The last two years I've been Catholic, this year I'm Satanist... Come back next year and we'll see what happens.

Quote of the week explanation

Concord is far more low-key than Oakland. I'll just get that one out right away. I have not met a single crazy person (which, honestly, is somewhat disappointing), and even the interesting characters are far more chill about it. We were tracting and we ran into this guy who was standing at the door listening to us for a few minutes before he finally busted out the "I'm Satanist" card (He even showed us his tattoo to prove it). The weird thing was is that the whole conversation this guy felt completely normal, and even possibly receptive. He told us he wasn't interested at this point in time though. He's been Catholic for a few years, he told us, this year he's going to be Satanist, and who knows next year. A classic low-key interesting Concord character. 

This one will probably be a bit shorter.

In all honesty I would say not too much noteworthy stuff happened this week. We've been doing a lot of finding, as goes the work at times. Now that we've been here for a little while we are getting to know the area pretty well, and all of the members are getting to know us, so it's moving along pretty smoothly.

We had a good week in terms of visiting members and meeting new people. Nothing that all of you folks will probably be interested in, except for one. We visited one of our members and he told us the story of how he came to join the church. It was quite the history. I won't say much, but it involved seven years at a Catholic seminary, a west African civil war, and a whole lot of miracles.

Other than that, I don't know if I'll waste your time by making you read anything more. It's a short P-day today anyway, so we've got things to do. Hope you have a swell week!

-Ben

P.S. We might as well have watched the 49ers game yesterday for how well people were keeping us updated while we were tracting.

P.P.S. We heard the most found profane yelling match this week that I've heard since the churches chicken in Oakland.

P.P.S. For those of you who don't know, the Churches Chicken in Oakland is the place to go if you want to see to ladies yell at each other so violently that an employee has to come over and scream at them to be quiet or get out, and if you want random homeless people to come in and steal your food from right in front of you.