This week has been pretty good, we were able to accomplish a lot, and this coming week looks fantastic. We have 17 lessons set for this week, and they are all solid, we should have no problem teaching 20+ lessons this week, which will be a first for this area.
Last Monday we went to dowtown Portland, which is, in case you didn't know, one of the strangest places on earth. It is a great place to just watch people, you can go there for just a couple hours, and literally see just about everything.
While we were there we went to Voodoo doughnut, which is a weird place in the first place, and there was a huge line of homeless people right around the corner. There were three of then standing right across the street, and one was yelling out "smack a punk for a dollar" He was trying very hard to get people to punch him in the face for a dollar. One man, who rode up on a bike in his underwear took up the offer. He then made fun of the "punk" for not having a real job. The "punk" responded with "I do this because I can do it no matter how drunk I am." That really puts a lot of confidence in the rising generation doesn't it?
I bought a dozen doughnuts from Voodoo, planning on having them with my breakfast for the next week or so, and so I took the box, rode home with it on the max, and then when we got our bikes, and proceeded to bike back to our house I made it ALMOST all the way back. About 2/3rds of the way there the wind caught the lid of the box, blew it open, and spilled my doughnuts all over the side of the road. It was very disappointing.
The rest of the week had a better ending than that. We were able to finally get in contact with one of our investigators, who is a really sweet kid, and who already knows a lot. He told us that he has already been mistaken for a mormon, and he is in all senses of the term a "dry mormon", meaning he just hasn't been baptized. We will hopefully change that soon.
We had our zone conference last week, and as always I learned a lot from it, some things for myself, and others for the work. I hope to be able to use all of the things I learned in this coming week.
Exciting news from the mission. We are having a mission tour, and Elder Lawrence E Corbridge of the 70 is coming. In addition to that, the week before that an member of the 12, or the first presidency is going to come, and meet all of the missionaries, and have a Q&A with us. Its going to be sweet.
Thats about all that I have for you guys. I havn't gotten a package from Julie yet, and I don't need a journal. Mine is still mostly unused, even with me writing in it every day. I wasn't very good at the beginning, but I have written in my journal everyday since December 27 2011.
Love you guys.
Elder Schultz.
PS. Transfers are next Monday, and who knows whats going to happen, so if I don't write on Monday you know someone got transferred. I don't think either one of us will, but you never know, and Elder Awtry thinks he is going, and he does want to move on to bigger and better areas. We'll see how it goes.
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