"Poco A Poco" (July 15, 2013)

Unexpected Houseguest?

This week was pretty mehh...i don't really know how to describe it. it was good though. We're trying to stop by all the less-actives in Crevillente (there are a lot). Monday we stopped by one that I had never heard of, and she let us in. She said she went to Church like 4. She works a lot and says she doesn't have much time, but we're gonna visit every Monday night from now on so that should be good. That was the first less-active I've been able to really talk with so that was a cool experience. We're moving to a new capilla which is a little bigger, and we're going to be a ward in the future so we're trying to bring as many people back to the church as possible.

Oh on Tuesday we went out to lunch with a guy in our ward who's in the stake presidency. We went to a Wok which is a chinese/mongolian buffet thing that people are obsessed with here. It's a free buffet but the food is disgusting. Everyone just loves it because people like free stuff here. The food made me sick. But this member owns a bunch of Chino's, which are just like dollar stores. And he took us to a giant Chino warehouse, where Chino owners buy stuff to put in Chino's. It's like going to the oriental trading headquarters only cooler and cheaper. he let us pick out whatever we wanted, but mostly everything is super cheap and lame but it was still cool to see it all. 

a man and wife who were going to get baptized for next sunday can't anymore because they have problems with the word of wisdom. he drinks like 3 beers a week, and she drinks coffee some mornings. they said they know they need to stop, but "poco a poco" which means little by little. And it's so dumb because they could easily stop right now, they just don't want to. Whatever. They just need to know why it's important to stop. I like the quote from Bruce R. McConkie that says "true doctrine, understood, changes behaviors better than an understanding of behavior changes behavior" or something like that. I think that's true...

Oh a pretty cool thing took place this week. Our branch president called us and asked us to come over one night. He got an email from someone in the U.S., and it said that they were members of the church, and had relatives from England who lived in our area of spain, and they heard that one of them was in the hospital. both are very old and alone, and they wanted us to try and get a hold of them because they were concerned. we had no other info, but we found out where the hospital was and went and visited her. She was happy that we came. Her husband is very old too and is being put in a home, but she doesn't know why or where. It's a tough situation. But it was cool because the woman only spoke english so i got to do all the talking. she's not a member so we didn't share anything, but we had a prayer and we said we'd try and find out where her husband was, and try and visit again soon. and I've been emailing the guy from the states. I think his name is allen reagan, and he lives in Idaho. It sounds like Cour D'Alene, but I'm not positive.

we've been eating a lot of kebap, which is good but i feel terrible after. i haven't had a churro yet. a little churro shop just opened up for the summer here so i'll go try that soon.

that's cool about the stake. i miss a big ward like that. and people who know how to be reverent...

(Scott told him about the upcoming changes to our church boundaries)

yeah 555 is the mission goal. we're doing really bad with it right now. i think we're only a little over 200. we're a really young mission though. if you have more than a year in the mission you're considered one of the oldest.

i want to do this idea i had, which is to go around door to door in normal non proselyting clothes, and collect clothes or old toys for charity. just to show the people here that we are nice people. because the people here hate us. i want to implement that.

That’s allllllllllllllllllllllllll!