Hi all,
This week again went by super quick! So on Tuesday
(I think) we went to go see brother Monty in the veterans hospital! He has some
breathing issues but he was able to make it out of the hospital after surgery
and before Easter! So that was a cool experience.
On Wednesday we had a district lunch. And we were supposed to go to a place in Syracuse called Dinosaur BBQ which is supposed to be super popular but it had a huge wait, so we decided to go to chipotle instead. And we decided to walk....it was about 3 or 4 miles away. So we wandered around downtown Syracuse for about an hour till we finally found it! (which was longer than our wait at dino bbq) but then we didn't have a lot of time so we got our food and dashed back to the cars! But I didn't mind walking around Syracuse because there are a lot of sweet buildings and cool sites.
While Elder Ricks and I were out tracting (knocking
doors) and trying to follow up on contacts in this one area a mini van stopped
to talk to us. It was two Jehovah Witnesses. They gave us a brochure to invite
us to their Friday service and we gave them our easter video pass along card, and
then we talked to them awhile..well they talked to us. They kinda would never
let us talk and then everything we said they would try to bash or contradict.
It was quite interesting. But fun nonetheless. And actually of all things it
was a testimony builder because every time I testified of a doctrine I felt the
spirit and everything they said I was like well actually our church has an
answer for that!
So General Conference was this weekend!! General
Conference is practically the super bowl for missionaries. We brought some
snacks and everything. Saturday morningwe watched conference at the church and
then we watched the Sat afternoon session at the Finch family's house. We also
watched Priesthood session at the church too.
Easter! So Sunday morning we were invited by Pastor
Yost to attend a service at his Luthern Church in Clay. We went and it was very
interesting. It was good to see the differences and see their views on Easter.
Then afterwards they had a brunch in their gathering center thingy (like a
cultural hall but way smaller). We then headed to the Barth's house to have
another brunch! Very full already and it wasn't even 12 o'clock. Then we
watched conference at the church with some less actives. Then we went to go see
a less active family who was actually just finishing up dinner and invited us
to eat....so we ate a little since we knew we had a dinner appointment. We
watched the afternoon session at the Finche's again (we love them) and then we
went to the Blanch's family for dinner! So all in all we had 4 HEAVY meals
yesterday. We pretty much went into food comas. Also a bunch of people gave us
candy and an anoymous family gave all the missionaries easter baskets. And of
course I got a package from my family so I am going on a week fast from food.
haha. But overall the week was so great! I hope you are all doing well!
Elder Waters
kwaters@myldsmail.net
