We met a crazy guy in the hood the other day. He told us that Jesus didn't fulfill the law of Moses, he only fulfilled the law of sacrifice, so he still practiced the law of Moses, but he said he didn't sacrifice any sheep. Weird thing was though, that he still considered himself Christian. He was black too, but he didn't consider himself black. He considered himself an etamite. Whatever that is...
Last Wednesday we had about 30 cop cars in our apartment complex and dozens lining the street. This was while I was on my exchange with Elder Anderson. It was about 10:15am or so and we were just about to leave the apartment, when we heard some sirens and screeching tires (pretty typical for Beaumont) we didn't think much of it, but then we heard more sirens and I looked out the window and saw that there was a car that had crashed into our complex with two officers behind it. Then the cops got out and they were fully geared up with their vests and ARs and what not. Then more cops showed up, and more cops, and more and more and more. Then about 4 K-9 units showed up followed by a bunch of cops. At the most there were about 50 cop cars all around our complex.
We found out later from our cop friend Todd Gillette that they were a band of bank robbers from Houston who had been in a high speed chase all the way over to Beaumont. They had just killed three people too. They ended up crashing into our complex and they broke into someone's apartment and were hiding in there. Pretty crazy stuff. I'm glad the Lord protects His missionaries.
I'll have to get some pics from elder Anderson to send next week.
We helped our ward mission leader repair his washing machine too. The bearing in it had almost completely worn out. The ball bearings were supposed to be about 1/2 inch thick, but there were some that were worn down to 1/4 inches thick, and some that were worn down to about 1/32 inches thick. We replaced them and it runs like new again.
We got a lot of service done this week too which was great.
Probably the best experience I had was going to the south east Texas Mardi Gras. We didn't actually go in, but there were miles and miles of parked cars. It was crazy. Lots of crazy drunk people too. It was fun to see though.
We found out later from our cop friend Todd Gillette that they were a band of bank robbers from Houston who had been in a high speed chase all the way over to Beaumont. They had just killed three people too. They ended up crashing into our complex and they broke into someone's apartment and were hiding in there. Pretty crazy stuff. I'm glad the Lord protects His missionaries.
I'll have to get some pics from elder Anderson to send next week.
We helped our ward mission leader repair his washing machine too. The bearing in it had almost completely worn out. The ball bearings were supposed to be about 1/2 inch thick, but there were some that were worn down to 1/4 inches thick, and some that were worn down to about 1/32 inches thick. We replaced them and it runs like new again.
We got a lot of service done this week too which was great.
Probably the best experience I had was going to the south east Texas Mardi Gras. We didn't actually go in, but there were miles and miles of parked cars. It was crazy. Lots of crazy drunk people too. It was fun to see though.
Thanks for all your prayers and support. It really helps!
Elder Jones
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