Nothing
too exciting this week to be honest. We set really high goals, but we had to
deal with so much crap this week that we barely had any time to actually work. One
night we were stuck out in the campo and it was raining really hard, but we
were still knocking all the doors we passed. We knocked on one guys house, and
he said he wasn´t interested in our message. We talked a bit longer about his
beliefs and if he prays. Then he just started crying. He said his
grand-daughter died a few weeks ago and she was only three, so he´s not sure
about his faith. We talked a bit more and he said we can come by another day if
he was available. So it was pretty cool to see him change like that. Also, we
have a less active member that we visit, and she has a daughter that is a
member too, but she is really inactive and wants nothing to do with the church.
Somehow we got her to tell us the address of her daughter and we went to visit
her. A member told us that this girl and her husband were drug addicts so we
should be careful. We knocked her door pretending like we didn´t know who she
was, and she was pretty rude and abrasive at first. She said her mother was a
member but she didn´t want to hear anything. We talked a bit more about her mom
and she opened up a ton. She got a lot nicer and we asked her if she needed any
help from us. She said no, but she gave us a bunch of cake, and jus totally
changed her demeanor with us in about 2 minutes. It was pretty cool. We´ll stop
by to say hello to her every once in a while I think.
We
had a lesson with an investigator and his less active girlfriend. The
girlfriend is coming back to church, and has a really strong testimony, but is just
really lazy. Her boyfriend is trying to quit smoking, and they want to get
married and get sealed in the temple. Jose Luis is the guy and he´s awesome. He
definitely had a rough time growing up, but he´s a recovering alcoholic and is
really trying to change his life. He´s so nice and wants to be a good example
for his son who´s 7. It was so funny, he prayed after the lesson, and he kept
saying, ¨O Lord, please bless the kids. They need so much help. There are so
many kids that are so hungry. And they need to be blessed¨ and he just kept
saying stuff like that for like 3 minutes straight. Only about the kids. And
then after he said, sorry, it´s just that the children are really important and
need help. It was funny.
The
24th was one year since I opened my mission call.
We
had the youth activity Friday night and it was a big success. The leaders want
us to organize one every week but we told them we dont have time to do that.
But we´re gonna try and go to all the activities if were not too busy. We were
going to play volleyball on the court outside, but it started raining so we
played a game where you tie a balloon to your foot and then try and pop
everyone else’s balloon. it was fun and everyone enjoyed it. A lot of youth
came. I guess no one ever comes to youth acitvities. And we had 5 non-member
youth there. One was one of our investigators who´s 16. We´re teaching him and
his mom. And a member kid brought two friends to the activity. One of the
friends came to church with the kid yesterday, and then last night the mom
called us and said that she invited the family of the kid over to their house
this Thursday and we´re gonna go too and have a lesson. I guess the kid was
saying he wanted to get baptized, and the family had mentioned stuff about how
the world is so confusing with so many religions, so we´re gonna help them out
with that.
Friday
after the activity we had to go to San Fernando because the sister missionaries
there had an investigator who had a baptismal date for the next day, so he
needed a baptismal interview. He´s the husband of a member, and has been
investigating the church for a while, but he doesnt have a testimony of Joseph
Smith. They asked me to come over and do the interview anyways and try and
convince him. I was nervous but excited. We went and the two of us talked a
bit. I asked him the baptismal question if he believed Joseph Smith restored
the Church and he said I don´t know. So we chatted a bit more and then we
prayed about it. But he said he still hadn´t received an answer. We talked a
bit more, and then I asked him the question again and asked him to really
listen to the spirit, but still, he said he didn´t feel like he had received
his answer. I told him I thought he had already received it. He believes in all
the commandments and everything about the Church. And I said that God had
already given him the answer through all of that. But he expects some glorious
revelation. So we couldn’t pass him in the interview. O well, I think he´ll get
baptized soon. And the Hermana´s weren´t expecting him to pass, they just
wanted to try and see what would happen.
That´s
really it....yeah there has been some halloween decorations in some stores, but
i dont really know what to expect for when the day comes. there’s a party in Cadiz
for the youth, but we can’t go. :(
love
ya adios
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