"...guy... got hit by a motorcycle going full speed" (December 9, 2013)

This week was pretty decent. Tuesday we were knocking doors and a young polish girl answered. She was probably in her late 20´s. She spoke Spanish. We were talking about the Book of Mormon and about how Christ came to visit the Americas, and she said "EN SERIO?? NO SABÍA!!" Which means "REALLY?? I DIDN´T KNOW!!" It was pretty funny just because she thought it was like common knowledge that no one had told her before. But we explained that you have to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon. We gave her a copy and she said she´d read it. Then on Friday we were doing exchanges and I was in San Fernando. Elder Buckway called this polish girl to see if she could meet. She said she was on vacation until Tuesday but was almost done with the book!! Less than a week!! So we´re excited to go meet with her tomorrow. Then We met with A.... this brasilian girl. She was in a fight with her boyfriend so I´m grateful for the contention between them and am hoping that they break up.

 

Mornings are usually terrible here. Everyone´s "busy" so basically you just wonder around for 3 hours. But we were so close to having a perfect morning with three investigator lessons. We went by this one guy who we had been trying to meet with for a long time. We had a really good lesson and gave him a Book of Mormon. He said he´d read it and seemed excited. But then he told us he´s going out of town until February-ish...so that was rough. Then we met with another investigator, then went to another investigator to cap off the perfect morning, but he wasn´t there. So we just had a lesson with his inactive girlfriend. So it was still good. Later that night we went by the house of an active member, but her grandson (who is the son of the girlfriend of an investigator) lives with her and he´s 14 so we wanted to meet him. We had a quick lesson and got to know the kid. He´s a good kid. We would like to baptize him. Then the m

ember had been complaining about her hand hurting and her not being able to do any work around the house, so we offered to give her a blessing. I gave her the blessing which is really hard because you have to use tu form and subjunctive so I doubt it made much sense. But then we saw her a couple days later and she said 5 minutes after we left her hand felt perfectly fine and didn´t have to worry about it anymore. Then we went to visit a family of members that just moved here from Argentina. The wife served in Salt Lake Temple Square, and the dad served in Argentina. The dad was a bodyguard for Apostles in Argentina. The Church recently made some cuts so he lost the job and they moved here. But he has pictures with a bunch of Prophets and Apostles and has a bunch of cool stories. Really strong member. And his wife teaches english in an academy so she speaks english perfectly.

Friday we had a zone meeting in Cádiz which was good. We have another week to find new investigators coming soon. We have a goal to find 800 as a mission. It´ll be really hard, but we´re excited. Then I went to San Fernando for the night. Me and Zone Leader Berrett taught one of their new investigators. This guy was walking on a crosswalk and got hit by a motorcycle going full speed. An active member was in a car right next to him, so the member got out, gave him a blessing, and drove him to the hospital. I guess he was really hurt. To thank the member, the guy agreed to listen to the missionaries 5 times. The guys name is E......, and really doesn´t seem like anyone you´d ever talk to about the church. He has piercings and a mohawk. But he´s really nice. We taught the Restoration and it went well. He said he´d pray and read the Book of Mormon (but they all say that). 

 

Sunday right after Sacrament one of our investigators named M..... popped her head in to the Sacrament room. We didnt know she was there, but she came just for the last 20 minutes. We have sacrament last, so church was over. We always try and meet with her during the week and she always fails us. She couldn´t meet that night, so she wanted to meet with us right after church instead. It was really the first real lesson we´d had with her, even though we see each other all the time and is really friendly with us. We taught the restoration and then gave her a baptismal fecha for december 20th. Its a friday which is weird, but her son is leaving the 21st for Madrid so she wanted him to be there too. I think she´ll get baptized for sure. And her son too after a little more time. We were really excited about that. Then last night we had an activity with the Young Single Adults (JAS) and we all went out to visit the inactive JAS. We went by two that weren´t home, and then we went by this inactive JAS named V....., who is dating one of our investigators. We went by her house and our investigator was there, and so was her really inactive brother. We caught them all by surprise, but chatted a bit. V.... said she is ready to return to church, her brother is 32, so not a JAS, but he´s really nice and said perhaps he´ll come to church one sunday soon. It was fun to go out with the younger members for a bit.

That´s all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all are enjoying the Christmas SEASONNNNNNNNNNNNNN