Week 43: Black holes are wonderful!

This week's been a little difficult, but it's also been another learning week. We've been struggling with finding new investigators, and we're looking to see what we can do to have more success. Our mission leaders have given us some ideas, and we're grateful and excited to keep working our hardest.

I had an exchange with a zone leader this week, and it was really different from any other exchange I've ever had. I'm pretty sure that's the busiest, most crazy day I've ever had as a missionary. I don't know if my companion ever had more than 15 minutes off the phone besides being in lessons. It was still a lot of fun though - we taught some fun recent converts in our area and committed them to talk to the Bishop about going to the temple. One of my favorite parts of the exchange was when we saw a Chinese family and gave them their baptismal interviews. It was amazing to see how much joy they had in the gospel and to see how much they loved the Church. After I bore my testimony to them of what the gospel has meant to me in my life, they told me that they want to get that kind of testimony that I had. I love being a missionary!

Sorry that there's not too much this week, but hope everyone's doing well across the pond! Hope everyone has a great week!

Elder McOmber

Funnies of the Week:

We had a lesson with a very proper older woman with a poppy English accent, and somehow she got on the topic of talking about the universe, and she told us in that proper accent, "Black holes are wonderful." Imagine hearing Lady Catherine from Pride and Prejudice telling you that, and then you'll know what I mean.

Companion: "What was that word you used, Elder? Oftenicity?" Me: "You mean frequency?" Companion: "Yeah, that one!"

I was on an exchange with one of our zone leaders when we were teaching a family from the Congo in Africa. They'd prepared some Scotch Bonnet (peppers 100 times hotter than jalepenos!) for lunch, and the zone leader convinced me to try a little bit. I don't know if I've ever downed a glass of milk faster than I did then.