Week 10

This week includes but is not limited to. Prison. PAIN! vicious dogs! Shelly Idaho! and SO MUCH MORE!

lets start with P DAY!

After writing our letters home, we went to wal-mart. There, some nice young ladies whistled at us.. me. so that was interesting.  That night we went and saw Chris and Cody, (keep them in mind!) and on the way home, it we pouring! SO, MUCH, RAIN! riding in that was really something new! but I'm still alive, so its just a story!

The day AFTER PDAY!

So, LONG day, cool story though, a lady from the branch flagged us down and took us to lunch! that in it self is unheard of for Phili, mostly 'cause there is a total of like, 4 active members that live here. Best part was though that her son! who is "less active" not active at all, was with her, AND! we totally had been trying to see him with no success for WEEKS! so that turned out cool!   And then.. we did all kinds of tracting, which, as you may know, is by far! my LEAST favorite part of missionary work. Mostly 'cause its ineffective. Well, that day was no different. Actually, it was the worst ever! First of all, it was the most hostility we have ever witnessed! in fact, there is one street that I want to just X out for good! oh, and a dog tried to eat me.. I have the hole to prove it. luckily, the dogs owners son was out there.. luckily for the dog that is! and elder Ashby. I'm not sure how he would have handled me breaking a dog's neck.

Yeah, even that guy, whose dog had a piece of my pant lag, would take 5 minutes to talk to us, BLEH! not a fun day.

Wednesday,

DDM, that was really it.

PAIN DAY NUMBER ONE!

Another day full of tracting, and biking, to THAT point, my knees had never felt the kind of pain they did that night, it was pretty bad. There were TWO bright spots: One, I have been praying REAL hard to see how tracting is in any way good for anything! and we FINALLY met a guy who seemed cool, James Born, cool name! he will come up again. and the other bright spot, I once again suggested we go into a store, and by doing so, met a member! I love me! WELL! this guy was just passing through, he lives in another state, and he just randomly decided to stop at this place called dirt cheap! WEIRD! I got to talking to him, and found out that he has a sister that lives in Shelly Idaho! and her Stake President is TOTS President Browning! HOW COOL IS THAT! that is the thrid person I have met that has some kind of connection to Shelly Idaho, crazy!

PAIN DAY NUMBER 2!

Tucker, biked there, did our thing there, met with the Davis Family as always, they are doing great! at about 6, we had a choice to make, either bike home, so as to get out of tucker before it got dark, or bike to the Stokes, who only live, like, 3 miles from tucker, but like, 7, from our pad, and we could just have them take us home after meeting with them. but if they were NOT home, well, we would have a rough time ahead of us. Now, if I have not talked about the Stokes before, they are a less active family that we have been relentlessly led to! SO! We went to the stokes, and as we were coming up to their drive way, it (at that point, of ALL TIMES) dawned on Elder Ashby, that "they might be at the football game.." AHH! YEAH! IT'S THE SOUTH! they were.. so, we biked home, in the dark, up hill the whole way! 'Cause again! IT'S THE SOUTH! and I about died, far more pain then the day before.

The day was not yet over! at about 830, just as we were getting home, we got a text, from Cody, , (Remember, I said to keep him in mind) saying that something happened with him and Chris, (I won't get into it, cause, its odd...) and that he was now homeless. we asked him where he was, and never got a reply. the next morning we get a call from Chris! the first thing he says is "HE LIED TO YOU!" well, turns out Cody may have stolen phones and walets and MAY have put bleach in a drink for Chris to drink and is now in prison.. So yeah.. that happend. there are some othet things, that I dont know if I should tell the whole world, so y'all can decied if you want to put this all in the blog.. like, the whole story, not sure about it. oh and Chris is gay, so was Cody, so thats fun...

DAY OF LESS PAIN!

Saw the Born family again, and it went REALLY well, I cant wait to see them again, maybe tracting is not the worst thing you could ever do..

Talked to a J-dove! that was fun!! she knocked on our door! it was great! and random! cause we are NEVER home at that time of day! good stuff!

oh and there is a chance that we once again locked ourselfs out of the pad..

SUNDAY!

3 weeks after his baptisem, Richard Jones was confirmed! YAY! good stuff.

WELP! that was my week! loving life here in the dirty south!

ALWAYS REMEBER TO SMILE!

LOVE! 

Elder CamCam Martin!