Monday, June 29, 2009

MY AMAZING STORY!

This Elder Shurtz, your son is too lazy to type out this amazing story and i dont blame him, he types slow haha. But yeah i hope you enjoy, it was a crazy day. P.s. Your son is so amazing and i am so blessed to have him as a companion, thankyou for raising such an amazing son, he already has blessed the lives of so many people.
K last Monday one of the craziest things in my life happened, it was one of the Worste days of my mission but at the same time one of the most blessed days on my mission. K this story is a really long one but i will try and make is shorter. So last Monday i got the email from you telling me you had put money in my account, Thank you so much for doing that by the way. Anyways, so after we had finished doing our emails we were going home and right by the train station i saw a ATM, and i decided i would take the money off and then we could go buy some souvenirs. So Elder Davis and I went and i took off at the beggining 1000 Grieven, which is just over 100 dollars. I grabbed the money out of the slot thingy, and turned around and this guy started talking to me. He seemed pretty nice and was well dressed and all he wanted was to exchange money with me. He had 20, 50 grieven bills, and i had 10, one hundred grieven bills. Now i hate 100 griven bills so i totally wanted to exchange one hundreds for fifties. So this guy starts counting out my money and he got to 950 and then gave me some small bills. a 20 and then some ones. well he handed me the money and i of course recounted it all and noticed that he had only given me 990 griven, so i still needed 10 more. well he took the money back counted it and then put ten more grieven in it and then he did something wierd. he folded the money in a v shape and then started counting it again, but the thing is, is i watched intentively and he counted me out 1000 Griven, and all was honkey Dorey. He gave me the Money and i gave him the 100's and then i went to count the money again, well when i started to count the money again him and his friend who was with him told me to put the money in my pocket cuz there were police and security around, and then pushed my hand down so i couldnt count it. Now i was pretty confused at the beggining so i pulled the money out again to count it and then again forced my hand down making it so i couldnt count the money and they were like, " Hey Dont pull the money out right now, there are Cops around and Security and if they see that we were exchaning money we could get in Trouble. Well then i heard the Holy Ghost Screaming at me tell me to count the money, so i pulled it out and by this time the one guy had already started walking away. Well i counted it and some how i only had 200 Grieven, Somhow they had slipped away 800 Grieven when they were handing me the money. Like i was amazed at how they did it cuz i watched thewhole time and I honestly thought it was all there. Well Now i was Very very mad, like i wanted to hurt a man, and his friend was still with us. So i pulled out my Knight stick and started beating him with it with all my might, broke alot of his bones. haha ok thats a lie, But we didnt let this fat guy outta our sights. He was with the main guy and he had given the main guy money to give to us cuz he didnt have enough to do 1000 Grieven. Well this guy was telling us to leave and run after the main guy who already left, but we of course stayed with him and i yelled at him alot and told him to give me my money back, and he was denying even knowing us or ever talking to us and was trying to get away. Well his wife was also involved, and she came over and grabbed her husband (fat man we will call him) and she was like he we have to go we are late. well we told her to back off and that there werent going anywhere cuz he owed me 800 Grieven which he stole. well She freaked out on us and told us they didnt know us and that we were liars, and it became pretty difficult, and things didnt look good for me. well I told Elder Davis to stay with fat man and wife and i ran to get the police. I grabbed the cops and when i got back my comp was gone, we couldnt find him, like i didnt have any idea where he had gone. well he had just stuck with this guy and they had ran and jumped on a train thing that goes around the city, a tram. well my comp got on the tram with them and held the doors open so the tram wouldnt go anywhere. well the tram started moving anwyays and this lady ended up pulling him off the tram cuz she worked for it or sometihng. So basically fat man and wife where on the tram getting away. well i saw elder Davis and he told me all this and we didnt know what to do now. The cops didnt have a cop car so we couldnt head them off. and we wouldnt make it if we ran to the next tram stop. well The cops were standing by a taxi driver the whole time and i think they are good friends so i told them that i would pay for the taxi if we could hop in it and head off the tram and catch the people at the next stop. Well thats what we did, the cops agreed and so we chased them down haha. We got to the stop and the tram had already arrived and left again, but whilst driving by we saw the Fat man and wife and told the cops. we stopped and the cops got out and went up to them, and then they told me to go ever to them and we explained our situation. Well the fat man and wife Got really angry and of course denied everything. Well good thing i had Elder Davis as a witness, his wife wasnt one cuz she wasnt by us the whole time. Well then these people saw our tags and for the next like hour they mocked us and told us that we were children of satan and devil worshipers, and basically anything you could think. Like Honestly, anything you can think of the called us it. It was forsure hands down the worste hour of my life. I just stood there and did nothing, we had our backs turned to them and they just moccked us. The only thing i said was my testimony. Well the fat man during all of this came up to us and tried to bribe me, tell me he would give me 600 Grieven for my troubles and then we could all go home and not have to deal with the police. well of course i said No and told him he could give me the whole 800. well then they yelled at us more and called us thieves and Murderers and dishonest and everything else, ya know. and we just stood there with the cops trying to figure out what to do, and we were waiting for the police chief. Well about 15 min after this the wife came up to me and handed me 800 Griven, kinda came outta nowhere, i was really surprised. Like it totally just strengthened the fact that they had robbed us and that they were lying the whole time or else they wouldnt have even given me a dime. Like if someone accused me of stealing 800 Griven and i truly hadnt done it, i wouldnt give a penny, and especially not offer 600 grieven haha. it was pretty rediculous. Well then the chief came and i had to go to the police station with the fat man and they wouldnt let my comp come with us so we were split up for like an hour. I got the the station and they took me into a room and for like 20 min they questioned me and i told them the story, and then they took the fat man in and did the same thing probably. and then the cop came out and told me that all was good and i could go home. It was surprising, i didnt think i was ever getting out haha. But the Lord Truly Blessed us throughout this whole situation and we came out on top, he robbed us but we got him back haha. So yeah, thankfully we got all the money back. and we learned that we need to be listening and acting more on the promptings of the Spirit. Both me and my comp had the promptings to not even start exchanging money with tihs man but we both ingnored them, and then we had to go through H and back to get the money back. But the Lord was Merciful and we were blessed.

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