"Hello sir, I'm Elder Rushton and we are miss....."
haha You must be kidding me, missionaries
"Well hey, I'm already saved so have a nice day"
"I'm baptist and I'm staying baptist"
Slam!!!!
Rejection once again
A
day and a life in the eyes of some one we knock into to.... Everyone we
knock into. The same old baptist, drunk, I've already been saved junk :)
But Some times we get blessed. Actually this week we got blessed.
We had one day that we picked up 3 new
investigators. It was sweet. I had 2 pretty fun moments this week. One
it was the end of the day, both of us were starving and walking to
McDonalds just trying to get some food in us. We were about a mile away,
and we were walking across a rail road track. I looked down the track
and saw 4 guys standing down there. Not thinking much, I kept walking
then, thinking I can't just leave them there, I told Elder Welch we were
walking down the track. He gave me a crazy look and told me it was one
of my "revelations" again, mocking me. As we got up to the guys one
latino was off talking on his phone and then there was 3 guys smoking
and I'm guessing homeless. Talking to them was going no where, they just
wanted to know when the world was ending. But I turned to the latino
and when he got off the phone picked up a conversation with him. By the
time I left I had taught him the first lesson and he was
way excited about it. He had Mormon friends down in Mexico. I don't know
if anything will come from it but It was a cool experience.
The next day was half mission P-day, we drove a
couple hours in the morning played football, kickball, and ran around.
All the missionaries learned that we weren't in shape. And by the time
we got home me and Elder Welch were tired... dead tired. We changed and
went to a members house for diner. As mine and Elder Welchs muscles
ached and killed we sat at dinner, hoping we wouldn't have to walk home.
But right before we left, and right as they offered us a ride. I had
the feeling we should walk home. So I said we were alright. We started
walking home and each person that rejected us as we walked Elder Welch
would turn and smile "sick revelation bro" haha laughing at me. Well at
the very end of my faith and being turned down by everybody, We entered
into our apartment parking lot. This black guy got out of his car,
looking completely uninterested and like he had seen us a million times.
Honestly not really wanting to talk to him, but wanting to be able to
say I tried when I asked God for help that night, and that I had done
what I could. I turned to him, striking up a conversation. We taught him
a couple things about the church, one being the word of wisdom. The
conversation just went that way and the spirit directed it. So we took
it that way. He loved it, asked us if we could talk again and
unfortunatly he got called in to work when we had our last appointment
with him but he seems like a miracle to me.
I love you all, I leave to TJ tomorrow in the morning, My bags are packed and I'm ready to go :)
I'm
done with this place, Leaving Michigan behind. Forever... Until me and
Sammy come back :) Right Sammy, You'll have to show me the good side of
this place.
Peace, Love, and I'll miss the people, can't say much for the place
Elder Rushton
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