Hello family how is it going? I'm just sitting here giving my weekly report
so I hope you like it. Let's get
started. We've been teaching a lot this
week. Last transfer we found a girl named E who
is a daughter of a member and she is handicapped in the sense that she can't
walk very well. They went on vacation to
Paraguay and now they are back so we are teaching her again. She is
progressing very well. She got sick so
she didn't come to church.
We are also
teaching B and L. They are a
couple that isn't married. It is kind of
sad because this week we taught them the plan of salvation. They seem to like it but at the end of the
lesson they told us they are breaking up which is so sad because they have a
child together. We also had to drop an
investigator named L this week.
She told us she really likes the Book of Mormon and is going to keep
reading it but she's Catholic and she told us that no one will ever convince
her to change religions. We were also were
walking in our area this week and this guy was going by on his bike and started
talking to us. He said that his wife was
really sick and he asked us to give her a blessing. Every time that we are asked to give a
blessing we have to get permission from the mission president because he holds the keys. I called him and he said to just say a prayer
and bless her through the prayer. She
has this big ulcer, scab thing on her leg that eats away at it. It started to heal and get better but the scabbing
causes a ton of pain. She wants to itch
it really bad but it's all over her leg.
It's really gross. We went back
and she was crying the whole time we were there and it was really sad. That experience helped me learn even more
about the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Even though I'm not the one suffering it taught me a lot.
We are also teaching B. B is soldid, she is awesome. She reads a lot of books and is really
smart. She understands the Book of
Mormon very well. She understands and
feels this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. She's been praying to find the church to
join. The only problem is we can't seem to get her to come
to church. She has an ex-brother-in law
that gets drunk every night and he brings his kids to her house in the middle
of the night so she's taking care of the kids and doesn't get any sleep. Hopefully she'll get baptized,
patience. Also this week we started with
another couple, M and E. M is a member. His mom is a member as of
23 years ago , one of the first members here in Las Lomitas. She's been less active for the past
year. When I first got here she was
really hard hearted but now she is a lot more open and humble and I think she's
trying to set an example for her son. We
are teaching E today to see if she wants to be sealed in the temple.
A and D are doing good but D is leaving
a lot and A doesn't know what to do.
She really wants to go to church and get baptized but she's sort of
stopped. C and D are doing
really well. D has almost stopped
smoking, she's down to 2 cigarettes a day.
C stopped drinking her tea and is going to obey the word of wisdom. She has a boyfriend but she doesn't know if
he wants to get married. We invited her
to pray with him and start reading the Book of Mormon with him. I think D will get baptized in the next
few weeks.
There was a member that used to live here named G. He has a girlfriend who isn't a member.
She is really solid and has been to church about 7 times. She needs to get married. We are trying
to do the paperwork for their marriage.
That's about it for investigators.
Kind of crazy this week.
I have another ingrown toenail. Number 7 or 8 I don't remember, just way too many. There's no Dr here so I called the medical
missionary and in 2 weeks we have a multi zone conference in Formosa so I'm
going to see if I can make it until then.
The Zone leaders this week gave me some peanut butter and I
had a peanut butter sandwich so that was good!
Also this week some gypsies asked me to dance. I didn't dance with them of course.
Yesterday we were at lunch just minding our
own business and we hear an ambulance.
Right before the ambulance came J had left to go pick up his mom. The
ambulance came and then there were police in front of the house and people
yelling. J comes back and tells us
that an older lady just stabbed her boyfriend to death in the street about a
block away from where we were. Not sure
what that story is but pretty crazy.
That's about it, I'm learning a lot about patience in this
area. Great investigators but they have
a lot of obstacles. For example we have
a water filter and it's worn out so every second it drops a drop of water. We stick a Gatorade bottle under it and it
drips all day and all night long and then once it's full we can drink the
water. The work is like that here. We have to work little by little.
It's fun, I like it.
It was really cool this week about 90 degrees maximum. Here's a story, G wanted to give us some cheese, so he pulls
it out of his bag. This doesn't look
like any type of cheese that I've ever seen before. It was this little white frozen thing. I didn't really want to eat it so we took it
and said thanks and said we'd take it home and eat it for lunch. But G was like "no eat it now it's
good". He started eating it and it
was kind of like a YOLO moment. So I took
a bite and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth. It tasted like vomit and had the texture of
frozen Styrofoam. I almost threw up and
I walked off and spit it out. I had to
walk home with that taste in my mouth.
It was the most disgusting thing that I've ever eaten. I'd rather lick the bottom of my shoe than eat
that cheese again. I don't even know
what it was. Our guess is that it was
fat but we're not actually sure what it was.
So that was fun, don't worry I'm still alive and well.
Love you guys have a great week. Bye bye
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