Our Zone P-day was pretty awesome. Duncan Zone's pretty cool, I guess.... ;) It's too bad how far apart all the missionaries are from each other, though. Tuesday was pretty fun too. We had to drive down to Ardmore (moderately-sized city close to the Texas border) to get our car checked out since they're the closest city with a Toyata dealership. While that was getting taken care of we got to have lunch with the Ardmore missionaries, which was a lot of fun!
Right now Elder Kahawaii and I are still trying to get in contact with our investigators. The Sledds, the deaf family that we are currently teaching, had a friend pass away, so they haven't been available. Hopefully that makes them more accepting of the Plan of Salvation! We haven't seen them in a couple weeks now, so hopefully that changes this next week.
We've kept trying Rustina when she's not working to see how she's been doing on quitting smoking, but she's never there. I finally got to meet Sara, our most seasoned investigator. Man she is SO COOL! She's currently separated from her husband, but soon to get a divorce. Sara's boyfriend and her are kinda sorta still together. I thought they were never ever ever ever getting back together, like ever... but I guess they're still living together. She's also trying to stop smoking, and she really does want to be a member of the church! Seriously, more people smoke in Sulphur than in Purcell... ha.
We did have an interesting miracle happen to us on Wednesday. We went to go try yet another one of our investigators named James. He's an older guy with bright aqua colored eyes! I know that's kind of weird coming from another guy, but that's probably his most striking feature! His eyes kinda remind me of a fruit gusher.... Yeah I don't know where I'm going with that, but anyway, he was busy mowing lawns, so he wasn't interested in a message. Luckily one of his neighbors named Fred came over and started talking to us. We started talking to Fred for a while until another neighbor named Lisa came over. Lisa is a middle-aged woman that's a less-active Baptist and immediately fell in love with us. She's kind of interesting. She's really friendly, bold, down-to-earth, chillax, and kinda hippyish. She could be a hippy if she wanted to. Anyway, she invited us and her neighbors to take a tour of her newly remodeled house (which looks a lot nicer on the inside than on the outside). She even wanted to show us her bedroom, but Elder Kahawaii and I politely declined! By the end of the day she talked to us for a good two hours and wanted us to come back! We weren't quite sure if she was drunk or if she was just super chill. She's a single lady, yet she keeps her house really clean and even has a kid living at home.
So the next day we brought some members out with us to meet her, but when we knocked on the door her kid told us she was with James at the Artesian! The Artesian is this gigantic casino that just got built right before I showed up, and it's Sulphur's version of the great and spacious building. We called her a couple times but she didn't answer! We thought she was getting drunk and neglecting her child! Hahaha but later on she called us and told us she really did want to see us and that she was just at a meeting with James. She told us not to call Social Services on her. Elder Kahawaii laughed his head off over that. We saw her for a little bit on Friday with Elder and Sister Fairbourn. Turns out she's not really drunk, she's just really chill and... single and ready to mingle.... She offered us coffee and tea and wanted to hug us, but we told her we couldn't! She was depressed after that... haha. We're hoping to teach a lesson with her once she can pay attention to us, but we did leave her with a Restoration DVD to watch! We're definitely looking forward to seeing her this week!
She even calls us King Kamehameha and James Garner....
With 100% sobriety,
Elder Garner
PS—Here's a picture of our zone (1), the Spencer family (2), and the Gowens family (3)! I LOVE YOU!!! :)
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