9.26.2016

Drugs, dogs, and Darth Vader

This week was another good one, full of interesting lessons. Here are

just a few of the good ones:

We were teaching some people on their front porch and it was crazy all

around. Kids running around, tons of people talking, and lots of

smoking going on. Welcome to Pennsylvania! But the best part was that

one of the men was smoking a thin cigar and as we were walking away

Sister Terry asked me if he was smoking weed. All I could do was laugh

because I thought the same thing with another person until I saw the

cigar box in their shirt pocket.

We also went to contact a less active, but new tenants moved in

recently. Thankfully they welcomed us in and we were able to teach the

Restoration! I'm not too sure how interested they are, but the best

part was she had a keychain that said "Nugs not drug" with chicken

nugget pictures on it. I thought it was super fitting for the day,

because we ended it by meeting a different less active who spent a

good thirty minutes talking about drugs, and how heroine is becoming a

big problem in Punxsy.

Wednesday was a bit of a brutal day, constituting of a lot of

unsuccessful finding. At one point we were came up to an intersection

in a neighborhood and Sister Terry turned the corner. Next thing I

know she turns around with a super frightened look on her face and

says "Sister Morrison, there is a wild dog!" We both are freaked out

by dogs, so we turn around, and start booking up is hill we just

walked down. About five seconds later I turn around, and there it was,

a huge dog chasing after us. I was in such a panic as it was catching

up to me, my only thought was to try and juke it out by getting on the

other side of parked cars, and then run up some steps to get to the

sidewalk. Once we got to the top of the stairs the dog thankfully

stayed at the bottom, and we didn't get eaten alive. It slowly

wandered away from us, and now we live to tell the tale!

D has been coming to church for about two months now. She is

dating a member of our ward, and has kinda been off limits for us to

teach because of the awkward situation that it might put Brother B

in. But, we finally got the ok to teach her, and our lesson went so

well! The members we had with us were solid, and D really has a

genuine interest to know if it is true. She asked us what our favorite

chapters from the Book of Mormon were so she could read them, and even

asked for a DVD of the Restoration. She loves the church so far, but

is just waiting to see if it is true. Talk about a miracle!

I was finally able to accomplish one of my new year goals this past

week! My goal was to pass out 150 copies of the Book of Mormon, and

with the time we spent finding this past week I was able to do it!

Obviously the year isn't over and I still have three months, so my new

goal is to pass out fifty more, making it a total of 200 during 2016!

Saturday was Sister Terry's one month mark, and I am all for

celebrating whenever you have a reason to, so I thought I'd give her a

little treat. L, one of our less actives, loves to put on a Darth

Vader costume, stand on the street corner, and wave to cars as they

drive by. I was able to arrange for Laura to be at the corner when we

pulled up to go visit them, and act like a stranger. Sister Terry

thought it was the weirdest thing ever, and wanted to go take a

picture with this random stranger, and I told her ok on one condition:

she gave it a Book of Mormon. So there's Sister Terry, testifying of

the Book of Mormon to Darth Vader. She did a good job, and got a laugh

out of the whole thing once Darth came walking in the house after us!

Sister Morrison

Shout out to Sister Terry for the cute clothes.

Selfie from Zone Conference