Southern Lovin is a reference to me staying in Farsi South...., AGAIN ha this will be my 9th transfer here! And I'll be serving with one of my previous companions, Elder Dixon!
Started off with Tuesday night when we went to ESL. We pulled up a bit early and idk why but our church parking lot is notorious for loitering, not by kids or anything but by super rich people that like to park their G wagons, Bentleys, Royces, you name it. So this time we roll up and there is this massive 14 passenger van (Mercedes Sprinter) that was blacked out, tinted windows, black rims, everything. So we just thought it was some goober loitering and we didn't pay much attention to it, so we went inside and came back out to take the trash to the dumpster and I saw the guy in the front seat just chilling and reading a book so I decided to talk to him and see whats up. I started off the conversation asking about his van and he says "oh ya its nice, but its not mine. It's KYLE LOWRY'S." My jaw just dropped and I'm like you're kidding right and he just says nope, I'm his body guard, Robin. I about lost my crap and he is like here let me show you inside. So he gets out and opens up the door and lets us go in and sit in his van, heat/cooling seats, flat screen TV, all Leather. goodness, I know I'm not supposed to focus on that kind of stuff but it was niiiiiiice. Then he casually said "ok, well I have to go pick up his wife and kid. I have to take them downtown for the first game against the Cavs." Wow. what an experience.
Earlier in the week, an elder bought our entire zone all you can eat sushi as well, so idk what's going on but I've been spoiled.
Our mission was also very blessed to have President Ballard, Elder Gay and Elder Homer come to our mission. Leading up to their visit we had a challenge as a mission to talk to 5,000 people in 4 days, we succeeded with 5,333 and it was a bunch of fun.
My Companionship didn't have a lot of time to go contacting this week so on Friday we set aside 2 hours to go to Yonge Street and talk to literally every person we could. So we did and it was nuts hahahaha During this window of time was crazy storm, winds were clocked at like 110 km/h and a rainstorm hit that flooded the street in like 5 minutes. The rain cleared and we kept contacting and we ended up talking to 102 people. Good stuff, we had a guy tell us he was Jesus, said a prayer with a guy from Cairo, saved an old man from the wind (he was holding onto a pole so he wouldn't blow away), saw pretty much every advertisement on the road break and fly into the traffic, saw another sign fall and puncture a hole into the hood of a Mercedes right in front of us. It was nuts. The whole city lost power for couple hours and all the stoplights were out for about 3 days.
Elder Ballard then came in and basically told us that work is the key to success, big surprise there, but hearing it from an apostle hit us all from a different angle. It was great, President Ballard shook my hand and looked straight into my sole. He is an Apostle of the Lord.
love you all!
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Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
