The Blessings of Ball

Good Morning from Jackson Mississippi!!!

Well this week has flown by! We have been incredibly busy, so that's been super nice! On Monday after I got off we went and played basketball with our investigators, Silas, Chris and Darion. It was so funny. They were talking so much crap to us on how they were going to beat us... We took them up on the challenge. My companion is really good at basketball and we picked up a decent member and we whooped them. They were on the floor out of breath before the game was over. The funny thing is that after we played them they told us that they were never going to smoke again. It was funny because we thought they were just saying it, but one stopped cold turkey and the other has only smoked like 2 all of last week! So that was a blessing, but after we beat them everyone at the gym saw that 3 white boys beat some black guys. People started challenging us and started to cheat when we were beating them... haha it was funny.

Then on Tuesday we went and did exchanges with the assistants and that was a lot of fun. I went with Elder Ostergar. He took me out with a member and you wouldn't believe who it was. It was a kid from my football team from Logan who is living with his Aunt and Uncle! His name is Tyler Gabriel and it was so cool to see him and to talk with him. All of our appointments fell through but we got to talk with him and I loved it! We dropped him off and then went tracting and had a few good contacts and found a new investigator which was fun.

Then on Wednesday we went to a District meeting in Florence, and it went well. But after we had to drive to a town called Brookhaven which is forever away from Jackson, and give a baptism interview. It went really well! Elder Dugmore gave it and said she was the most prepared lady he has ever interviewed which was cool.

Then Thursday was finally our first full day back in our area, which was a killer but we still worked hard. We tried all of our investigators.

Then Friday was a lot of fun. We went to see a part member family but they weren't there so we went and saw a youth in the area. We got talking with him and asked about the neighborhood kids that balled. He told us that they were pretty good and we asked if he would come with us to challenge them. So we went down and asked if we could play and they blew us off and thought we were white kids who couldn't ball haha. The youth eventually got us on the court and it was the Mormons against 3 of them. To make this long story short, we balled the crap out of them! We beat them 24-16. hahaha It was funny because it was pretty much me and Elder Dugmore because the youth wasn't good and didn't really try... it was getting frustrating but hey we still won! It seemed like the whole neighborhood was watching us! After we got done everyone had to come up and shake our hands. We felt like we gained the whole neighborhood's respect. The best part was that we were back with the youth and he told us that we just played the 3 best ballers in the neighborhood. It was really cool.

Then on Sunday, we had a good day. Church went really well, and we even said no to a dinner appointment because Elder Dugmore and I knew that everyone was going to be home to watch the Superbowl, so instead of watching with a member we were going to take 20-30 minutes with people that would let us in and establish a relationship so that when we came back we can teach them! It was pretty cool we met some awesome people!

That's about it for me! I have been loving being a missionary! It's crazy how fast time flies by. But when you enjoy something, time flies by! I hope everyone is doing well:) I miss each and everyone of you!

Love Elder Corbett

1 Tyler and I

2&3 Silas, Chris, and Darion and us after playing ball