Going to the church and she's gonna get baptized 5-20-2024

 If you remember our friend Mariah who I talked about last week, well she is locked in for baptism this coming Saturday. She came to church yesterday which reinforced everything that we have planned with her. She is incredible! In her journey to this point her mom's side of the family has all walked out of her life and blocked her on every form of communication. Her in-laws are Satanist and do not support her son attending church with her but they don't mind too much that she comes with us. 34 of her home dawgs as she calls them got federally arrested for cock fighting, grand theft auto, money laundering, etc etc. Her son may have cancer and needs a blood marrow transplant and the only donor who is a match is her brother who is in federal prison with a bond of $700,000 because he is a big time criminal but I did meet him a few weeks ago and he's really chill. He came out of the house shirtless with a big fat bowie knife on his hip and said what up brother. To make a long story short Mariah's life is actually the plot to a movie that probably wouldn't be appropriate to watch but she's changing it all to follow God and Jesus Christ by being baptized.


On our way to a lesson we drove past a house with ambulances and cop cars so someone else overdosed on the blue pill. Someone explained to us how they smoke fentanyl and it's so ghetto.

At the beginning of the week I actually started feeling sick and then boom I was down for 2 to 3 days in the apartment with a fever, persistent bowel movements and throwing up. I have no clue what caused it but we were able to do a little bit of work on our phones but then the zone leaders blitzed our area at the end of the week and we were able to find some good friends and pick up the slack in the area.

Last Monday we did a little nature walk in at arboretum and saw a lot of rock chucks and even a porcupine in a tree! 



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