Up Next: Huckleberry Plum Bob and transfers/ the next episode

As you may have guessed from the title, I had Huckleberry pie, I ate almost ripe plums, the guy who gave us both is named Bob and I'm going to Moscow, Idaho. 

It seems a little confusing doesn't it? We were sure confused when we first met Bob. 

We were walking in an old military housing area looking for an old potential on our list, and this guy walks up to us calls us brothers and asked if we needed a drink of water. It turns out this was the man that we were looking for. We immediately got a nice cold glass of water, after a little bit of small talk he asked if we wanted some Plums, then without our answer he started off towards his neighbor's Plum tree. 

After eating a few unripe plums we told him we had never had plums before, so he yelled at his son to jump his other neighbors fence and get a few different types of plums from there. We then ate some of the most bitter crab apples I have ever tasted in my life. He invited us back into his home for some Huckleberry pie (now keep in mind we have no idea who this guy is) during all of this commotion we are introducing ourselves and trying to find out if he is a member or if he has an interest in what we teach. He apparently didn't care for our message saying, "We only have room for one book in this house." He did, however, say that if we ever needed a place to rest for a second we were welcome anytime. And that is the story of Huckleberry Plum Bob. 

I went on exchanges with Elder Rusick to downtown Spokane. This was a crazy adventure for the both of us. We walked a ton, and we're unable to find any new people to teach. We encountered a crazy lady. We knocked on her door and she invited us in. After we had talked for a bit, we found that she believed in prophets, and that there has to be some still around today. Then we got excited to talk about the prophet Russell M. Nelson, but before we could tell her about it she started talking about another bloke, and said that he was a prophet..... Some bloke "who foretold of Trump becoming president", the 9/11 incident as well as a few other super general things. 

She eventually started praying for us and a few moments into the prayer she breaks the prayer to ask for our names, then she starts praying for us specifically, and a few moments after that she asked us if she can pray for our mates... (I have never in my life been asked a question like that before) we said go right ahead, then she starts saying "Lord, please bless these young men, that they may find Godly mates. Please hide the indecency of the women on TV and other places, how is a man supposed to keep his covenants with the way they dress nowadays. Lord, please hide them in the shadow of your wings, quote from Psalms 67". I must say that I was flattered with what she had done thus far, but she takes it further, she starts singing for us.... for at least two minutes. 

Once she was done singing we thanked her for the song and left her a pamphlet that talked about what we tried to go over. 

So sorry I was unable to send this email last week, I had more to talk about but not enough time to say it. 

Anyways, I am now in Moscow, Idaho covering the Palouse River and Paradise Ridge Ward's and my new companion is Elder Martineau. So far we have been unable to do much because we mostly walk. We are in a car share with another companionship but they cover all of Moscow where as we only cover southern Moscow. 

Cool thing that happened.

At church last Sunday some random guy just walked in and said that he would like to learn more about the Church. So we we sat with him all throughout the two hours, telling him about some of different things we do in church and he genuinely enjoyed his visit. However after we told him about the YSA ward (that's Young Singles Adult ward) because he is a college student, but the idea of that seemed to upset him in some way. He told us that he will think about coming back, so we hope we will see him again.