It's been raining so much lately I busted my umbrella--so I was stuck with this polka dot one that a member loaned us. Elder Cook forgot his umbrella so I let him have the umbrella because I have that awesome trench coat. But even THAT got soaked it was raining so much. Anyway, we knocked on this door and the house didn't have a porch so we were getting rained on. The lady opens the door and she feels terrible because we were soaking wet so she lets us in. We were able to dry off and give her a soggy copy of the Book of Mormon. (Ha! Ha!) She seemed really interested, but we'll see.
We recently went and checked out a media referral. It seemed a little shady at first because it was at a Motel room, and the room was on the backside of the Inn away from the traffic and public eye. I was thinking "this could be very, very, very bad." But we knocked on the door and Robert answered the door. He is in his 50's or so and he was here in Seattle out of a job and had nowhere to turn so his doctor referred him to the church. What is interesting is that he was living in Alaska and he was married and had three kids and an awesome job. One night he had a drink of alcohol and he came home late at night and got in a fight with his wife. The neighbors called the police and Alaska law states that if cops are called someone goes to jail--end of story. So Robert was taken to jail because he had alcohol on his breath. Because he was taken to jail, he violated his job contract and was fired. Also, to make it worse, because he was living on company property and they pretty much deported him from the state and sent him to Seattle on his own money.
So after all that, we set up appointments to teach him and he's pretty much the most humble man I've ever met. Ever since his fight with his wife, he's been sober. It's been a really cool experience to see him make such an awesome turn around in his life. So he's getting baptized April 17th. That will be my first official baptism.