I tried and tried to tell Harry how important it was to learn piano. And he took lessons from some really good teachers. But he had his own ideas and guess who's wishing he'd stuck with it?
I'm also learning to play some things on the piano since my mission, and Elder Gonzalez is teaching me pretty things :3 and i can play a few hymns as well. Oh how i wish i would have listened to you about piano when i was younger!!! I'm sorry mom!!! But i guess i'm more sorry to myself xD I'm gonna FORCE my kids to play an instrument when they grow up ;D
Harry wanted to play drums...and guitar...
As for the funny story, oh have i got a good one this week.... so we were knocking on some doors ten minutes before an appointment, and we did so for about eight minutes and we were about to walk down the street to the appointment, when the spirit whispers to me... "one more door." and i totally ignore it, saying oh man, i wanna sit down, but the prompting persisted so i turn around and walk back to the next door, and my companion spins around to follow me... we knock on the door.... and a dog starts barking. not usually a sign of an interested investigator, just from experience ;) but we wait for someone to answer, and a little girl comes to the door! then from between her legs emerges a huskie-german shepherd mix looking dog, and it RUNS up to us!!!!! THEN!!!!!! It commences to mark Elder Gonzalez as it's territory... he got peed on!!!! XDD Then it ran back inside having finished it's job! the little girl apologized and closed the door, I was in stitches!! And Elder Gonzalez' best suit was a bit wet... This is my testimony that God has a sense of humor!! ;)
In England (well, actually Europe) baptisms are hard to come by, so here's hoping this one happens.
Elder Gonzalez was contacting some potential investigators from several years ago who were never contacted and set up an appointment with Phillip, we didn't really know anything else about him at the time. So the time for the appointment comes and we walk to his house, his wife answers and ushers us in, how nice! Then we go into the living room and meet Phillip! He's from Ghana so he speaks Chwii (i think that's how you spell it? Probably not, but you say Etesay to say hello, which he thought was awesome that i could do that) and we had a nice little chit chat to begin. Turns out he met missionaries ages ago in London but then fell out of touch! We had an absolutely amazing first lesson with him and he fell in love with the Book Of Mormon, he understands the passages that he reads better than most members I know! During our second lesson we invited him to be baptized on April 27, and he said.... oh. well, what time? and inside we just jump up and down for joy!!! xD so with a tentative time of 4 o'clock on April 27, Phillip from Ghana will be baptized!
Perhaps he has difficult days, but he never mentions them to us. He continues to tell us what a wonderful time he's having. He's happy and feels blessed to be on a mission. I guess maybe its true that doing what The Lord wants us to do will make us happy.
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