There hasn't been anything really going on this past week. Honestly it's just been missionary work. I went to a chiropractor early today (for free since I'm a missionary), I don't know what I was expecting (something like making all of my spine and neck pop and hurt) but it wasn't really anything like that and he just pushed his fingers into my back and then pumped the spot for a bit.
June 4th
Well it turns out that my neighbors (in the member's house we live in) is Janet Roach's sister. So that's pretty cool
The work has been struggling, it hasn't been easy and right when I got here people started dropping us (like one person who was ondate). Because of that we have been tracting a lot and also trying new lists of people to find more investigators. So far we haven't found that much success and it's been hard to find people.
A funny thing that happened was that there was exchanges (I left my area and another missionary came with Elder Williams) and during that they ran into some Mexicans and they invited us over for a barbeque the next day. When I get there we go to this barbeque and there are a bunch of Mexicans (and every neighbor) and they were having beer, and everyone was surprised to see "mormons" there and we ended up talking to most of them about the church.
The weather has been good. Not too hot, it's been really windy (but that's the Tri-cities for you) and the past few days it's been scattered cloud cover. Besides that it's been mostly normal days.
That's about it!
May 28th
My birthday (May 25th) was a typical day honestly. We went and tried to do missionary work by going through a list of part-member families, with no such luck, and then it ended up with just tracking, where we met a member, who hadn't gone to church since he separated with his wife, we had dinner and after that had a lesson with another member who is struggling believing everything (he has problems separating doctrine and culture) and that was the day (with my companion telling everyone it was my birthday today, one of the reasons I wanted to hide it from everyone, which didn't work). I had a birthday party/dinner on Saturday and right before the party I got nailed in the eye with a Nerf bullet and then at the dinner I both on accident and on purpose overstuffed myself and couldn't do anything for the rest of the evening.
May 21st
Oh, my first experiences talking to people was 1) we said hellp to a guy and he said "I'll stab you" while just walking forward and 2) a guy rides up on a bike with random tubberware taped to his bike and talks about the "tech aliens" and the "autos" about how it's a conspiracy and how the "creator" is fighting off the tech aliens so they don't use their autos to take over the world. People seem a lot more crazy here, but I'm also out on the streets more here than anywhere else so, who knows.
There's nothing else to say really
May 14thU
Most of the tracking on doors goes like this:
"Hi my name's Elder Mullen, we're missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"
"I'm not interested."
"Is there any service or anything we can do to help you out?'
"No thanks. we're fine"
"Is there anyone you know that might be going through a hard time or could need a message about Jesus Christ?"
"No one that I know."
"Okay. Have a beautiful day"
