Pittsburgh Mission Memoirs

I was on exchange down in Wheeling, West Virginia, going around with Elder Coleman, and missionary who came out with me. We had several visits lined up, and most of them worked out, almost miraculously. One was pretty remarkable. It was a former investigator who didn't know that we were coming. We knocked on the door, and she was home and invited us in. We sat down, and started getting...

Monday evening, we went to go visit with Nancy. Nancy is a very outspoken, opinionated and quick-to-the-point kind of lady. She's a baptist by faith, and regularly attends her Sunday meetings, revivals all that jazz. Oh, and she's an avid coffee-aholic. Seriously, ever time we've been over there to visit her, she's had a pot brewing. (And it smells so good!) We finally got the...

What a weird week...On Monday, we went out to old man Zook's house. He's a great old guy who's been around for a really long time, and has seen the ward grow from a twig to where it is now. He's got a lot of random tricks up his sleeve too. While we were out there, he pulled out his...

We've had a couple of really great, cool experiences this week. Tuesday, we had an appointment with a less active brother, Jason. He's a hip, hair-stylin' Mormon who either joined the church later in life, or fell out of the church pretty hard. But don't let his appearance fool you - his tattoos and earrings only adorn the outside warmhearted family man. He's working on quitting...