4am- wake up and watch a parade of bagpipes
5am- get drunk
following day- wake up without any memories of Anzac Day
haha Australians like their beer. ;)
Earlier this week, we had an interesting experience. Elder Smith and I went to visit a member (Mylei) who lives in the ghetto end of town. Right as we knock on the door to her apartment, her neighbor steps out of the unit right next to me. She starts yelling and swearing at us and tries to chase us out of the complex. I don't get mad (strange) but just try and ask her if something happened that day to upset her. (still yelling at us) She accuses us of coming to take away Mylei's daughter from her. As she continues yelling at us, we gather that (1) she has been mixed up with drugs/alcohol/immorality for her whole life; (2) her son died when he was 2 years old; (3) 2 men (who looked like us) had come and taken her son to the other side; and (4) she thought that we were here to take Mylei's 2 year old daughter to heaven.
Obviously, this woman suffered from a few mental problems, but it makes me wonder if there's any truth to her story. (disclaimer: this story may or may not represent church doctrine)
Funny/Spiritual Story:
There is a man in our ward named Tom who is very similar to Tad (my younger brother) when he has his "crazy hair". As we file in to church yesterday, I'm excited to see him on the stand, ready to give a talk. But right before we start sacrament, he gets this worried look on his face. He gets up and runs in and out of the chapel a few times (looking for something) before taking his seat on the stand. When he gets up to speak, he starts out by saying "I don't know how this happens every time, but somehow I misplaced one of the pages of my talk in the trash, so I had to go grab it right before the meeting started". (it seems like something Tad would do) As he continues his talk, he gets to a point about halfway through a page where he stops mid-sentence and announces "I don't like this page" and picks up mid-sentence on the following page.
Now the spiritual side:
As Tom got towards the end of his talk, he struggled more and more with reading. Finally, he went off-script and explains how when he joined the church, he couldn't read at all. He had begun meeting with the missionaries while he was a homeless drunk living on the streets. He gave up drinking and smoking and turned his life around so that he could be baptized. Tom then quoted Ether 12:27 from memory and bore his testimony about the Atonement. It was really awesome.
It's exciting to have Mother's Day coming up around the corner! I'm looking forward to talking with everyone back home!
Elder Nelson
1. Me and a dog
2. Early (free) breakfast on Anzac day
3. A cool tie I did this week
4. Katrina had us over for dinner :)
5. *after* we finished eating
6. Ami and Kolli flashing gang signs as we were leaving
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