Week 9

I have made it! 6 weeks down! a lot more to go! love it!

DAY ONE! Pday?

We started our first ever exchange! I stayed in Phili and got stuck with a feller by the name of Elder Jackson, Who, is going home tomorrow.. so he was super trunky! so that was a thing, also, he is just in general kinda lazy, so it seemed like we were going to have a FUN day!

DAY 2! Eday!

With Elder Jackson all day, he didn't get up till like 830! so we started off STRONG! thank goodness I had set up an appointment with someone at 10, so he HAD to get up so we could go to that... and it fell through.. darn! I spent a lot of time studying! had to. we did go out though, but only for one reason. You see, Phili.. was Elder Jacksons last area, so HE had all KINDS of friends we had to see, and that's what we did! it was.. fun!   One of his best friends was mister Diego! so we had Dinner with him, spent some time there, at one point they went out to put away some of Diego's MANY cars, (he has this big ol' 8 car port thing in the back of his house) as they were out there, I was inside for just a bit finishing some dishes, when I went out there, I found Elder Jackson in panic mode! (Oh no! is all that went through my mind) well, turns out that Elder Jackson is DEATHly afraid of all things spider! he saw me come out and he's like "ELDER MARTIN! WE NEED YOU!" He couldn't kill it cause he is a wimp, and Diego couldn't cause he is blind as a bat and couldn't see it to save his life! SO! I went to check it out.. BIGGEST! SPIDER! EVER! in history! I had to let out a gasp! it was no wonder Elder Jackson was ready to pass out!  So this thing is just chilling up in its web, (which, was also huge! and AWESOME!) all being big and scary, so I had Diego get some bug killer spray stuff, and he just so happened to have the most lethal of all sprays! Well as I was about to KILL it, Diego asked for a picture of it, so I took his phone got all close like and took some pics, but they were not good enough so Diego  wanted a closer look so he could see just how big it was, so I was giving him so light, as he is failing to see this spider that was right in front of him! when I randomly turn and BOOM! HUGE SPIDER NUMBER TWO! I gasped! and Elder Jackson had a mini heart attack and ran inside! Most, fun, I have ever had! so I sprayed them real good, they put up a nasty fight, but in the end they both fell to the ground, dead, this was not good enough for Elder Jackson, and he wanted them squished! I got a little 2 by 4 (cause I was not about to step on it with my NICE SHOES!) and it was like braking a shell or something! CRAZY! those guys were BEASTS! it was the best!...

and then.. IT happened.. Diego took us home, BLIND AND ALL! in the DARK! and when we got to the pad, I realized something was missing from my pocket.. YEP! the KEYS! good ol' Cameron STRIKES AGAIN! but it does not end there, the PHONE! was also in the pad! that one is Elder Jackson's fault! AHH! this was all very bad, SO after spending the next hour and a half trying to break in! (I may not be as good at getting in to houses as I am with cars) we called the Mish Pres and ended up staying and Diego's house.. I hated every minute of it!

day 3..

So we DID get in, got that all taken care of, and then went and got our Elders back.. and we MAY or may not have played some pokemon cards.. its a missionary thing, one that you will NEVER catch me spending money on.

Saw all kinds of People, like this guy that needs to go to Prison.. yeah. Saw the Agustos again! love that family he gave us some AWESOME riddles, this was one of them, a math thing,

You want to buy a 97 dollar shirt (no idea who would do that) but you have no money, SO you barrow 50 dollars from your dad, and 50 from your mom.  You buy the shirt, and get 3 dollars back. You give one to your mom, one to your dad, and pocket one.

Now you owe your dad 49 dollars, and you owe your mom 49 dollars. ok, 49 + 49 is  98, you have one, that makes 99. where is the other dollar?

we thought long and hard, couldn't figure it out there, but after we went to another less active home, the Stokes, I may have talked about them before, they go to some other church now.. its strange, anyhow, they LOVE us, and we will keep seeing them, but it will be awhile till we get them back to church, BUT with them we DID figure out that riddle thingy, so yeah, I know it now!

DAY 4.

the weirdest day of my mission.. we started the day off by going to this dudes house for lunch, he calls him self little Joe, and his house it an RV, ok, no prob, but I could not HELP but wonder if the drinks he gave us was just flat out knock us out! like REALLY! I was SO scared! I didn't want to drink, or eat anything he gave us! all I was thinking was, "which food item did he stuff the roofies in?" I did partake though, and it was all very good, up until he started rambling on about how.. he.. is GAY!  and that that started cause as a child.. he was molested.. um, the fear came back REAL quick! we couldn't get out of there soon enough! and right before we did.. he sang to us! AH! my only solice is that he is moving, and we can give him to the other Elders,

other stuff went down but I'm about to be kicked off, so I'll end,

We went to tucker, it was great, talked to a bunch of drunks

The Davis family FINALLY came to church!

and that's really the rest of the week!

LOVE

ALWAYS LOVE!