I Don't Even Know

This week was probably the weirdest week of my life.... but there was also a lot of blessings that we saw!  First things first, WE HAD A TORNADO!!!! I have been wishing for a tornado or hurricane for the longest time so that we can do some crazy clean up, but there was no damage in crestview, even though there were apparently 2 tornadoes here, nonetheless we still got to see some CRAZY weather!!  It rained harder than I have ever seen before and the lightning and thunder was like an incredible light show!!  We had a blast sitting on our back porch watching everything happen.

Later in the week, Elder Renslow and I were sound asleep and got woken up to a phone call from the other Elders at 2:00 am!!!  We heard Elder Pranger say "Hey uhhhh.. Elders?  Can you come pick us up?" and we were thinking "What the heck!? From where?! It's 2:00 AM" and he responds and says "We are at the hospital and can't get home..."  So we got out of bed and drove over to the hospital at 2:00 in the morning to pick the Elders up, it turns out the other Elder's whole body went numb and ice cold and his vission went blurry, the doctors said he just had a panic attack... the next day we got a phone call from the mission office getting mad at us for being out at 2:00 AM (thanks to stupid tiwi) but we explained the whole thing and he was like "Oh... thats a good reason to be up and driving around" hahaha it was so funny!!

On the missionary side of things, there was almost no luck this week... we went to see Jim Brown 2 times but he wasnt home, and the Jenkins bailed on us 3 times... thankfully we ended up teaching them, but they still aren't reading from the Book of Mormon and didn't come to church this week): The biggest thing of the week was that we got to see Isaiah, a recent convert who hasn't been to church in forever and hasn't been talking to anyone, but we played basketball with him and talked about life, and he even came out on splits with us!!!  He is such a cool kid who is going through a lot, but we are going to start working with him some more!

While we had nothing to do, we decided to start knocking on doors, and found this kid named Daniel (19 years old) and taught him two times this week!!  He said that he would read and pray about the Book of Mormon, so I am excited to see him next week!  We also taught Joey Moore (the young Joey) about the Restoration of the Gospel and he too said that he would read and pray and we set a baptismal date with him for March 26th (we don't know how strong that is, but hey, its there!)

One last cool story, we had like 3 appointments bail on us, so we decided to go and visit this kid named Quinton and his dad; it was perfect, because they were outside!!  They walked right up to us and started talking!!  We built a good relationship with them and got a return appointment.  Before we left, Quinton wanted to go on a bike ride, so we rode up the street a little and he asked if he could knock on some doors with us!!!! haha It was so crazy!!  We had already knocked that street and didn't know if we should have a non member tract with us, so we told him we had to go...

This week was a pretty crazy one filled with lots of strange adventures, disappointments and excitements.  I love y'all so much and hope that you have an awesome week!!

Love

Elder Schipaanboord

We had to put our beds in the hall, away from the windows.