I Wanna Dance Party

I wanna dance party:

We were out contacting in the only nice neighborhood in East side and Elder Gurr and I called out to these Africans eating oranges out on the porch, the wife went inside but the husband talked to us and invited us in.

He was super cool and wanted to hear whatever we had to say. After getting rid of a few initial distractions we started teaching the Restoration. There was a language barrier for sure because the guy preferred either Kisii or Kiswahili and my Kiswahili had diminished from being able to kind of say a few phrases to picking up a few words here and there. We taught anyway though but right after we finished talking about the role of a prophet he cut us off and started talking about African dance ministry and how much he likes it. Then without time for objections started playing some on his TV, with the IPhone 3Gs camera quality and dancing and all. Elder Gurr wasnt used to African culture and was stupified. The guy then fed us oranges per hospitality custom and realizing this guy wasn't going to let us talk and not wanting to offend him I followed the custom of singing with him, eatingand drinking what he gives me (I lost some points from his book because I refused to drink tea) and then finally I danced to the music, per custom. I'd never danced to African music before but I could tell he really appreciated it. We danced for a few minutes with him and then we made our way to the door and he turned off the music and said we could come back and continue teaching him later  in the week. Then his wife turned on what must've been a real head banger to them because he grabbed my arm and tried to shut the door and said "Stay dance with us." I politely but firmly walked out the door though. It was crazy but also fun to have a blast to the past from my Africa days.

We also had a baptism this week too! It was really cool because it was the cousin of someone we baptized a few weeks ago. She lives with her aunt who is a member but her mother who was a Bible thumping Baptist was originally very against it but she came to the baptism and I think she felt the Spirit because she consented to the Baptism and was very nice to us afterwards.

The Church is true!

Love y'all,

Elder Murdoch 

1: my companion taking a picture of a mediocre sunset in our truck bed in a Popeye's parking lot

2:post baptism the bearded man is the member that baptized her