This email is coming from the good old downtown Cleveland! Decided to change things up a little bit with preparation day, so instead of emailing at the church and playing basketball after, we are bumming downtown and using the library down here. Also because nobody was going to be at the church today to play basketball, it made sense. Going to spend most of the day around here, so it will be a good day today. Better than other big cities like Nashville...
So we had a wild goose chase this last week. The only thing is, we weren't trying to find anyone or chasing anyone down. And it's not really "we", it's more just me. We were biking to the church so we could have our ever wonderful district meeting, and when you aren't thinking about it, you don't remember about geese on the side of the road. So there I was, biking over the freeway overpass, and I realized that I was on the same side of the road as my good friend Gary the Goose, but at that point, it was too late to cross the road unless I wanted to get nailed by some cars. I was on the lookout for him as I was going down the sidewalk, and couldn't see him anywhere. I saw the other goose sitting in the nest like it normally is, and I was going downhill, so I thought I was going to be okay. Oh boy was I wrong. As I got a little bit closer, I saw him. The one and only Gary the Goose. He saw me and stared right into my soul, and then started booking it towards me. If there were Olympics for Geese, he would run away with the gold in the 100 meter dash. He had his 10 meter dash down in about 3 seconds flat. I have never seen a goose run, let along sprint that fast. He might have had a heart attack and died after that, I'm not really sure. We haven't gone past him since then. And the sad part is, as he got close with his mouth wide open ready to attack, I was a little scared for my life. I started to pedal as fast as I could so I didn't have a goose latched onto my leg as I was biking, or so there wasn't dead goose on the sidewalk. Either one would have been bad.
There was an amazing sunset last night, but we didn't have our cameras so we couldn't take a picture of it. Sad day.
We did some service yesterday and also helped a member dye their hair. That was an interesting experience. Start loading up my calendar now, pretty much a professional already. I saw how it was done, so send everyone to me ;)
We met with this guy that I told you about last week that meets with Jehovah's Witnesses. It was an interesting lesson with him. He said he is agnostic but also was raised believing in polytheism because he was born in Alaska and had a lot of Native American influences growing up. He told us he would pray to see if God is real, so that's some progress in this area! They almost came over at the same time that we were there, and this guy, Alex, kind of wants it to happen. He said it would be a religion pow-wow and he would record it. Don't know if it will ever happen though.
Other than him, we are just knocking on doors having a blast all day every day! And the weather is nice so it makes it even better! A couple of days in the 60's and 70's, so things are looking good for the summer!
Love,
Elder Woodward
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