This week was.. AWESOME! I couldn't have asked for a better year mark! But to start the week off, tuesday we had DTM and it went aight. Wednesday we decided to grab a couple rakes and go tractin'! and it worked REALLY WELL! haha We contacted a referral and also got a new investigator out of it! Annnnnd did some service! Fun service at that!! I'll send a video and some mid work selfies for yall, it was awesome.
Cool stuff that happened before I blow this email up with a wall of text about my year mark. Last week, Thursday or Friday I can't remember, we went back to follow up with a guy named Cord. He told me the first time that he has been deer hunting quite a bit so to come later in the evening. Safe to say, we bonded immediately on the porch. Anyways, after a few weeks of try by's and no answers we finally went by the other night when we KNEW THEY WERE HOME! hah They left their windows open and they were all playing in the living room and we could hear em! So, we rang it and they all went silent! They slowly opened the door and were like.. "Oh it's just those church guys, we're good" Apparently there was a guy running around Dodgeville with a knife and they were just warned about it. ANYWAYS what I'm getting to is his wife Suzette came out and was SUPER interested! She was saying how she grew up Catholic but didn't think too much of it and how she's more like on the science side of it right now. But she asked if she could set up a time to meet with us. We were shocked... normally we say that haha it was weird but YEAH!! haha So we are going by tonight. We prayed hard that my cold would be gone by tonight but no progress. Also, slight side note, halfway through the conversation cord tapped me and showed me a pic of a buck his father-in-law shot haha We chatted a bit. Those moments are what missionaries live for. Building trust and relationships.
Moving on. That's not all though, when we tracted with leaves we knocked on a home day-care place and the mom (owner of the home) answered and let us rake her leaves. Well, when she was closed she came out and started talking to us and started asking a bunch of questions about us, about Mormons, and also said how she is super curious about other religions and she said we could come back and share a message. It was funny cause she was like "normally Jehovah Witnesses or other people just come, give you a pamphlet expect you to read it and then they ask if they can come back to explain it to you a week later." at that moment, we knew we did the right thing that day. There was no other way for us to contact her! Anyways, we made a big leaf pile for her daughter and played with her dog for a bit. We'll be going back there soon. Should be sweet.
Now.. for my year mark. This day was like the greatest day of my life haha We went to the Worthingtons to do some service. We got there at 11 and right off the bat I was BLOWN AWAY!!! So to explain the Worthingtons, he's a die hard hunter, loves the outdoors and owns a REALLY big construction company. He's an owner, so he's like.. a millionare. Anyways, the reason why this is relevant is cause he has a massive shed that is a Man Cave. Like.. he built it as a shed so nobody would see the inside but MAN IT'S SO NICE! He's sided the whole inside with old barn wood and has SO MANY ANIMALS! so insane. I'll send you guys a vid of it but it's all so amazing. Has a memory foam fold out bed in there, a 50" flat screen in the "Gun Room" which will soon have a Jail door from the early 1800's keeping it locked. So cool. Anyways, his bull scored 396. Idk you'll see the vid but I go in there and after a quick walk through of everything I helped him hang a cool header for his door way to his camo room and that was fun to do and also helped side it. Fun getting back into the carpentry. Then (you'll see in the video where there is plywood) we put old barn tin going up above the old barn wood siding. It's like a half and half. it's cool. In the video you'll only see plywood but we put old grey barn tin going up. It's cool. Anyways, he was talking to us and me and him were just talking a ton on what all could happen and he was saying how he wants to put a 70 inch flatscreen in there. (The next day when we went back, he told us his wife approved it!!) That way we can go there for conference. I'm hoping to skype there so I can show my fam!! Anyways, that was like half the day. It gets around 5, and he was like, dinner or do you guys want to go hunting first?? HUNTING! YO! I WENT HUNTING!!! CAN YOU BELEIVE IT???? SO COOL!! You can use crossbows in Wisconsin. So we went hunting and I saw the first deer. And in Wisconsin a deer tag is 12$ over the counter. Have to be 10 to hunt. Anyways so you can shoot 3 bucks (1 per season) and 3 doe's. So as we were hunting, we were up in the blind and he stood up and shouldered his bow but couldn't get a shot off. He was going to shoot a doe. I know it was just a doe but still.. would have been cool. You can buy a tag here for 12$ over the counter and you can get up to 6 total deer. They shoot does for the meat and you get one doe and a buck per season. I think that's how it works. Anyways, that was sweet! The next day we went back to help them out in the morning and we put up some more tin and that, it takes a long time to cut it all and stuff. But after, we had a huge bon-fire. And it was my year mark and I had to burn a shirt anyways so we did it for my ceremony. Let's just say brother Worthington went all out ahha 4 gallons of diesel fuel later, we had a fire! I'll send ya'll the vid! haha good day!
Anyways, crazy week, loved every minute of it, I'm excited to teach all the peeps here in Dodgeville!! Love you all, Have a Happy Day!
~Elder Weston Poulson
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