Week 16

Hey so kind of a normal week this week. Daisy is getting baptized next Saturday so that's awesome. We also found a few new promising investigators from referrals so we should be picking up the pace overall which is exciting.

Monday was you classic p-day. We went to costco again with the ZL's and we saw a ton of members again. One of them offered to buy our stuff but we kindly said no because we aren't really supposed to let them, but then when we were in line she walked in front of us and told the cashier that she was paying for us which is awesome. I love to see the kindness and charity of our members. It really is true how people can tell us apart by the way we act. She then offered to buy us lunch at costco but then there was a different member that told her that she got us covered for lunch so score x2! it was awesome. Also in the parking lot we saw a car with a license plate that said 'LDS Jedi Knight'"so we took a picture with it haha.

Tuesday was zone meeting which is a little longer than dmeet, E. Jennings and I had a training on ward councils and how we can try our hardest to make them effective but its up to the council members as to whether or not they are (because a lot of the time they get off topic). This particular zone meeting lasted 5 hours because a bunch of Tongan members showed up with a huge feast for us. It was awesome but then we had to practice singing. All the missionaries in the zone (stake) are singing at this big christmas event called "Christmas on Euclid" next saturday. Man next week is gonna be busy.

Wednesday was kind of crazy, we had no set lessons until later at night so we just tried by a bunch of less actives and such, we ended up at this house with an old Mexican grandma who could barely speak english. She gave us this awesome corn-hotchoclate-drink called pinole because she thought we were cold (it was 25 degrees) but she shared her conversion story and told us that we needed to help out her grandson because he is a less active YSA, so hopefully we can go back. As we were driving round we witnessed this crazy police takedown which was cool because it was totally out of the shows were they are all standing behind their car doors with their guns out and then they sent their dog in to take the guy down. Pretty sweet.

Thursday was pretty basic, the most noteworth thin is a member took us to a nice steakhouse which is the sort of situation where its like "Oh you dont have to.." but we really wanted to go because its good food. Anyway it was really good and we got to talk to her friend about missionary work and temples.

Friday was super basic, teaching people and spreading the good word. thats about it.

Saturday some Jehovahs witnesses knocked on our door during studies. I answered the door without my name-tag on (whoops) and they started to talk with me about the Jesus picture in out window and trying to teach me about all sorts of weird JW stuff, then E. Jennings walks up to the door with his name-tag on and they were like, 'Oh! your Mormons!'and they just put their pamphlets away haha. We actually ended up trading one of our Christmas pass-along cards for one of their magazines. There is some super wierd stuff in their haha.

We actually had another run in with police when we were contacting a referral they knocked on their door and questioned the guy's son. Super awesome because they obviously had some contact with missionaries because they called us 'Elders' and said they trusted us and such it was cool. As we were leaving one of them said, 

"You could go anywhere in the world, Germany, Italy, France.... and you came to Montclair."

"You poor souls" 

probably one of the funniest encounters I have had so far on my mission. 

Sunday was super basic as well.

Overall a fun week with a few boring days but, oh well.

Hope you guys have a great week!

Elder Ockey

People in the picture from top to bottom:

E. Wiginton

E. Ockey

E. Robbins