The downfall is that I've become inactive from Church

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Today's stories feature a couple follow ups. 

Exhibit A: Keith and his precious family.

Two weeks ago I wrote about a perfect family that we met at the temple model.  We got their address in Virginia and sent the missionaries there right away.  The Church is still true in Virginia because the family has been contacted.  They met with them twice and even invited the fam to play football.  Yeah!  We talked to Keith (the Dad) over the phone yesterday and made sure that the local missionaries are doing their job then we committed him to have family prayer.  They're moving to Utah in two weeks which is a bit of a bummer because I wish they could be a strong family for the ward in Virginia but it's all good. 

Exhibit B: Alexander a.k.a Bulgarian who had a visit from the missionaries while we were on the phone with him.

We finally got a hold of him after a week.  We tried to teach him more but he wasn't feelin' it.  We asked him his beliefs about God but he told us that he didn't really want to be taught.  He just wanted to talk about other things with us.  Wha?  We asked him what other things we would talk about and he said Canada.  Boooo.  We are not here to talk about Canada.  Then he asked us if we ever get breaks in the day and if we ever go to the mall across the street.  This brought us to feel kind of creeped out so we had to end the conversation.  He told us that he may show up on temple square again.  So we decided that we shouldn't call him again at least for a little while since he's not interested to learn about the gospel plus he's creeping us out.  THEN on Monday we went to the Harmon's grocery store during lunch.  We were just walking along, doing our own thing and all  I hear is, "Kyle!"  We look and see Alexander standing behind the deli counter.  I'm pretty sure he thinks my legitimate name is Kyle.  We didn't know what to do when we saw him and it took a few seconds to register who he was; luckily he had a name tag on.  It was even weirder because that morning in our district meeting we were talking about how we were sad that we had to stop teaching Alexander because he didn't want to learn.  So one awkward conversation later, we were in a really weird state and went to find our food.  I guess we can't completely drop him now since we'll see him every so often.  So we'll just tell all the sisters to say hi to Alexander at the deli counter when they go to Harmon's.  Basically, he can't get rid of us and there's no way out.  I'll let you know when he gets baptized though we're still not going to teach him because of the creep factor.

West Gate is super busy but it's still a dream.  I'm crossing my fingers that I'll have the same assignment for next transfer.  The downfall is that I've become inactive from Church.  yes.  As a missionary.  We usually take the sacrament at 7:30 on Sundays then ditch out of Church to serve the Mandarin motor coaches.  Shoot.  Some days are very mentally draining and I'm perma-tired but that's not compeletly new for me.  I'll be a no-nap zombie for another year but it's worth it. 

While we talk to so many non-members of the Church everyday, obviously a lot of members come so we get to teach them too.  On Sunday, we found a young guy and his wife.  We stopped to talk to him only because he was wearing a canadian shirt.  I think it was inspired that he wore that shirt that day.  The two seemed uncomfortable to talk to us but we're missionaries so we kept talking through the uncomfort.  We showed them the temple model and it was obvious that they hadn't gotten married in the temple.  I knew right then that we had to take them to watch the presentation of God's plan for families.  We walked over to the North VC and waited in line for roughly a billion years.  We had planned to go home for dinner at that point but we knew we had to teach this member couple.  Another member family jumped in and watched the presentation with us.  At the end, we committed both families to have family prayer every night for the whole week.  The second family didn't hesitate to say yes.  The young newlyweds just looked at eachother.  The husband seemed to be on board and finally the wife gave in and said yes.  We could tell that the couple hadn't been to Church in a while so it felt soooo good to help them get back on track. 

The Church is true.  The End.

LOVE, SISTER KYLE