"This is week 100 for me in the mission field".....Week 100

So this was my comps weekly email. I figured it covered everything well enough. And he has way better grammer skills than me haha. 

Our investigator was at work this week, and during his break time, he was reading the Book of Mormon. He is 18 years old from New Zealand and as he was reading the Book of Mormon, heaps of co-workers asked and even scoffed saying, "Why are you reading that book?" Now most people from New Zealand are cheeky as. So our investigator turned to them smiling, "Don't you worry, I'm a man of God now." We were also teaching him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he kept on saying, "I'm so glad that I am Mormon." He is not even baptized.

We are still working with our investigator from Venezuela. One of the sweet as experiences we had with her this week was we mowed her lawn for her and asked how her Book of Mormon reading went. In our previous appointment, both Elder White and I forgot to bring a Book of Mormon so Elder White gave his Book of Mormon to her. When we tried to give her a brand new copy she would not give Elder White's Book of Mormon back because it was all marked. She was reading all of the marked verses and is loving it. 

When you go on a mission, they always make you watch what is called "the District." It is a live documentary about missionaries in California who try to show us what missionary work is supposed to be like. Every time I watch it, I always say to myself, "This is a picture perfect mission. No mission is like this." So Elder White and I have begun to make our own District documentary, and it has been absolutely hilarious. There is only four of the twenty four missionaries in the zone are Americans. So some of the things they say are crack up! We have two missionaries from Vanuatu and when we tried to wake them up at six thirty in the morning and they said, "My handbook does not say to wake up at six thirty!" We kept on telling yes it does, but he pulled out his white hand book and he wrote in it, "You must arise at seven thirty." 

We had a meeting with the Stake President this week and he challenged the Zone to have sixty investigators at church on one Sunday. As a mission we have two goals which is to have 125 people show up to Sacrament Meeting, and to have 35 baptisms in the month of December. So we had a fast as a mission, and for the first time I was not hungry. I was just so thirsty! It was hot and humid this week, and when I was at church I kept on seeing members drinking from the faucet and I would yell, "They broke their fast! Look, look Elder White, he is breaking his fast." My companion tried to calm me down saying it is the missions fast and not the ward's, but I am not myself when I fast. I start to hallucinate.

This is me and my comp. And the vanuatu elders that are crack up

This is week 100 for me in the mission field. I love it. This is the happiest I have been. It is such an amazing experience. You grow so much and have heaps of crack up stories. 

Love you all heaps:)

Elder White