A Flying Car is like Spork

 (Elder Slade)

To the best friends and family a person could hope for,

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day. Our churches have started now, and we planned on one of the people we're teaching to come. We had our fellowshipper for him go to pick him up, but he came back with a different person named John. John is deaf, and it's kind of hard for a deaf person to learn much in a meeting with out a translator. So about 10 minutes in, he stretched himself out across the pew, and started snoring! We're pretty sure everyone heard him. But, he asked us if we could come back later in the afternoon and visit with him.

So we came back and visited with him (he has a writing board that we communicated with). We learned that he believes in Judaism. He later gave us a book, The Tanakh, which is the Jewish bible, and asked us to start teaching from it, and giving people a choice to convert to Judaism. Being LDS missionaries, we probably shouldn’t try to teach Judaism, but he then motioned over two people (one of which was someone we were already teaching), and told us to practice. My companion, Elder Nabrotzky took the book and told the people, "I want to ask you a huge favor. I want you to smile and nod as I gesture to this book." They did that, and John got really excited. And then he left us, asking us to come back in a week. I don't know what we'll say at that time. He was a really nice man, and I'm glad we got to talk with him, but it doesn't exactly fit our calling as missionaries, to teach another religion.

The title comes the new Elder in our apartment, Elder Huang. He is hilarious! He likes all things transit and transportation. In fact he does transit trivia every night. One day we were talking about flying cars, and he mad the analogy to a spork. I agree with him.

There's a single phrase from a talk that i wished to mention. It was talking about Jesus Christ and His Atonement, and our responsibility to follow him with our whole heart. The phrase is "Our all, is a small repayment for his all."

Fun fact of the day, Potatoes are 80% water. It's pretty cool. Love you all!