Fwd: Group Email #5

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From: Joseph Gibb <joseph.gibb@myldsmail.net>
Date: November 20, 2017 at 9:54:19 AM MST
To: Marie Gibb <mdgibb@gmail.com>
Subject: Group Email #5

Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife. It's the Mormons.

A sloooooooooowwww week this week. Mostly service and stopping by people who don't want to talk with us.

The pastor from aforementioned emails will be meeting with us in approximately two hours and that will... Happen. I don't know how well. But he was happy to meet.

On Tuesday, Elder Vin Zant and I attempted to make a two layer cake for our investigator (it was her birthday and her family doesn't really visit). This was my "brilliant" idea. Neither of us have ever made a two layer cake and we were running out of time as we baked the second layer of the cake. (We only had one 8" round pan but we wanted to have two layers so we decided to just cook two cakes, one after the other.) The second cake got out of the oven about 5 minutes before we had to leave so it had about 2 minutes to cool and then we put frosting on it. It... Didn't go well. The cake ended up being mostly held together with frosting and good intentions and that wasn't even enough. We'd both be Chopped.

This Friday we had some great experiences tracting. Nobody wanted to talk to us but we got a couple good stories. One lady prayed with us on her front porch and praised God and Jesus and we told her how awesome it was that she had faith in these things and she was really excited to talk with us about the miracles in her life. However, when she finished the stories and then the prayer we asked, "Would there be a time that we could talk with you more about Jesus Christ?" She looked at us. She said, "I'd really rather not." Strange for someone who just prayed on their front porch with two people she had never met. Whatever.

Oh, also, the first guy who we knocked on his door answered and told us that Jehovah's Witnesses had come by about 5 times before and there is a no soliciting sign in front of their neighborhood and what we're doing is illegal. After informing him that we were not Jehovah's Witnesses he said, "Don't care. Next time one of you knocks on my door I will be pointing a gun at you. I have a right to defend my property from solicitors. What you're doing, is illegal."

I asked Elder Vin Zant if we could go back there the next day.

He said no.

Hope you all have a pretty okay week. Eat lots. Have a good Thanksgiving.

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-Elder Joe Gibb