A Funny story from Steven's Companion

Elder Polera's mother sent the following message to me yesterday. For those of you who know Steven well, you will know that he is TERRIFIED of dogs! Hates them. And he has mentioned to us before how almost everyone in Uruguay has dogs--and they are NOT well-behaved. So, picture Steven and his dog phobia when you read the following...

I know Cody is really enjoying serving with Steven. I am so grateful that he has such a good companion. I thought I would share what he said last week below.

Take care,

Janine Polera

Last week he said: So Thorderson and I are getting along just fine. We work together really well and can get stuff done. He speaks spanish really well and knows his stuff.

Crazy story:

Right now we are just contacting people all the time trying to find new investigators. So we contacted this house with this old guy. He invited us to sit on his porch to talk which stank to high heaven and there were so many flies. Well he has like 6 dogs and they start wandering over and start laying under our chairs and stuff. He yells at them to leave and then says he will back in a second. He comes out with a stiff rubber hose thing about 2.5 feet long and rushes towards us. I thought he was about to hit me for a second. Then he starts whaling on these dogs and yelling like he is possessed or something. The dogs start to scatter and Elder Thorderson is already out of his chair off the porch. I'm about to jump up and out of this crazy chaos when one of the dogs runs into another that is kinda angry. Suddenly there is a dog fight on my feet. So now I'm stuck in my seat and can't go anywhere and E' T' is just stuck watching. Holy cow, just crazy...Needless to say we kinda wrapped it up quick and left.

MOM NOTE: Can you just picture Steven FLYING off the front porch with those dogs scattering everywhere?! I just laugh out loud thinking about it!