May 23, 2016

This week was really good! We had a great preparations ya we played basketball all morning and shopped and had a great lesson with one of our baptismal dates! She is hung up on some Jewish beliefs which is really weird but we are helping her through it. We also had a bunch of other great lessons and applying the training we received from elder kopishke, had some awesome lessons with a lot of less actives and recent converts! Thursday we had a lot of fun doing service at the audobon! I love service there! Friday we had district meeting and it was a good training I had elder frogget give! And we drove the zone leaders down there so we then came back and I went on an exchange with Elder frogget we came to Henderson and we talked to a lot of great people then we also had a few awesome lessons!

Saturday we reexchanged in madisonville and then we came back elder singleton and me and we helped a couple move to a new apartment that we are teaching and then we had probably the most interesting lesson of my mission! We contacted this lady outside and her husband heard us talking about Jesus so he came down as she went up and he started like questioning us! And interagating us but by the end he was excited to listen to our message but he said he was super mad that we had more figured out about religion that he did and he is 35 so he was super interested in us because we are 20 and know way more than him about religion and what's up! Then we went in and helped someone then a lady yelled from a window and was like where are y'all from so we told her what church we were with and she said hold on ill be right down and so the guy came back and was still asking loads of questions then the lady and her husband came down and so we had three different views and us going back and forth! So yeah!  They were arguing back and forth and wanted to know our side of our beliefs so we shared with them the restoration and all three of them were interested in learning more and set up a return appointments! But then we talked to some very interesting people this week too! So we go to contact this one lady as a referral form the Hermanas and there are 5 cop cars and 1 ambulance so we drove around tried a few others then came back! And talked to her mom and set up a time to come back and teach the family! Then talked to the people on the other side of the street and they said we were in the right place to be talking about Jesus because a dude right there just got done stabbing himself and so that's why where was 5 cops Nd and ambulance but there was a black guy there and he goes y'all will have a lot of crazy stories when y'all return home to Utah from this place! Because Henderson is the capital of sinners.

Then we contacted a guy that says no I'm not interested I'm a sinner, so we talked to his family right there and they were super drunk! And the one guy goes nope don't want none we do the Devils work! We work for the devil! We are sinners I'm an alcoholic! And I'm gonna stay that way I do the work of Satan! If I wasn't drunk right now I'd kick your butt right now! But there were a lot of swearing a in there! So it was interesting, then we turn around and talked to another guy right after that and he goes why are y'all going around doing this!?

You all may as well be trying to find the Easter bunny! Because jesus doesn't exist! So yeah it was interesting this week!

This week was a very interesting week! I'm excited to see what happens this next week! Love y'all and miss y'all! Keep going strong and reading your scriptures and praying daily!

Love elder Durfee

Elder Durfee. Kentucky Louisville mission