So this week it got up to a nice and balmy 71 degrees outside. Not gonna lie, it felt like I was gonna die. Definitely not
looking forward to summer.
This week I also got like my two favorite
foods mashed together - home made burgers and Korean barbecue. It was so good.
It was like is this a hamburger that’s made of Korean barbecue, or Korean
barbecue that’s made into a hamburger? Of course, my companion and the two
sisters, all not being from Irvine, had no idea what Korean barbecue was but
they now know what they are missing.
And this week for the "How stupid can
Elder Kupferer get?" category, apparently you need a fishing license to go
fishing up here. Who knew? Not us. Good thing the member we were with knows the
game warden.......
Now for an awesome story. My first day
tracting (knocking doors, sharing messages about Jesus Christ) here in this
area many months ago didn't yield many results. There were a few people that
said we could come back by, but not many. One of whom we shall call Jerry (not
actually his name). So Jerry was like yeah come back any time! So we did, but
for one reason or another we didn't get in to talk with him for over a month.
But anyways we get in and get to talking. He had just moved back to Chelan, but
said he had been meeting with the missionaries for several years, and they had
helped him in the hospital (he had lung problems), and things of that nature.
We were thoroughly confused because he sounded like he was a member but nobody
in the ward knew him nor his wife so we were talking with him a few days later,
come to find out his wife was a member since she was 8 (but hasn't been to
church since around then) and Jerry wasn't a member. So we start planning to
teach him because he said he was really interested in coming back to church,
but then he moves. Not far, only up to Pateros (a town 20 miles up the highway)
but other missionaries work in that town so we weren't going to be able to
teach him, which I was kind of disappointed about because I really wanted to
work with him and what not. But such is life so we handed him off and helped
him move and what not. But then this past week I was on exchanges (when I
switch areas for a day) in Pateros, and actually had the opportunity to teach
him the 1st lesson we normally teach (the missionaries hadn't been able to have
a full lesson yet) and was able to invite him to baptism, to which he said yes!
He said it was about time. He knew this is what he needs to do and said he knew
this was right. His biggest worry? How long he would be under the water,
because he has bad lungs. It was an awesome experience to be able to find and
teach him. With any luck, I'll still be here in May when his baptismal date
rolls around.
And now for the quote of the week. This one
comes from a sign I saw inside a little front porch on a house. Unfortunately
they didn't answer so I couldn't complement them but having put my mom through
6 years of it I figured she (and moms everywhere) would appreciate this:
"Raising teenagers is like nailing Jello
to a tree"
Hope everyone has an awesome week!
Con cariño,
Elder Kupferer
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