Que ONda= FAMILIA,
It has been 7 months, that is so weird--- and also its been another week, only 2 weeks left in this transfer. Time is going so fast. Day to day it feels like weeks, but the weeks feel like days, if that makes sense. I finally understand haha, missions go fast!
ps early: I didn't read your email mom, its long ha and I don't have much time. But I will respond to the Q´s you left.
Q´s
1. DID YOU GET THE PACKAGE WITH THE WEDDING PICS AND CALENDAR?
no, not yet, hopefully tonight, but I doubt it ha. When did you send it? The mail is super slow now a days, for everyone including Mexicans from home. I am excited to get it!
2. HOW ARE YOUR RETAINERS?
They´re good-- ha, I haven't worn them for awhile.... but yeah—they're fine. I'll check how they feel today when I get home, I forgot this the morning... ;)
3. FOLLOW UPS ON JOSE AND ALL THE OTHERS FROM LAST WEEK.....
more lower...
4. WE LOVE YOU!
REALLY YY??!!!!! YAHHOOOOO!!!!! ;)
We had a great week. No me diga. I have to start with a story about our investigator, Raul... his wife is a member, Pili, and has been for about 7 years, but he has never been interested in the church, para nada! About 5 months ago he had toe surgery for a delayed response to an ingrown toenail, and they had to cut off like half his big toe and because it was so infected. When I got here, he smoked, drank and was just NEVER interested. I taught his grandson Juan, who was going to be baptized my 2nd transfer but his dad wouldn't let him-- I don't know if you remember me talking about him. ANYWAYS... he never accepted our offer of a Priesthood blessing for his healing. It still bothers him, and he is in a lot of pain, and quite honestly, it's disgusting.... hahaha—it's like a HUGE scab... but our bishop and other leaders have passed by their house to offer a blessing, and he never would let them. WEELLLLL, like 10 days ago, we passed by his house at 8:45pm , on our way home, only to ask his wife if she could come with us to a lesson the next day. We showed up, and he let us in, and we just start talking to him while his wife was busy. He complained about his toe, and my comp asks him if he wanted a blessing- he paused for about 10 seconds, and then accepted! His wife then came in, we told her we were going to give him a blessing and she was shocked! Absolutely shocked! We gave him a blessing, and after, he said that literally he felt the pain in his toe cease when we laid our hands on his head. Then he said ¨creo que me voy a la iglesia este domingo.¨ I think I am going to go to church this Sunday. NO WAY! His first time in the church ever was 2 Sundays ago, and he literally loved it! He's like 70, so he doesn't work, so we taught him every day last week, and everything was going sooo goooodd....!!! We set a baptismal date for 4th of February on a Friday. He was super stoked! We left, stopped by Saturday to teach again, and he let us in, then said he wasn't going to continue. He tried to give his Book of Mormon and pamphlets back to us. At this point, we were devastated. No way! Not again, please..... we were with him for about an hour and a half, just talking, bearing testimony and reminding him of what he was feeling. I know he felt that the Chruch was true. We left with him and he had not changed his mind. We were so bummed! He basically told us not to come back.
Then the miracle happened with him.... again! We passed by our other investigators Sunday morning, and they weren't there. It was 11:35pm, 25 minutes until church, and we thought--- let's just stop by Raul's house and we showed up, Pili, his wife had already left for church, and we walked in his house, he walked into the room with a polo shirt and a hat, and when he saw us, he said. ¨I am coming to church!¨ No way! I honestly thought it was pointless to even stop by his house, and now he was coming! We left his house, he stopped both of us, and looked at us. ¨olviden todo lo que dije ayer. voy a seguir.¨ FORGET EVERYTHING I SAID YESTERDAY. IM GOING TO CONTINUE!!!¨ Noooo way—neither I nor my comp could believe it. I ran out into the street and did a heel tap off the curb about as high as I've ever done it before, sooo excited!!!!
Then it gets better, at church, we had the class 2nd hour, principles of the gospel class, and we talked about baptism. He is on!!! 4th of February, and his excited! After church, we were standing next to him and people were filing out to leave and he was inviting people to his baptism, 4th of February. We could not believe it!
We also have a baptism this week and I am so happy! Also about Jose-- he didn't come to church yesterday... something is up with him-- we´ll see this week. We also have Mario and Ulysis in teh capilla, they both have their baptismal dates for 4th of feb along with Raul. It will be amazing if we can get them all. Dori is a bum... we have a cita with her tomorrow. And we have some bien potente citas with new investigators this Tuesday and Wednesay this week—we are full already. I am excited!
So this week, apart from blessings and miracles we've seen, was way fun. I had divisions with a new elder from Chile. We had interviews with the president in our house! Holy cow, we cleaned our house DANG good before he came. and I'm here today, survived the interview ;)
What else?... ummmm oh sooo I got this supper cooool voice recorder in the mail last week, and I've been obsessed with it. I just attached all the recording I did--I just attached them all, cause I couldn't tell which were which, but one of them is a talk I gave in church yesterday. obviously it's in Spanish, but I thought I'd attach it for Rob, Dave, Natalie, Bri and all you wanna be Spanish speakers ;) haha. Really it gives me shame ha, I have the WORST accent!!!! and I couldn't even make it 2 words before I messed up already... its ¨buenos tardes¨ at 12:30 pm...haha. I still sound the same as the first day I got here! It is soo bad-- but enjoy!
Well fam, I'm outtie, love you all. Thank you so much for e´rrr thannggg, lub u aLL!
over and out,
elder C
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