What to say if...

6/2/08
so, here in california, which is where i am, is where i am. yesterday we knocked a few doors in the rich corner of our area. we knocked for about 3ish hours and taught 2 lessons. there are so many rich people in the rich hoods, and they all claim to be a certain religion, but only one of the ones we talked to actually practiced it. the other ones just said that so we would leave them alone. people are dumb sometimes, as in when we say what church were from and were going to teach them, they reply with, sorry, im jewish or im presbyterian or whatever, as if it exludes them from our message. duh people, if you were already part of our cult we wouldnt teach you. im been thinking of some rebuttles for those, and i have come up with a few:

1)"im sorry, im lutheran"
a) really? ive never baptized a lutheran before

2)"im jewish"
a)jesus will still forgive you

3)"im catholic"
a)me too, lets go pray to joseph smith

to a less active:
4)"i used to be part of your church, i didnt like it"
a)thats why we have the telestial kingdom

5)"theres no proselyting here"
a)thats good or super!

there was one time after we had been told that from like 5 people in 2 minutes i told elder fennel to just ignore them the next time (we take turns messing with them) so when this guy walked out of his house to tell us this we just kept walking. we followed us still telling it to our backs until he was like hey! you guys! we stopped and turned around and he was mad that we ignored him so i said "were sorry, we didnt hear you, we were just minding our own business." hah! it was so funny, he just got mad and stormed back to his house to call the manager or something. times like these make tracting fun.
a lot of people will see us coming and try to shoo us from a distance, but it got annoying so i started waving back as if i didnt know what they were doing. there are a lot of people who just shout, "im not interested" and these people are fun to mess with. just ask them what theyre not interested in and theyll reply with "you" or "whatever you have" and keep playing dumb until they get mad and slam the door. there are a lot of white people who are really nosy (surprise!) when they see you walking theyll stop and say theres no soliciting or things that they try to imply were soliciting. since were not soliciting, were proselyting(?) i always give them dumb answers, as if i dont understand theyre trying to tell us to leave until they finally just come out and say it "get out of here, we dont like you".

weve been offered jobs a few times while were walking around. one guy drove up and after finding out we knock doors for 2 years while paying for it he said we could do it and make 5g a month selling house repair contracts. another guy from nigeria said that he would send us to africa to sell clothes that he sends there and would pay everything and then give us more for wages. that one was tempting. he buys overstocked clothes and shoes and purses and stuff and sends them to his shop in africa and sells them for a little cheaper than here, apparantly he gets some decent money. he said its about 2k for someone to fly there and live for a year, and he would pay us to do it. i hope the offer is still open in 2 years, that would be cool. most people are really grouchy and lame, but the few people you talk to are pretty cool most of the time. lots of different stories here, somewhat unlike K-Town (kamas).

eileen and jenna lizarraga are being baptized on the 8th :) we had a couple more baptism dates but had to drop them. one lady turned out to be an alcoholic and when she tried to stop, she made it one whole day without a drink before she started again. we found out she drank after we had set the date, but we found out and canceled it. weve been trying to help here for like 2 weeks now but she doesnt want to try very hard to stop drinking. another guy (enos) moved, and we dont know where to. he was such a golden investigator. he was the guy from honduras that did everything we challenged him to, then he moved but hasnt called us from his new apartment. we dont have many set appointments to teach people, like 3-4 a week, so its really lame, we have to fill up a lot of time tracting becuase we have visited everyone in our area book, all the less actives, everybody. we dont get any member referrals, so its difficult to find people that are willing to listen. ok, out of stuff to say, bye
Elder Anderson