Hello Everyone

This week was pretty slow noting really exciting has happened this week. we did have this funny experience on Saturday when we went to one of our investigators house he had a friend over that was signing papers for the place right next to our investigator and when the friend saw us he said “Go KU, Go Utah Utes!” that kind of took us by surprise and our investigator saw and said “you know them?” He said “like yeah I know the Mormons” and said some other crazy stuff like “I’m 59 and I’m married to a 32 year old, I must be doing something right” and then he went back to finish signing papers. The landlord asked “have you been drinking?” and he said “yeah I’ve had two or three beers, I’m a sinner, I know, no one is prefect” but I think he had a little more than two or three because he smelled like beer really bad. And while they were talking he just randomly turns around and throws up in his red hanky and says “I challenge the play it safe and the play is GOOD!” while he was doing some crazy gestures. We were just hoping that when the papers were signed he would leave and we could teach our investigator what we had planned but when he was finished our investigator said “so you’re leaving to go somewhere now?” His friend said “Nope I’m staying for bible study”. We were like ah crap in our heads but we got to talk to him a little bit. While our investigator finished doing something we learned that he met with missionaries in the past but moved here. And when our investigator got back we just read a chapter from the Book of Mormon and his friend was following along which surprised us and when we finished he loved what we read and when we set a return appointment his friend said I’ll be there too and looked really excited. We were really impressed just how calm he was when we were teaching so we are kind of excited to see when we come next time if he is sober how well the lesson will go.

Elder Birch