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WEEK 7: Crossville, TN

 This week was a little rough numbers wise, but I still enjoyed it! 

To start, I deep cleaned the bathroom cuz i had some extra time, and little did I know that I have literally been showering in mold... i thought the rubber tips of the shower head were black.. nope. They are supposed to be gray. I'll attach the before and after picture cuz my comp and I were in shock. It was soooo gross!

We visited a lot of people this week, and I can't tell you how many times I've been teased because I take off my shoes in people's houses. In Tennessee, if you take off your shoes, it's like you own the place. We visited a 95 year old lady in a trailer home, and it was a very clean tidy trailer home. So I took off my shoes. When I sat down, this old old lady looked at my socks and started laughing and said "why'd ya take off your shoes darlin?? Ain't no one do that here, where you from?"😂 mom, you've trained me wrong haha. At the Doneys (members who feed us every week) they always tease me as the greenie that takes off her shoes😂 so I'm trying to untrain myself to keep my shoes on when I go into people's houses haha. 

Oh this was a little sketchy. The other night, there was a loudish sound during the night that woke up my companion. She said that she could hear 2 male voices outside the apartment. She wasn't sure what woke her up, but she was to afraid to go check it out. So in the morning when she went out into the living room area, the front door was OPEN. the apartment was pretty chilly, meaning the door had been open for a while. Our door has the ghetto blinds that swing very loudly when the door opens and closes, so my guess what someone opened the door, it was really loud, and it woke up my companion. Then whoever it was didn't want to close the door cuz it would be just as loud, so they just left the door open/unlatched. We searched everything and we didn't see that anything was stolen, and we wondered how. My wallet was on my desk, but it was still there. We are convinced that it was the Jesus mural wall that changed the person's mind cuz it's the first thing you see when you walk into the apartment haha. We have been sure to triple check that the door is locked since then. 

But we are safe and it is all good:) 

I extended my very first baptismal invitation this week to Antoinette, and it went well. I spoke confidently yet lovingly, but she was still confused about being baptized a second time, so we are meeting with her tomorrow to talk more about it. Dustin, the 19yr old that was going to be baptized next month, has gone downhill fast. He has been coming to church with us every week, but this week was rough. He has started heavily smoking, and he's always on so many drugs that he can't ever remember what we taught him. He got really angry at me at church (I didn't do anything, he was just so fogged by the drugs that he couldn't function) and he raged and kinda cornered me which was actually kinda scary cuz he's a big boy. So we are very sad about him cuz we thought he was ready for baptism, but clearly he's not. So we have to remove him from date and help him to straighten out his actions before we can teach the gospel. He also said to the elders that he doesn't remember anything that we have taught him... this was really disappointing cuz he's been being taught for months. So we are still trying to figure out what to do. 

Sunday night we called like 9 people, and 7 of the numbers had us blocked, so that was neat haha. 

But that was the majority of the week, and hopefully next week improves! 



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