Right now you may be thinking that the title to my Email this week is a little interesting... well it is interesting and it is interesting for a reason. On your mission you meet some pretty interesting people, especially in Hereford. Imagine going around an entire city and talking to every single person you see! Your bound to meet someone weird right! Ya, well, me and Elder Jenkins have had some very interesting experiences.
This week Elder Jenkins and I , prayerfully identified a street to tract called Hampton. Hampton is on the edge of something the Locals call THE DARK SIDE! It gets that name because it is a bit Dodgey; there's a lot of shady characters in the Area! It is where all the stabbings happen and such. Well on this particular occasion me and Elder Jenkins are knocking the doors of Hampton when we soon notice there are a lot of weird people that live on this street! The first door we knock on was a little creepy and the man who answered was even creepier! He was probably 50 and he had long, long dark greasy slimmy hair! in his left ear he had a gold earing. He had a grey beard that was as greasy as his hair and his teeth looked like they had been rotting for years! i could of sworn i saw a wooden leg, just kidding! No but this guy seriously looked like a Pirate! and yes he even had a raspy pirate voice! Next to him he had a short dog that looked like it had been beaten! as soon as he opened the door the dog ran out. when the pirate saw us he shouted no and then slammed the door in our face! He didnt let his dog back in his house though, so the dog just waited by the door while me and Elder Jenkins continued to knock on the other doors on the street.
Me and Elder Jenkins continued to see some weird people on the street we met a man who kept winking at us! We asked if he was interested in our mesageand he would say " no i'm not interested in your message" and then he would add a couple winks after that! it was super awkward the whole time i didnt know if he was hitting on us or if he was just kidding and he was really interested in the mesage! then we met a lady who liked to yell! i dont mean she yelled cause she was mad at us,she was actually very nice and polite. she just had an incredibly loud voice! we were like standing right next to her and she litterally screamed "NO THANK YOU I'M NOT INTERESTED! YOU ENJOY THE SUNSHINE!". Then we met an old man who was dual weilding canes ( that means he had two canes; one in each hand). and he was moving slower than a snail. He was very nice though. then we knocked on a crazy lady's home! she was talking about all sorts of crazy things with us and then the lady that takes care of her came out and said to leave Haha!
After all this happened me and Elder Jenkins went to go unlock our bikes when something happened! The Pirate came out! he opened his door and just started screaming at us in his best pirate voice! he said some pretty bad words that i cant repeat Haha. The sad thing is that me and Elder Jenkins werent even offended because we were laughing too hard! BAsically he got super mad at us for knocking on people's doors and then he blamed us for losing his dog! he told us that we lost his dog and we got to go find him cause the dog is the only thing he loves! It could of been a pretty touching story if he didnt have the smell of cigarettes and beer in his voice and his dog didnt look like it was beaten to death. We did end up finding the dog though! except he wouldnt come near us cause he was so abused! I'm sure the dog found his way home though!
I guess i should explain some of the pictures! Sorry i wasnt able to get a picture of the pirate. One of the pictures shows mine and elder jenkins ice cream shake challege it wasnt too difficult. another is a picture of an ELDERly sign that we saw and we couldnt not get a picture in front of it! Since we are elders! although i do think it's weird that they have a sign to warn people that there are old people about! the other pictures are of me in front of my bike cause you have been wanting one so bad mom. oh and that is ELDER WEIHING that i carved into a candle. Candle Carving has become one of my new hobbies!
Missions are great! Its not always easy though! we do get yelled at a lot in the streets. Some of the kids like to call us "The God Squad" its a pretty cool nickname! Thanks for all the letters everyone! Remember all the Cool missionaries get post! so keep sending them.
Elder Weihing
oh p.s mark is getting baptized in april after his wedding and Maria and her daughter will hopefully be on a baptismal date at the end of this week!
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