Washingtonians Say the Darndest Things

I know I say this a lot but time is insane. Its the last week of my 9th transfer! How is that possible? Anyway. We went on another two exchanges and had a normal week. Lots of funny moments happened this week with my favorite being the result of this emails title. 

Tuesday I stayed in Elma with Sister Humphreys and it was way great! At the end of knocking (very last door) we met this guy and began introducing ourselves "Hi we're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ..." he cut us of and finished our sentence, "of Latter-day Saints. One moment..." He walked off and Sister Humphreys and I looked at each other a little concerned expecting him to come back out and 'bash' (missionary term for saying really mean and 99% of the time incorrect 100% of the time out of context things about the church and our beliefs). After saying a quick little prayer in my heart that we'd find a way to avoid being yelled at we here him tell someone else to turn the tv off and come say hi to us. A young teen boy returns with him to the door. Instead of bashing us he introduces us and informs us this kid is the son of a family friend who is involved in the young men's presidency in a ward an hour away and is visiting. It was hilarious. Instead of bringing out his bible to tear us down he brought out a mormon! Very unexpected. We then hold a conversation with this guy for a good bit as he teaches us about how we can't trust an english bible because its been changed and tells us we need to get a Hebrew bible. It was a lot more entertaining to us than what I can put into words within a short limited time.

I had an intense study on Alma 50:1-12 on Friday it was amazing! I wish I had enough time to share it with you but I'd encourage you to go read those verses and ask how we can apply that to our lives in a personal/spiritual perspective. (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/50?lang=eng) I found it is the perfect map to how we can protect ourselves from the negativity and decline of the world's standard and the influences they attempt to have on all around.

Saturday we had a really funny experience while tracting. We knocked into this guy that told us he'd been baptized at 15 but wasn't a member any more. He went one for 3 or so minutes about how he's never seen the same missionaries twice and how every new set seems to be prettier and prettier. He then looks into my eyes and exclaims how gorgeous and brown they are and does the same to Sister Brewster. Then he how old we are we tell him 22 and 23 so he asks if we have any "suitors" at home. I reply no but that I have plenty of time for that later and he looks at me very seriously and very concerned and tells me "no you don't" It was the funniest thing ever! Apparently I'm already an old maid! Well darn. I can't count the number of jokes we've made from that one comment. I love Washington. The people here say the greatest things!

Well loved ones I'm out of time (shocker) so here are some pictures and until next week...

LOVE YOU! and read Alma 50!