Week 13: Call 911! [October 23, 2017]

I had a pretty crazy week this week. We got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders and I got to do a lot of tracting. It went pretty well considering that we found three potentials for them. We also had a good lesson with one of our more difficult investigators. We taught her how the scriptures will bless our lives if we study from them and follow their teachings. We also had a lunch with one of the less actives we're trying to work with. He's a pretty cool guy and it sounds like we'll be able to meet with him more often. We also had dinner with a part member family and talked about baptism and why it's important. 

We had zone conference on Friday where we talked about how technology will help move the work along. I'm really exited for all the new things coming up! We got to watch some of the new district videos and see how cell phones will move the work forward.

I got to use my bike for the first time this week. I was on exchanges in one of the bike areas and the main thing I took from it was that I'm out of shape.

Now for the  crazy story. Sunday morning we were driving to see one of our investigators when we saw a guy running in the street and jumping in front of cars (not in a suicidal way but a "I'm on drugs kind of way). He then went into some bushes and started to make gun gestures to cars and acting like he was calling someone. When we drove past Elder Kopaunik gave him the peace sign and he gave it back and yelled at us. We called 911 and we thought that was that. A little later we saw him in a grocery store parking lot. We drove in and he started chasing our car trying to ram it with a shopping cart. At that very moment a police car drove up an turned on his lights. He yelled at the guy and we watched as the police talked with him and he started waving his hair brush like a sword and showing them his belly button. They eventually arrested him. It made us feel like we helped clean up the streets! (Elder Kopaunik got pictures).

We gave talks in sacrement meeting on member missionary work. And we got a new ward mission leader, Brother Gover. It was kind of sad that Brother Harper won't be our ward mission leader anymore, but he told us today that he'll be a ward missionary so we'll still be able to work with him.

That's all for this week!

Elder Jason Riches