The Low Speed Chase

This week I ate chicken feet. I ate the whole thing, without puking! I'm proud of myself. And I'm happy to say, that those chickens did have large talons.

So in finding, I feel like we either find amazing people.....or crazy people. Let's start with the crazies :)

One night we're doing a little bit of finding before heading in, and we walk past an old lady. We ask her how her day was, and she says "samfu", full of suffering. We try to talk with her a little bit and she says she hasn't eaten or drunk all day. We realize she's having problems walking so we help her over to a park bench. She's hot, and can't breathe, and says she wants to die. We pull out our pamphlets and start fanning her which helps. We stay with her for maybe 45 minutes. Just trying to take care of her. She can barely walk 3 steps, let alone to her home. We tell her we'll pay for her to have a taxi (technically against the rules, but I think if we didn't she would have died. Not exaggerating). After forever and a day we get her into a taxi, and say we'll call her tomorrow. She doesn't want us to come to her house because it's so messy. We say "Don't worry about it! If you want, we can help you clean! Or we can just meet at a McDonalds or something"

Fast forward to the next day. We arrange to meet her at the mall. Then she picks out a restaurant we've never been to and walks in. We follow, but when we get the menu it's really expensive. We start to worry. We figure we'll just get the cheapest thing and share it. Angelica (that's her name) talks only in a whisper, so I don't even hear her let alone understand what she says. Eventually though I figure out that she thought we would buy her food. We apologize to the waiter and walk out with Angelica.  WE try to explain that we can't buy her money and she starts getting mad. We try to talk with her for maybe 25 minutes before they Spirit tells us to just walk away.

So we do.

And she yells after us.

And then starts following us!

I mean, she's almost 70, but I'm still terrified out of my mind

We walk for maybe 3 blocks and think about going into KFC for lunch. We decide against it and turn around to head for McDonalds. And she's there!! 

I start booking it. Again, she's a 70 year old woman. She can't do anything. But I'm the biggest worry wart in the world. Sister Kessen yells after me "Well don't run!" So I slow down.

We walked to our next appointment instead of waiting at the nearby bus stop.

I'M SAFE AND FINE MOM!!

But I also have an "In case of crazy lady" plan along with my "in case of zombies plan"

So, I either find crazy people who chase us Or I find the most stellar people

Enter, A-Bee

We were walking down a street and we stopped him.

Gosh dang it I run out of time every week

Okay, long story short, he asked if he could come to church with us and meet with us again to learn more. He'll be amazing!!

Hopefully will write more about him later :)

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Editors Note:  These pictures are not associated with the email that Joanna sent, but she asked that they be included on the blog.

 The Samuel L Jackson of Buddhas

 Hey look! I found Dad!!

 The selfie stick Buddha

 Apparently this is a thing

 I took an EFY picture by accident

 Selfies on a  regular camera are hard. Group Selfies are even more fun :)

 My desk :) I'm slowly making a post it collage of my favorite things

 I know what an Area book is. But is it normal to have an area book, LA, RC, Members, Formers, and Potentials in different binders? We're going to talk with ALL OF THEM!

 One of our investigators is Siu Pohpo (Granny Sue). She is 68 and has an acre large farm that she takes care of by herself.  She's AMAZING!  She put one of these tipis over every one of her gourds. The rains hits the knot instead of the gourd, so the gourds don't get bruised. She put them over all of her farm at 3 in the morning one day because it was raining so hard. But she's so nonchalant about it. She won't tell you all the crazy stuff she does, you have to ask her.

This is Joanna with her Mission President and his wife.