Joe Mama (Hudson's Podcast Week 57)

 Wednesday:  Recorded Supreme Mac rap song.  Went to a return/thrift store called Dirt Cheap that had signs posted in Arabic.  Member food of pasta gave lots of indigestion/heartburn.

Thursday:  Went to visit Sharon in Laverne, TN who rides her bike to work at the Nissan plant.  Living at landlords house as she got evicted.  While driving there, they see an older women walking a bike down the freeway and assume it is Sharon.  Missionaries are not allowed to give people rides so they don't stop.  Speak with the landlords who are Baptist and not interested.  They think Sharon will be home in 1 hour.  While they wait, they go to visit Norr, a previous contact from 3 weeks ago.  He is not home, but they talk to his son and get contact information for the son.  While driving back to Sharon's the missionaries stop to talk to a black man standing in his driveway.  His name is Antwon Lias.  He tells them he is an original Israelite.  He only worships on Saturday?  They give him a Book of Mormon.  He jokes how people try to get away from the missionaries, but right now the missionaries are trying to get away from him.  He did not want to call them Elders but called them brothers and was smoking a doobie the whole time.  When Hudson calls him on Sunday he does not answer the call.  They get to Sharon's and she is obviously out of breath from her long bike ride, but she wants to talk on the porch.  She tells the missionaries how picked on she is since she does not get along with her family.  She asks the Elders if they have physically seen God, because she has.  One time He was next to her fireplace and talking to her.  Her mother could not seen him.  Another time she was praying and a knife tried to stab her, but God stopped it.  Again, her mother could not see it.  She saw God over Hudson's shoulder while they were talking.  Hudson felt like he was on the birdbox movie when the man on the river tries to get the family to look at the supernatural being.  God tells her things are going to be alright and work out.  She didn't want to read the Book of Mormon as she was going inside to have her 20 minutes alone with God. She needs that everyday.  Car contact on the way home only spoke Japanese.

Friday:  Cold call turned them down instantly.  He thought they were from the religion that has 25 wives.  He said he would be interested if they did practice polygamy.  When asked if he knew anyone that would be interested in the message he gave them the number 615-867-5309 and sang the last 4 digits.  Hudson had some respect for him after that.  Another call was some kids that had them repeat the Lord's prayer.  Another kid told them his parents were dead, when Hudson called him out on it he hung up and then texted them back 4 times.

Saturday:  Visit with Pascal at 11:00.  He was sleeping.  Came back at 3:00 and Pascal had left with his friend.  Had a lesson with some of the younger household members.  Went to pick up dinner and the whole quad got a buzz with a size 4 guard, as that is as short as mission standards allow.

Sunday:  Quad is praying for a miracle that someone will attend church with them.  Sylvia shows up half way through sacrament meeting.  She is talking with the other missionaries in the apartment.  A black man and a young girl walk in as well.  Hudson does not recognize them.  Turns out it was Norr who they had texted a church address to three weeks previously.  He texted the Elders and asked where they were.  Turns out they were sitting three rows apart the whole time and Hudson did not even talk to him.  Whoops!

Monday:  Elder Peterson's dad and brother came to town for the Titan's game and they went to eat at Cracker Barrel.  Elder Johnson had some rough cold calls.  One was a lady that claims she loves studying new religions, but refused to consider learning about the church.  Another lady told him to go hang himself.  When he called her back she told him to get away demon.  Another man liked the scripture they shared, but once they mentioned the Book of Mormon he was not interested.

Tuesday:  District council training with the senior couples.  Housing coordinator discussed mold.  West Fork sisters had baptism at their building.  The Elders decided to go.  A ton of people showed up.  Sister Brown asked Hudson to play some prelude music.  He was still on the piano when the brother started conducting.  Suddenly Hudson is asked to play I Am a Child of God on 301.  He finds an orange cover hymnbook that has been defaced.  He can't read through all of the markings and gets paranoid in front of the large gathering.  Didn't play a lot of the bottom hand.  They go to the font.  He Asks Sister Brown is he needs to play another song and she tells him no.  After the baptism is over Sister Brown waves his attention and starts making air piano gestures.  He went and play some postlude from the Children's Hymnbook.