We had some crazy stuff happen this week! The most memorable thing that happened was when we went out to Towaoc on the Ute reservation.
Towaoc is part of the area that we cover. It's very much just like the Navajo reservation. There seems to be a lot more scary dogs here than anywhere I've served, too.
We went to Towaoc on Sunday, and we parked at the rec center. When we started walking towards the part of our area that we intended to visit, a kid on a skateboard stopped us and asked us "what are you doing?" We told him we were doing missionary work. He was like "what's that?" And we told him about how we go visiting people and talking to them about Jesus Christ. We gave him a restoration pamphlet and we went on our way. As we were walking, though, this kid (he's 11 years old) stopped us again and asked us if he could walk with us. We told him he could, and we walked and talked with him while visiting a couple of people. Eventually, when we were out of people to see, he said he would like to go and see some of his relatives, so we followed him around for a bit visiting people. The whole time he was handing out our pamphlets and introducing us to all kinds of people all throughout the neighborhood (His name is Jovan, by the way)! Eventually we met another kid named Jarom. Jovan invited him to follow us and maybe go to the skate park afterwards, so we got another kid (9 years old) to walk and talk with. We found out that Jarom's parents were picked up by the cops and he has been staying with friends for a while. He was taking care of a house by himself, it was sad. Jarom and Jovan brought us around to meet a few more people, and one of the people that we met considered himself a member of the church but hasn't been baptized! We made a note to visit him again next time we came. Jarom and Jovan went to another house, picked up a kid who wanted to go skating with them named Devin (Dev is his nickname) and we walked with them all the way back to Jovan's house. We parted ways there and we gave them all copies of the Book of Mormon. This all lasted for about 3 hours. Next time we plan on going with him again and meeting more of his relatives in the neighborhood!
Gotta go! Thanks for reading my crazy story, haha.
Adios,
-Elder Dittmer
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