It's almost Fall!

The last two days have been overcast and that always makes me so happy. I'm so weird, haha! Sun = Sad and Clouds = Happy for me.

Luckily it didn't rain on us while we were tracting and knocking doors up and down streets this week. We need new Investigators, the ones we have are all dropped or not progressing... And I had two experiances I would like to tell you about that concern the previously mentioned tracting. One good and one Bad.

Bad: Many people are not interested in our message and will politely (or not very politely at all) decline to hear more. Once suck occasion was a man who did not speak Spanish but was not skilled at English either. Anyways, he said "No" and we accepted that and said "Okay, have a nice Day!" And turned to go to the next house. Because sometimes I have trouble remembering how many people we have talked to that day I keep a tally mark column in my little planner. As we walked to the next house I made a mark and put my planner away. Halfway between driveways we hear the man behind us. He had exited his house and was saying something so we turned and asked if we could help him. We had trouble understanding but he was pointing at me and then at his house while yelling. The clearest part I understood was "You are... very BAD!" He was accusing me of writing down his house number so I could come back and rob him. I think at least, he was very angry and frankly I was more than a little scared. We tried to tell him I was writing something else down but he could not or would not understand. So we just had to keep going to the next door. He watched us until we went back to our car four houses later. I thought he was going to call the police on us or something! Which the police would scare me less than the man because they probably know Mormon Missionaries and would know we don't mean any harm.

Now on to the nice experiance that kind of balances out the one before.

So we were doing the tracting thing, inviting people to learn. Once house we knocked a man answered and we gave an introduction and a few Gospel Truths such as how we have a Prophet to lead and guide us today and that Families can live together forever. He then said "Do you guys really believe all that stuff?" My immediate reaction was an enthusiastic "Yeah!" He then said "So do I, I'm a member." He then proceeded to let us inside and gave use brownies and icecream. He was a member from the English Ward that we didn't know but he talked to us for a while and gave us some water too. We picked a great Day to visit, they were going to have a double birthday party later so that's why he had the treats! That was really nice.

So now I have to wonder when we go tracting if thise door is going to have a mean paranoid person or a lovely kind and generous person behind it. Or no one answers. That happens a lot too.

OH! And the best activity EVAR was on Saturday night. International Food Night where everyone brings food from their country and dresses up. That was FABULOUS!! THe only bad part was that in true Latino fashion they started TWO HOURS late. And then because of that combined with our curfew of 9:30 to be in our apartments we couldn't stay long enough to see the dancing! Their dresses were SO BEAUTIFUL I wanted to see so bad! The little girls were going to dance too! *sigh* Oh well...

And that's all for now I believe.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Love Hermana Smart