hello! I pretty much just talked to you guys, but a lot of funny stuff has happened since then! Also dad, I loved your hecka long letter. It made me laugh that you said that ha. It's great that you sold the van! and you guys are FINALLY getting the yard landscaped! yay! hopefully it will be done by the time I come home!
then we go to visit this other less active. and we pull up to his house. no just kidding. it is not a house. it is a freaking MANSION. in the middle of the woods. literally the door was so big sis tolman was like: "i don't even know where to knock." they have like 5 mercedes sitting in their driveway. anyways we knock and his son (i think) lets us in and goes to get his dad. okay their christmas tree is like 20 feet high. and their house is just ridiculous. anyways he talks to us, and everything he was telling me just made me so sad. he told us that he didn't want us to waste his time with him because he knows we are busy and he has zero interest. he said that if something doesn't make any philosophical sense to him, there is no reason to pray about it. I was like NOOOO. you have it the opposite way! if you pray about something and it is true, does it matter if it doesn't make sense? and also, everything in the gospel makes so much sense! that is what I love about it! every time I read the book of mormon especially in conjunction with the bible, it all makes so much sense! they fit together perfectly. the plan of salvation makes so much sense. but anyway, it just made me really sad that he won't pray about something because it doens't make sense to him. their family could be such a strong family in the church. and he even said they live all the same standards, but he doesn't understand that they could be so much happier with the gospel.
okay but then we had a total highlight! we went to go see another less active, stephen beers! he and his wife are SO NICE. they invited us in and had us sit down. so he converted when he was in the air force and then went on a mission to las vegas. we don't know exactly why yet he stopped coming to church. we know that he butted heads with his mission president, but we don't know if that is all to the story. his wife, lisa, is a nonmember. but they are so nice! he told us that it has been a while since the missionaries came by. anyways, we talked to them for awhile and found out about what they like. he is a big geocacher!!!! have you guys heard of geo caching? oh my gosh it sounds so fun! I don't feel like explaining it so just look it up online! he even told us he would want to take us geocaching sometime! but he told us where the geocaches are here in butler and told us the hints so we can go find them! so today after we are done shopping we are going to geocache! and we didn't think there were fun things to do in butler on p day. we were so wrong! and we figure that once we geocache, he is really going to love us! but it was so awesome talking to them. we didn't have a lot of time because it was late and we had to go home, so we didn't get to actually give them a lesson, but we ended with a prayer before we left. and I think it was so good that we spent time getting to know them, and i think it showed him that we are actually there because we want to help him, not just to have another less active lesson to add to our numbers for the day. obviously we wish we could have gotten in a lesson with him, but I think we created a good relationship with them. they told us to come back any time and they would be there! we really hope we can get him to start coming back to church and teach his wife the lessons. anyway look up geocaching. it's what I will be doing this afternoon! next week I'll send you awesome pictures hahha.
okay well I am having tons of fun out here! sister tolman and I laugh all the time! she is awesome! getting to skype with you guys on christmas was so much fun! christmas was incredible. we got to go to a nursing home in the afternoon and visit with people who normally don't get visitors. it was so cool spending the day serving! we found a man in the nursing home, julio, who is from puerto rico and speaks spanish!!! so we told him we were going to come back, and we will spend our language study with him one day! two birds with one stone! service and language study. we can just speak to him in spanish, and that will probably help me more than anything! I am so excited that I get to be here for two christmases though. christmas was incredible! I really really love it here though! you guys are awesome. thank you for all the christmas presents. I love the ipod.
love you guys! miss you guys!
hermana davis
okay so one day we had planned out like 13 less active people to go try. and they were all in the same general area. so we get to the first one, and we couldn't exactly see the house numbers, so we just decide to park and get out and find the house. So we park, get out of the car, start walking toward the houses, and this guy calls out to us: "are you girls lost or somethin g?" sister tolman: "we are just looking for david in house 313." him: "well david lives a few houses down that way. you are parked in a private driveway." sis tolman: "oh we are so sorry. we'll move the car." him: "you mean you are telling me that you had no idea that that is a driveway?" (he was basically calling her a liar). sis tolman: "umm yes we didn't know it was a driveway..." okay it does not look anything like a driveway! it looked like it was just a road! like I thought we had just turned down a road and parked! (keep in mind that this was in the dark too!) anyways, we get in the car, and we see that this guy whose driveway we had parked on is standing on the side of his house holding a baseball bat! like he was going to beat the person who accidentally parked on his driveway. and the guy who had been talking to us (his neighbor I guess) called out to him (the guy holding the baseball bat): "you're good. I told them to leave." WHAT, these pennsylvania people really like their driveways. hahaha we just left and decided to skip visiting david that night. so anyways we almost got beat with a baseball bat! I was actually a little creeped out when I saw him holding the bat!
okay after that, we go try this other girl and nobody answered. so we do the "tract 5." so if the person who you were planning on seeing wasn't home, you tract the 5 houses surrounding them. but we were actually just going to do a tract one because it was a really creepy area, and the apartment/house thing next door had a light on. so we knock on the door. and the lady in there yells through the door in the most nasally voice I think I have ever heard: "who is it?" we say: "missionaries from..." she cuts us off: "who is it? who is it?" we answer again. she says: "NO GO AWAY. we are eating dinner." she seriously had the most horrible voice in the world. ryan I am starting to get all these funny tracting stories now!
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