Cow intestines and "The Haircut" (August 5, 2013)

Yeah Elder Leon is fine. We had some good talks this week about what we want to change. Things are a bit better. 

Calvin and Elder Leon (The Comp that wanted to play barber)

Miguel is good. He's still reading like crazy. He read all of Mosiah in 2 days. 

We had a lesson with a guy who's probably about 40, and he has a family. He was investigating a while ago and we've been trying to have a real lesson with him again. We were able to on Tuesday and it was really good. He's been reading the Book of Mormon and said if he learns the truth of it he'll get baptized. He's super smart and has a really nice house. He'd be a great member I think. He's catholic though and his family doesn't really know that he's investigating, which is always a problem. Even if he receives an answer he'd still have to go through his family. We'll see though.

Some investigators fed us cow intestines. It wasn't too bad. But I didn't ask for seconds. 

Thursday was a crazy day. We had 7 lessons which is a lot. We were finally able to meet with one of the two teenage girls we had been teaching for a while, Nicole. She had a baptismal date for July 28th, but missed it and seemed super cold. If she didn't seem excited or anything to meet with us this day, we were going to stop meeting with her. But without us even talking about it, she said she was sorry for missing her baptismal date, and wants another one. So we gave her a date for 3 weeks. She said she's going to prepare and do everything she needs to. She's the same age as Nissa, so we are going to have Nissa come to a lesson and hopefully they will become best friends and serve missions and get married on the same day and be friends for life. That's what we're fasting for. 

O yeah and on our way to this pueblo, some lady called us saying she lived in that pueblo and had a bunch of church books she needed us to pick up. We guessed she was some less active woman we had never met. So we went over there, and she told us that she had been excommunicated years ago. We had to talk to some other members to get the full story, but she and this other member ( a guy) had been living together (outside of marriage) for a couple years. both super strong in the church. So they got married, and were gonna wait a year until they could come back to the church. 6 months after they got married, the guy was working on something and fell down a well (A WELL!!) (FOR WATER!!) and died. Now she has a new family and doesnt want to come back to the church. She was super nice though. She has friends who are still members, and she let us share a scripture and have a prayer. And she said we could come by any time. She also gave us a bunch of her dead husbands ties which we've been wearing.

saturday morning we played some basketball which was fun, except the people in spain are terrible at basketball. 

yeah me haircut. elder leon cut it. wayyy shorter than i wanted. he told me had cut hair tons of times but really it was his first time...i was pretty mad but now it seems ok. i'm not gonna let him do it again.