Hey Hey! What a week! Sorry
this email is a day late; all the libraries were closed due to the holiday.
L-Cat and Jonathan you guys are the cutest family I have ever seen. I am
jealous you guys had a great trip in Hawaii. I am not too jealous though because
Cedar Rapids pretty much has tropical beaches and beautiful scenery all around
us... I will draw some similarities really quick. Hawaii has beaches where
people wear swimsuits and men don't wear shirts. Well, Cedar rapids doesn't
have any beaches but the lack of clothing remains for some. I think living in
Iowa has made me more content with my appearance without a shirt on! What a
blessing. I have quite a bit to report on so I will waste no time and get
right to it.
This weekend was pretty
wild. Like I mentioned before, we live within a one mile radius of like six
bars so you know the party was pretty sweet. Especially on Sunday night. There
was a huge party at one of the bars close to our house. When I was doing my
weekly call in reports (I call the district members and they report numbers and
talk about investigators) I heard like six gun shots. Yep I am pretty sure
there was a gun fight right outside our apartment. Each gun shot was followed
by an ambulance wailing down the street. Never fear though, we are safe!
Another fun story of the
week. One night we went knocking to finish off the night. It was about 8:45 so
people were extra cranky that two white boys were knocking on their door. At
one of these doors, a couple sweet daughters of God came bursting out of the
door, and asked what we wanted. I barely had time to say that we were
missionaries before getting cussed out like never before. I have never heard
the F word used so many times in such little time. Usually if this is the case,
I get a little sassy and try to save the OYM but this time I just wanted to get
out of there. Man, it was brutal. Pray for that woman. There really isn't a
moral of this story, that is all.
We are working with an
awesome lady named D. She is getting ready to be baptized on July 1st. She has
had a pretty tough life. She has some health challenges so she can’t work or
drive. She is awesome though. We went through the baptism questions with her
yesterday and she is all good to go. We just need to help her with a couple
other things and she will be all good to get baptized! Hoorah!
One thing that is great
about the Midwest is that there are fireflies all over the place at night. We
will be talking to someone and all of the sudden a yellow light will start flashing
around us. It is the coolest thing. That is all.
Out of our teaching pool,
more than half of them are from Africa. I love those people so much. Their love
for the Savior and their humility is so inspiring. We talked to a guy the other
day that when he saw that our name tags said Jesus Christ he stopped and said,
"Oh I love that man!" I want to go and do some humanitarian work in
Africa when I get home. I love them. Hopefully we will have a couple of them
enter the waters of Baptism here soon. They are great.
Not too much else to report
on this week. The District is starting to see more success and we are excited
about the work going down here in Cedar Rapids.
I love you guys! Have a
great week!
Elder Obray
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| You see stuff like this all the time. Pretty sure this guy was under the influence. He fell off his bike twice while we were watching him. |
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