Little Boys Still Pushing Big Bills

Hello,

This week started out with a nice little walk around the chapel saint pierre where I learned a lot about the protestant movement. We often contact not far from this chapel where they have statues of the reformers. That makes it really easy to bring up the subject of a true church! But anyway, it was a beautiful place!

We started out the week going hard. We are having a big push to teach twenty lessons per week in our mission and I don't plan on falling short. We only had one lesson on monday, but that's okay because it was a pday.

Tuesday we had an exchange with the elders from Gex. I was with elder sebra and we were contacting separately. This guy got mad at me and started yelling and then walked away. I noticed this lady looking at my sad self standing there disappointed and so I walked up to her. 20 minutes later, I had taught both her and her daughter the restoration and they asked for the missionaries number for where they live. I gave them the number and also a book of mormon saying that it was free. They simultaneously pulled their bags off of their shoulders and pulled out money. It then turned into an argument of who was going to take the gift of the other. In the end, should wouldn't accept the book without giving me something in return, so I told her that I could put the money into the general missionary fund and she was okay with that. This was quite the day for me because everyone in this park was really generous. I walked out of there with 120 swiss francs for the general missionary fund. We also met out new investigator named denis. He's a cool guy and he loves the church. As he continues to understand, he will surely be baptized.

Later that night we had big plans that ended up falling through and we found ourselves in annemasse with two hours to spare. So, we went contacting. Then, the office called us and told us that there was a missionary not accounted for and he was probably at the geneva train station. So, we sprinted with all of our stuff back to the car and drove off. Then they called us and said that he showed up to where he was supposed to be. So, we were tired and sweaty and hungry and we went inside to eat. 

There were some emergency transfers in the zone and so we had to take care of some stuff. That was a good experience and everyone is safe. Wednesday was special for me because i realized that we had hung out with a bunch of americans in the morning, taught a girl from brazil (her name is Jamel and she should be baptized soon), and then ate at an iranians house at night. I don't think I could be having a better experience here. 

On thursday, we taught a family in the park. Elder Keller taught the dad and I taught the daughter. It was an interesting experience to teach a 14 year old. She thought she had everything figured out and I realized that I did too at that age. 

The rest of the week was pretty packed with stuff and we couldn't find a ton of time to find people. However, we ended the week with more than twenty lessons and it was really motivating. I hope that I can keep this pattern through my mission!

that's all I guess :)

Love,

Elder Marshall Underwood