May 27,
2013
Thanks for the pic...it makes my heart melt. I try and play
with dogs whenever I can. I haven´t seen any that match up to Cato yet though.
I haven’t gotten your letters yet. They went to the mission
home so I only get them when we have zone conferences, which we are having this
friday. the president is coming to speak with us so it should be really good.
last p-day we were in elche (we are today too) and shopped
and then just went back to crevillente and relaxed for a couple hours. then we
went to a ward members house in the campo (countryside, like a normal house).
they are the strongest family in the branch. the dad is the former branch president
and is now in the stake presidency. we go for family night every monday.
we met this guy who is a super wealthy author and talked
with him for a while. i dont think hes interested in the church at all. he
seemed really smart but at the same time i feel like he could have just been
bs-ing us about everything. its hard to tell in spanish. he smoked like 5
cigarettes while we were there so we felt sick for the rest of the day.
in the branch we have 5 members that are deaf, so they
always want the missionaries to learn spanish sign language. but it’s really
unfair because we´re trying to learn spanish too...but we go to class once a
week and its pretty funny to try.
ok so we have a book full of information on old
investigators. people who were being taught and then stopped for some reason.
one morning i just randomly called one, and he answered, and he said he´d call
us back when he had time and we knew that just meant we´d never hear from him.
but then that night, he called us and wanted to meet the next day. and we were
thinking MIRACLE!!! we read all his information and found out he was a CATHOLIC
PRIEST. but we decided to meet with him, and he drove us to another pueblo to
his office next to his chapel. and the first thing he did was show us a really
long letter he recieved from the Vatican that was basically a warning of
excommunication. so he believes that we
are already all in heaven, but we just don´t know it. and he drew us a bunch of
timelines on paper to explain. and he wants to preach about it but the catholic
church won´t let him, so he just called us to rant about these crazy ideas. it
was pretty ridiculous. he´s nuts. we´re gonna meet with him again just because
we want to take a tour of his catholic chapel.
the two teenagers we´re getting ready to baptize are going
really well. i was really worried about teaching them chastity and word of
wisdom, but they both just said “yeah that’s logical and it makes sense.” it
was really cool. they live alone with their mom so we really want to teach her
as well.
we have our 3 baptisms next week, but after that we really
have no one. its hard travelling to other pueblos because we can usually only
go once or twice a week. we need to find people in crevillente but its amazing
how unfriendly they are compared to the other pueblos. they literally just
ignore us and stare at the ground even if we only say hello as we walk by them.
but we´re gonna start to contact everyone
an elder who just finished his mission a couple weeks ago
just came to visit with his family. he is kind of a legend here in
crevillente. He baptized 5 people in 6
months which i guess is a lot. i want to do more though, even though we
shouldn´t compare...
i´m almost 1/8 of the way through my mission which is pretty
crazy...
o yeah and can you tell maddie to unprivatize my facebook?
people are always trying to find me but my name doesnt show up when you search
for it. i always have to click domineau and then search for me under her
friends.
i found a couple scriptures i really like this week. one is
alma 36:21. it reminds me of a quote from the odyssey that says "even his
griefs are a joy long after to him that remembers all that he has wrought and
endured".
and then another scripture that makes me LOL is alma
27:16-19. when alma and the sons of mosiah meet, it says ammon had so much joy
that he feinted. and then it says "now alma, omner, and himner (or whoever
it was) also had much joy, but not enough that they feinted". i thought it
was funny that it had to be clarified.
things are good here. we teach a lot of lessons. we need to
find more investigators that will progress.
love you all and miss you!
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