July 8, 2013

Missionary Slim and the Chocolate Factory or Elder Ramos and the chocolate bar (Week 74 in Pennsylvania, Week 3 in West York, PA)

We had a bit of excitement this week. We were out on foot, looking for the home of a less-active member who the Bishop wanted us to go and visit. We went back and forth, trying to find it, but the house numbers seemed to jump right when we came to where the house we were looking for would be. After knocking a few doors, we found that the house was actually behind all the other ones. You had to walk through an alley and there they were. We knocked on a house that we thought was the one when a guy yelled to us "Yo!" He was standing on his balcony waving down at us. We went over to him. "I need some Word." That was good enough for me. We went up to his house and sat down.

His name is George. He's a big guy, pretty burly, and had stitches on a cut right above his eyebrow. He brought us in, sat us down, and told us "Look, I've been in York for about two weeks. Two days ago, we got robbed." Some guys broke into their house, stole the jewelry, electronics, and keys to the car. They were without hope for a little bit. So, we cheered him up. We gave some scriptures, some comfort, etc. Just as we started explaining the Book of Mormon, his wife came out.

"Ooh!" she said, "I've always wanted to read it." Then she told us her background. "I'm into hermeneutics and exegesis, oh, and apologetics too!" Yeah. Good thing I've looked up those words before (Thank you, Elder Christofferson, for using them in one of your talks!) To put it simply, she's REALLY into reading old scriptural documents. We were thrilled to give her a copy.

That was pretty fantastic.

Just a few hours later, though, disaster struck.

A member gave us candy bars for dessert after dinner one time. Well, we really weren't in the mood to eat them right then, so we just brought them out to the car and left them there... for several hot days. On this particular day, Elder Ramos got a little hungry. That candy bar was waiting for him (calling his name, I'm sure). He pulled it out, grabbed the end, and the rest is history.



Poor guy.

I'll close with a scripture which has had an impact on me this past week, being the Independence day of my country and all.

Ether 2:12 - "Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written. "

Love,
Elder Alex Anderson, AKA Missionary Slim

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