The Wild Chicken Chase

The Wild Chicken Chase:

We've been knocking so much this week trying to find the lost sheep but the problem is, no one wants to answer to doors for us which is alright but it came to a point where maybe 1 out of 20 people were answering and 15 out of 20 were definitely home. It was getting ridiculous and I was bored. It got even more ridiculous after a lady started following us knocking on doors holding a kitten. I thought she was trying to return it or something and after we finished the street the lady still had about 5 doors left and no-one answered for her either. She was a bit older and had problems walking and so I felt really bad that she had to walk door to door and on one was answering because they thought she was us. 

She came up to us after she had finished and told us it was hard following us. It turns out she wasn't holding a kitten but a chicken. She said it had just wandered into her house about 20 minutes ago and she didn't want her dog to eat it so she was trying to find which of her neighbors owned it. 

She then pointed at a house all the way up another very long road with no other houses on it and said that must be where the chickens owners lived. She was definitely playing the pity card and so we offered to take the chicken off her hands because that was where we were heading anyway.

She gladly dumped it on me and Elder Lancaster refused to touch it on the grounds that "chickens have too many textures" so we knocked on the door and naturally no one answered "We have your chicken!" I yelled a few times. Still no answer. It was probable that no one was home but if they were they were taking prejudice to the extreme. We tried to contact the neighbors but no one was answering they were probably frightened by the fact that their Saturday was being disturbed by 2 Jehovah's Witnesses holding a chicken, I would be too.

Realizing we needed to move on with our lives we decided to do the best we could and dumped the chicken over the fence. We originally thought we could throw it over but then I thought about what would happen if the chicken didn't try to fly. We weren't sure what to do so eventually we just held it over the fence and dropped it still uncertain if that was the owners house.

Well in other news, I'm getting transferred again. My time in Stephenville was short but it was so good. I do really truly love the opportunity I've had to serve here and am even more grateful for the opportunity I have now to serve the people of South Fort Worth (again).

Je vous aime,

Elder Murdoch