Monday, November 25, 2013

"We had a lesson with [a] 101 year old." (November 4, 2013)

Wow Gretchen is pregnant already? Wow. Yeah I got the package Wednesday. Thanks! I gave out the spider rings to the beehive and valiant girls… Halloween I guess has only been a holiday for like 10 years here, so not everyone celebrates it. BUT THEY TOOK OFF THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FROM SCHOOL TO CELEBRATE IT!!! AND ITS NOT EVEN THERE HOLIDAY!!!! AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY ARE IN A CRISIS...!!! THEY TAKE OFF TWO DAYS FOR AN AMERICAN HOLIDAY THAT WE DON´T EVEN GET A DAY OFF FROM!!! There was a party for the primary at the capilla Friday. We stopped by for a second. Holy cow though trying to proselyte Thursday and Friday night was so hard. No one wanted anything. 

I just called the Elder´s in Crevillente to try and get the address of a member, and it just filled me up with so much joy. It sounds like everyone´s doing really well there, and a couple that we taught the whole time I was there are getting baptized in a few weeks for sure now. O how I miss that place. They put two more Elders in Crevillente so there are 4 now...crazy.

This week was pretty depressing although our numbers were pretty good. We just aren´t happy that we haven´t been able to find anyone new to teach. For P-day none of us had any money so we just emailed and then played Settler´s of Catan all day. Elder Buckway has two extensions so the game was pretty crazy. I didn´t understand the rules at all and to be honest I was writing letters so I wasn´t paying too much attention. 

Tuesday we had a specialized training in Cadiz. We had to bet there at 9:30 so we had to wake up at like 6:30 to get ready and take the bus there. It was a pretty normal meeting...

The middle of the week was pretty boring. Everything is moving so slow. We find people but they can only meet one day a week so it´s hard to make real progress. Saturday night we found ourselves on a street that we knew some inactive members lived, but we didn´t have any information about them, only their names and address. We knock the door and a woman answers and lets us in. I realized I had met her before at the house of a member, and I remembered that she was a Jehovah´s Witness. It turns out that her parents are members, but her dad is 101 YEARS OLD, and her mom is 81. Neither of them can really talk or do anything. They just sit in a bed all day every day and their kids just wait for them to die. But its crazy the 81 year old seems way worse than her 101 year old husband. We had a lesson with the 101 year old. He could understand well enough, and even bore a little testimony. Something about Jesus Christ …. And he said he wanted us to come by more. I think we´ll prob stop by every week or two.

Hey there is a inactive couple that wants to get in touch with the missionary who baptized them, but they have no way of doing that. Can you try looking up the missionary on facebook? His name is Frank Preston Royer (not sure how exactly to spell Royer). He´d be about 50-55, and lived in Arizona at one point. 

That´s it. Sorry, like I said this week sucked.


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