Hi

This weeks happenings:

Well, turns out Jerusalem man didn't show for our lesson and when we called to find out why he said that he wasn't interested in meeting unless it was one on one because he doesn't like too many opinions being thrown around. Well, that isn't the way it works for missionaries- no meeting with creepy guys one on one- We told him we could arrange for him to meet with someone from the ward but he declined and said he might be interested at another time when we could meet one on one. Needless to say that is not really going to happen. Then later in the week, we went to check on a potential investigator who lives with his girlfriends mom while looking for his own place. Well, he wasn't home we found out quickly, but his girlfriends mom was. She answered the door in her underwear and it was quite traumatic!!! We asked if we could talk to her for a few minutes because she'd been asking the church to send some ladies over instead of Elders because there were things she just couldn't talk to the Elders about. She is basically like a TV preacher who yells praises to the Lord randomly every so often just to make sure you're not falling asleep. She kept telling us we were angels sent to her which could be true but she was pretty off the wall. She told us that our names meant things and that we shouldn't ever change our names because that would be detrimental to our salvation. She told us all about her crazy life and thoughts about Bible passages. My favorite part however, was when she stood up and sang us an entire song in an opera voice- actions included!!!!. It was such a great mission experience. I wish you could have been there just to see how nuts it was. However, it was fairly entertaining and gave us a good laugh. We told her that we couldn't come back because she isn't in our family ward area and she was pretty bummed because there was so much more she wanted to get our opinions about. So we thought we'd avoided her for the most part after being very nice about it. So we come around the corner at church the next day and guess who we see. We ducked into a classroom as quickly as we could because we heard her calling our names to find us. It was a hoot. Normally, I don't hide from potential investigators but she scares us a little and we weren't sure what would happen. So we escape and apparently she left but at the end of church the Bishop tells us that she left a present for us in his office. We went to check it out and she had bought us a karaoke machine!!! It is super hardcore too. Why a karaoke machine? ??? We have no idea. It was an expensive one too. I couldn't stop laughing about it. She must have recognized that we'd be good karaoeke folk! She also included a folder of poems and a note to us telling us more about our names and I can't forget the article about her family from the National Enquirer!!! So now we have a karaoke machine that we can't use until after our missions- we'll probably donate it to the ward. It was so funny and random. I'm sure there will be more to add to that story soon! It's pretty random but so fun. I love all of the great people I am meeting. Sister London

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Me and Dominique Rublecava (member) feeding each other ice cream yummy. Her dad is the ward mission leader and so we hang out a lot