Pittsburgh Mission Memoirs

We were having a bit of fun when we were writing to Slim this week. We rewrote the lyrics to "When you're a Professional Pirate" from Muppet Treasure Island for him. Hope you enjoy it. If you haven't seen the movie, it is worth it. It is one of our family favorites. He liked it and wanted to have it posted here to preserve it for posterity. Have a great week, Missionary Slim's dad (Singing:...

This week was pretty lame. We had a lot of appointments drop. We walked from one end of Pittsburgh to the other, trying to teach our investigators. Alas - few were up for it. Regardless, there were still a lot of cool things that happened. I suppose you could say my life is never dull. One...

The streets of Gotham, Pennsylvania darkened as storm clouds blew over. The wind fiercely blew; a fine mist swept in the air. And then, it began.*begin playing Batman soundtrack*Elder Anderson and Elder Walker stood, awestruck as torrential rain began to fall in sheets. Their place of shelter didn't last long; the windswept rain was quickly soaking their bodies. *music crescendos*"We...

So many cool things are happening, but I can only write about a few of them. This post will probably be like last weeks - a few random, isolated occurrences. We were walking back to our apartment after having an excellent dinner with our Ward Mission Leader (who, by the way, is awesome. Just saying) As we were walking, I noticed a car go by. The driver kept swinging his head...

I'll start this post off with a couple of random occurrences. "Hey, you wanna joint?"*Oh great.* I thought. These kids we were walking towards thought that it would be funny to let the missionaries get high. Ha. Nice try."No, no." said Elder Lucio, the elder that was with me for our exchange for the day. We kept walking. They laughed."Why not?" they called after us. I turned around,...

The people out here are awesome. I'm just going to say it flat out - they are amazing. They're as crazy as always, but nearly everyone wants to listen to our message. We run into people on the street all the time who come up to us and say "Hey, aren't you the Mormons? I want to talk...