Showing posts with label Drag race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drag race. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2015

Attended a Drag race

There is a part member family in the Branch. The Wife is the member and a returned missionary and the husband is a nonmember with no interest in the Church. They have a set of twins a boy and a girl age 8. When we first came out on the mission we were told the wife became less active when the twins were born, and had not been to church since. We visited her and got to know her and her children a little, we had a prayer with her. I could tell at the time that she was touched by the prayer. She started coming to church and Sister Anderson invited her to women’s conference and she not only agreed to go, but said she would drive. We have gotten to know the family some, but normally when we visited the husband is out back working on cars. He is a well trained skilled mechanic who had a very good job with a major car manufacturer, but wanted to have his own business. So he has a transmission shop in the neighboring town. When he is not fixing cars for other people he is working on cars or dragsters he uses for drag racing. Often when we would visit, if we wanted to see him, we had to go out to the shop to visit him. He shared with us a little about his drag racers and we told him, that if he was racing on a Saturday sometime we would like to go watch. Often times the races are on Sunday. He gave us a schedule, over the summer it was pretty hot so we wanted to wait until it was a little cooler. So we went and watched him race on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend. They have lots of rules in those races that I was not aware of, it was good we had the wife there with us explaining all the rules.