Playing some ball

Howdy,

This week for me was an interesting and hot one!! So Tuesday was transfers. Elder Conger and I will be staying together for at least 6 more weeks. But luckily, I was able to still go up to transfer point and see all of my friends that were getting ready to go home.

Then later that day, since there were so many missionaries leaving, they had 2 of them come work with us before they headed home. So I took one of them, and we had a fun last day. I think we did it all. We tracted, had Sonic and played some hood ball with some little black kids. They thought we were sucky white boys, so me and the other elder beat them 24-0. We taught them the lesson of humility and that white boys can ball.

Then later that week, as we were tracting, Elder Conger and I, came across some guys playing one on one. I challenged them to a game and said that the loser had to say the prayer. So we started playing and to make a long story short we lost... 29-25. I had 24 of our 25 points. It felt like I was playing 1 on 2. but it was all good. We said a prayer, then left.

Then on Thursday we went and did some service at the Mississippi Food Network. I love it there, but it is kind of scary still, because the female inmates have box cutters. But they are cool and we get along with them great.

Then on Saturday, we were getting low on our miles for our car so we decided that we should walk. It wasn't that smart of us because apparently there was a heat advisory, and it was super hot! And we forgot to bring some water. Luckily after we found a new investigator we were called over by this lady. She was a friend of some members and apparently had been to church a few times a while back. She gave us two water bottles and then also a paper towel to wipe the sweat off of us. It was really nice.

We then started walking towards a new area to try and find a few people and another guy pulled up next to us and offered to give us a ride. We were right there so we declined it, but we gave him our number and he wants to take us to dinner soon. So I am looking forward to that.

Then once we finished it all, we were heading home when a member saw us and gave us a ride and bought us a drink! It was really nice that he did that. The members down here are so great to us!

After that we changed out of our soaking wet clothes and went to a members for a wedding reception, and being courteous we took them a gift. So we wrapped up a hard cover Book of Mormon and gave it to them because the girl this member married isn't a member. Hopefully she'll read it, but sadly her family is against Mormons. We were leaving and her brother that is like nine years old tried to dis us by saying, "Go back to school where you belong" which makes no sense. But he was lucky that I was a missionary or he would have been sad with the dis I would've hit him back with. Anyways, I hope y'all have a good week.

Love Elder Corbett