized with her husband, but isn't sure if he will do it. We told her to pray about it and see what God wants her to do. She is doing it this week and we will see her again probably on Friday. I am so excited to be teaching her! She reminds me a lot of Grandma Sandy - super fun and spunky and one of the nicest ladies I have ever met. She is getting baptized for sure. I don't know if it will be this transfer. Probably not, but I think it will be within the next few weeks.
On Saturday, we drove up to Perth with our ward mission leader to see stake conference. It was pretty cool... kinda. It was actually super hot, in comparison. It feels hotter because Albany is so freaking cold! Stake conference was good, but DANG... there were so many young women! Young women, YSA girls, and Sister missionaries swarming EVERYWHERE!! What da heck? It was hard to stay focused! Ha ha! I don't know if it is my missionary goggles or if I am really lucky but there are some beautiful Sisters here. #heaven
When we were in Perth, we went on splits with our Zone Leaders. We taught this little girl named Alyssabeth, who is autistic. She kept going off about how she had powers and could turn into a mermaid. Elder Day was getting a little frustrated because he wanted to teach, so I just took the bullet and talked to the little girl FOREVER about powers and stuff. I love little kids. They are so funny. Their imagination almost compares to mine... anyway. We also met an Italian guy who lost all faith in religion. He was in an Italian concentration camp in WWII. After that, the Catholic church stole all his money away. He was pretty bitter about it. It was really sad. I didn't even know how to help him, but I thought about Alma teaching the poor Zoramites in the Book of Mormon and I felt a little better. I have been thinking a lot about humility lately. The people there were compelled to be humbled it says, it says that being humble willingly is better but if necessary, we need to be compelled to be humble. I like to think that I am a humble person, but if I am not, then I pray that I will be compelled to be humble. I am so sick of pride, it is pretty much the only factor in us sinning. We always give in to pride when we sin. So, in the words of President Uchdorf... STOP IT! No more sinning for me or for yous.
Anyway... I love you all and I cant wait to split a pizza with you!
Elder Jamison
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