so this week i had a couple of events happen to me that were quite memorable and that i would like to relate to you. first off earlier this week we were trying to find a haitian guy by the name of grasias. we pulled up and i began to talk with this man outside his house who was apparently his stepdad. well one thing led to another and he told me to go away and never come back. i must say it was rather funny cause i told him i was a missionary and that i loved him and wanted to meet his family and if he needed anything to call us, at this point he proceeded to cuss us out and never to come back. i saw grasias at church that week and he said sry about his rather uptight stepfather. it was fun.
next on the list is that we had a lesson with this african family who mostly speaks french but we needed two translators to go from english to french to dan which is an african dialect. it was VERY interesting and a first. i got to speak some horrible french with them which probably didnt make any sense. but they loved that i tried.
the next experience was much more serious and kinda tramatic. we visited our friend who was turning his life around but we found out he had checked into rehab becuase of a relapse. we talked with his mom who is a faithful member and left to our next appointment. this sister though call us right as we left and asked us to turn around cause she thought her husband was having a stroke. well we turned right on around went in and sure enough her husband was on the floor and 911 was called all right before my eyes. im very surprised how calm we(the elders) all were regardless of what had happened. so we just visited this brother today and he is doing better. his poor wife has had a lot with this as well as her son going to rehab so keep this family in your prayers.
other than that life is just continuing as normal. we have 2 ish people starting to get ready for baptism but other than that its all normal.
the first of these two is Elizabeth who i might have mentioned last week but ill explain again how she is looking for a church that is family oriented. she told us last week that the BOM was true but the only problem is her bipolar husband that doesnt seem very friendly to the concept of us. we need to meet him to just say hi but i think he will be a great obstacle for elizabeth to overcome.
the next is keagan who is 19 years old, married, and is temporaraly living with some members here after driving here with his wife from arizona with no plans. they just kinda showed up one day and mariahs (keagans wife) mother called the bishop here looking for a place for them to live. so all this has come to pass and we are trying to help them understand the temple and to baptize keagan so they can go and get sealed as a family.
so yeah thats pretty much it for this week and thanks again to everyone and ill be praying for all of yall.
-elder johnson
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