February 6th

Monday- got up worked out, went and played 18 holes of golf then we got lunch at Chick-fil-A. We went to email for quite a while at the library after lunch, once we left the library we went to the Fernandez, and played some killer ping pong. We left there went home got cleaned up and then went to the Msngums for dinner, and wow that was so fun. Then went to a members house and we talked with this super cool guy about life. We finally got home I studied read some things and now I'm going to bed!!

Tuesday- we had a super slow morning, but had good studies, super dope lunch! Then we went to the new library up in Pineville so we can do the safeguard for technology thing! And once we're through we went tracking went to a complex and we went  to go see 3 people. But we did indeed get three strikes. We ended up tracking the rest of the complex and not a single soul was home. And then we went to a neighborhood near our dinner appointment, and there we met the weirdest person I've had ever met! So this guy answers the door and all he was wearing was a button up shirt and that's it. So me being myself start the conversation off with just a casual/usual, door approach. And once I was done talking the guy said "what" so I  repeat myself, same thing "what"... so I again repeating myself and the same thing happened "what"... and this time I was like alright let's do something new.  I knew there was a package slip from FedEx on the front door so I'm mention that and still nothing. So thankfully my companion elder Winn was like alright we got to go, so we left this man that had no pants. We had dinner with the Smiths and that was always a blast I got talk trucks with Chuck. And then we went to the Birchs boys baseball game, and that was fun we ended the day at the Greens helping them move some things around.  I am now glad to be home!

Wednesday- so we're out tracking me and elder Wise because we are on exchanges and we are walking back to the car and we hear this "is it the Jehovah Witnesses, no mom its the Mormons get inside" I just think that is funny!!! That was the highlight of the day we got a cool new investigator just before that. We then went to the church to play some basketball and it was a party. We went to Dairy Queen to get some food and some guy wanted money so he can buy drugs. That was the day!

Thursday- this morning was a little different we had Pop (brother Green) come and inspect our apt and that's always fun. And right after he left we get a call from brother Green (Bobby is the son) and he needed help moving some wood so we drove over there and once we got there brother Green (Pop) shows up... It was pretty funny. But  we helped brother Green with his wood. Then went to Best Buy to get somethings for all the elders then we went to Pops for lunch and he cooked jambalaya for us it was bomb. Later that day we went out tracting and found 4 new investigators it was pretty bomb! Came home and worked out now bed!

Friday-  In the morning we got up and then went to district meeting,  district meeting was fun but a little long if you ask me. We then went to lunch at Walk-Ons with the Vidalia elders that was a party!  We then when tracking for second got shut down every door we had dinner at Nancy Williams it was interesting as always. There are two boys that are difficult to say the least! We went back home for a second and we went tracking again.  Elder Cate and I (we are on exchanges) started talking to this one girl she invited us in and told us we had 5 minutes. 20 minutes later me and elder Cate leave her apartment very confused! She was slightly drunk and couldn't quite piece together what were telling her it was indeed very fun we then went to go burn elder Cate's Tie because because he's been out 6 months (and that's what you do) got some ice cream went home played cards and now I'm going to bed!

Saturday- so got up this morning and went to Zion Hill Baptist Church, for prayer and breakfast. It was fun for sure my companion said that the food was extremely decent at best, and the Minister there was from Seattle Washington shout out! It was for sure different and interesting then what I'm used to. There was a spirit there, it was a raw spirit though not quite complete. After that we went to my church to do some work. It was real interesting when we walk into our building the spirit came on me so purely it confirmed that I am in the right church! Rest of the day was just another day it rained a lot we had, dinner  at the Sanders house and that was always super fun. Brother Sanders gave us some cool ties and it was awesome now it's bedtime excited for fast Sunday tomorrow.

Sunday- got up went to church it was bomb as always! Got home studyed for a quick min, then we had a lesson with Ali Sanders, we taught the plan of happiness to her and it was awesome! After that we went to the Burchs to brake our fast and to kick it for a sec. Ok so the other day we were at Wal-Mart with 2 other missionaries and some guys come up to us and start talking to us about church and it ened on them inviting us to come to there church, (today). So after dinner round 1 we went to the Pentecostal of Alexandria (church) and wow what an experience that was. It was fun and very different. But we meet some good people and got to talk to this young girl (14 teen) about what we do and it was dope. We were on our way out and this guy stopped us and talked to us and he told us that we "can't recruit here..." and we was giving us a hard time and I just flipped it a round and was like hay man we were invited here and we are here to learn about other faiths and ya ya ya it was fun. Then we went to the sander's to eat dinner round 2 it was just a good day!

Monday- Alright, Since it's transfer week today was a pro's  Monday which means you go proslighting (instead of it being P-day) and pro's Monday are always hard because no one is home. But was had a good day planed out  for the most part we have lunch with the Verchers and dinner with a sister in Pineville ward. But we had nothing in between so it was yet another long pro's Monday. Also on pro's Monday we get transfer calls and if you get one of them you are most likely to move to another area, or get a new companion. Which elder Winn and I did not want. But thank the Lord we are both staying and I'm very excited to do another transfer here! The rest of the day was whatever, we went tracking in a gated complex and some person yelled at us and said the F word many times and it was very interesting she was very angry for no particular reason. But whatever. I am very exited for tomorrow!

Hay thanks for reading my emails, I did this one a little different, let me know how you y'all liked it. I want to say I love all y'all so much and everyone that sent me  birthday wishes/ cards thanks so much. Please have a good week and do some good in the world!

Love Elder Gordon