I said goodbye to a whole bunch of people in church yesterday which is honestly the worst part about leaving areas. It was super awesome though because this month is missionary March so our whole ward did a fast together for missionary work this month and we had a big break the fast party last night so I called it my farewell party. Lol! It was really fun though spending time with the ward before I leave. Of course Calvin was being his usual self and took a million pictures of me and everyone else. I even got a video of him singing to me! It was so funny! He showed us his YouTube channel and he has so many funny videos on there! One was him dancing and some ward party a few years ago! I was dying! It was a great last day though with the ward.
Also we have this crazy new investigator who wants to be baptised but he has a lot of problems. One is his girlfriend left him and some how cancelled his social security so now he has no money and he doesn't have a job except he worked at some Chinese restaurant by cutting some of their branches. He is super addicted to smoking too so he has no money cuz he spent them all on cigarettes and he's got a week left before he gets kicked out of his apartment. He hadn't gotten payed by the Chinese restaurant so we walked with him there to get some of the money because he said that e wouldn't go get his money unless we went with him. So we get there and we said that he needs to go inside and ask for the money and we would stay outside. He wouldn't go in without us but we finally convinced him to. We didn't really trust what he was going to do cuz he was really desperate. So we wait outside and then we hear some Chinese people start yelling a whole bunch and our investigator came out with two angry Chinese people yelling at him in Chinese. Then he told them that he didnt get payed for working there a few days so they gave him like $40 and then looked at us and said, "What's going on here! What do you want!" They were looking at us like we were a threat and that they wanted to fight us. We were just like, "um we just walked here with him." Then they started mumbling some words in Chinese and they went inside. It was really weird but he got some money to get himself on a bus to the social security office and fix whatever needed to be fixed. We were very explicit with him that he needed to only use that money to get to the social security office and not to buy cigarettes. He said ok and we left. Then the next day we found out that he bought cigarettes and burger king with the whole $40 so now he's in really big trouble. He said he's going to get a job now or he's going to get one of his family members to come from Washington and pick him up but we'll see.
Other than that this week was great. We got Shanika to stop drinking coffee and tea which was super easy because she is seriously the perfect investigator. We told her what the word of wisdom was and she didn't understand why she couldn't drink tea and coffee and then she was like, " actually that kind of makes sense" and she went on a explained why she shouldn't drink them! I'm gonna miss her so much! She's so awesome!
I love you all so much! Keep emailing me! I'll let y'all know how great Palatka is next week. By the way pday will be on Tuesday next week because of some stuff thats happening so I'll email then.
Love,
Elder Plumb
1.- 2. Last pday we got every single ball into the hoop! It was so awesome!
3.- 10. Ward party!
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