Hey,
Thanks for those photos. It is great to see everyone. Send
more photos! I will try to as well. Are you excited for next week? I can't wait
to talk to you guys.
I just wanted to explain something I said in dad's email,
how I am going to play basketball. A few weeks ago we contacted this little
Philipinno guy who was really born-again Christian. We just compared faith vs.
works scriptures on the street. He was cool, but we didn't really get anywhere.
Then last week we saw him in Subway and talked to him again. He is a cool guy.
Then this morning, we were travelling to the train station in Windsor and he
saw us across the street. I am currently wearing my Toronto Raptors Vince
Carter jersey, so he yelled across the street at us and then ran over to say
hi. He started asking me if I play basketball and invited us out to play with
him and his friends. I guess him and a bunch of Philipino Christian dudes play
some basketball every Saturday. So I said we would go this Saturday
and play. He was pretty excited. I will have to bring Elder Huang here because
Pettersen can't play ball at all. So we will exchange that day. Elder Huang is
from Singapore and isn't that great either, but this whole district is horrible
at bball and he is the next best. It should be fun and maybe we will meet
somebody cool there.
Last night was really good. The woods have moved into their
new house. We went over after church with the Barals and they made dinner and
we had a really good night. We then watched the hour long Joseph Smith video
together to help them understand the restoration a bit better. They had a ton
of questions as they watched. Elder Wood would go on for like
10 minutes just rambling after every question and just confuse
everyone. I would then have to give a very brief and to the point answer to the
question but it was still really frustrating. The Woods seem to have this desire
to tell everything they know about the gospel and church history they can to
anyone they can. Like obscure details and deep doctrine and stuff. But they are
old so I feel like I can't really tell them how bad it is.
We have started working with a new guy named Jeff. He is
really cool, from Kenya, and although he bailed on us for church at 915 sunday
morning, I think he is genuine. He has been baptized Anglican, but pretty much
said 'well obviously...' when I asked if he would be baptized again when he
knew the BoM was true. He wants an answer to his prayer about the BoM and then
to join our church. That is always nice, and hopefully it works out that way.
Another really cool thing this week was we taught young mens
again. We have been working with them a lot lately. We were supposed to do a
misison prep activity. So we decided that we would make it fun. We split the
boys into groups of two, and gave each one of them an egg, a roll of tape, a
sheet of newspaper, 15 straws, and ten popsicle sticks. I think I saw this on
ZOOM (the old tv show) many years ago. So they had to design something with the
given materials that would protect the egg from cracking while being dropped
from the highest height. It was such a fun activity and I think it will help
them remember the spiritual things we talked about afterwards
(relating the activity to missionary work). I will probably do the same thing
in my next district meeting.
Ya so it's been a good week and I think this next week will
be even better. We are going to go have a zone football p-day!
Love ya, Elder Steed
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