PRAISE BE!!! I FOUND A CYBER FOR 30 bob/hr! It will probably suck, but so long as it doesn't suck more than the other one it will be tolerable. It's a 40min walk from the flat though... that's the downside.
Anyway, we spent 4 hours in weekly planning today and didn't get everything I wanted to done. I did get to experience another bout of horror when I got a good look at the area book. I barely made a dent in it during those 4 hours.
Anyway, things are pretty well on track here. We're gonna be contacting a lot, we're gonna try to see as many people as we can, and we're just gonna try to get this area up and going.
Not going to be easy - we were bounced three times today. The only person who showed was the member who was supposed to help us teach. I made her die laughing with my descriptions of the Old Testament. She now want to read it for some reason - despite that fact that I made it very clear that Leviticus existed solely as a cure for insomnia. I also explained Jacob's story like it was an anime plot: "NANI???? ANO BETSU NA ONNA WA AKUMA DA!!!"That was fun. She died laughing and I kinda hope my comp did too (he was sitting behind me so I couldn't see him). I then proceeded to strongly recommend Saints.
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I suppose this is what it means to have a captive audience.
Anyway, we came back to the flat early and I tried to figure out how the heck language study works. I still haven't.
After we finished that the other Elders stopped by and E.Segale beat me in a chess game in less than two minutes. Man! It's been forever since I played last. I don't think it was hard for him to trounce me. Well, not that I was ever that good at chess to begin with. I never played it enough.
I got to see E. Clegg for the first time in three months as well. It was kinda weird.
9/12
Well, we finally got to see the fruits of some of our contacting today. We have four new investigators. 2 of the four have interesting stories.
The first interesting story is when we were teaching a Brother named Moses. Apparently, he hadn't told his father we would be coming, so when this guy walked in on the lessons he acted rather similar to a cornered animal. He was about to throw us out of his house when the spirit put it in my head that he thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses. I cleared that up instantly and he calmed down a little. I could see that he was still tense so I offered to leave. He had calmed down enough to be able to say: "no, it's fine. continue."I also invited him to join us, but he was too busy and "firm in his faith."
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I wanna teach this guy. He would be powerful if he was converted.
As for the guy we were actually there to teach I have no idea what happened. The whole thing was in swahili and I decided to throw my comp into the fire. I know enough swahili by now to follow a lesson, but I just sat there and every-time my comp tried to pass it to me I just looked at him. He and the member we brought with us ended up teaching this short lesson without me and we left. Was I a jerk for doing this? Yes. Am I doing this without a reason? No. Looking back I know why I did it, but I don't know why I started doing that. Must be the spirit because E.Mathemera did the same thing to me when he forced me to take the lead during lessons to help me practice doing it. Fun.
As for the other interesting lesson we had this guy tell us he had two wives. One was sitting there with us who had introduced herself as THE wife, so I think there might be something there. I'm kinda hoping it's a Ï have two wives, but I divorced the first one"kind of thing. I pray that's what it is, because I don't look forward to teaching chastity and I'm trying to figure out whether I should teach it earlier or later. Do I show my hand now to force a decision or do I try to build a testimony while side-stepping a known issue? I'll probably end up asking President if we keep teaching this guy.
Oh, btw. I've only described our morning so far. We did all that before noon. It was nice. The afternoon was empty by comparison. We visited an RC and reviewed the WoW with him, then contacted, then went to see a member. It was a lot slower than the morning, but I'm really wiped for the day.
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