Monday, June 6, 2011

Spent our last couple of dimes

Good week! Glad to hear that all is going well. Havin fun. Working hard. Doin nice little dances. Going to the Temple. Legit. Thats where its at!

We had a pretty good week. Nothing TOOOO out of the ordinary. Spent our last couple of dimes on Monday. Thankfully the money arrived like it was supposed to on Tuesday and we didn´t have to starve to death or anything. Had a nice little Noche de Hogar monday night. Taught about how although not keeping the commandments makes it look like you have more freedoms, in the end you find that Satans got you in his grasps, and you´re left with bad health, nobody trusts you, you have a mess for a family. Stuff like that. But when we follow Gods comandments, we are restricted a little bit in the things that we can do, but in the end we find that we have what we need, we have blessings, friends, health, security, a great family, eternal life. Stuff like that. I think they liked it. Adrian (the last kid we baptized) told us that one day he wants to be a missionary too. Pretty cool stuff. ´He´s only 11 right now, but they got great hearts and I think they can do it with a little help.

We didn´t get to go to district meeting on Tuesday because its so far away and uses a lot of time. So basically we´ve been in San Pedro for 3 weeks without leaving or seeing another missionary. Pretty crasy. We´re doing good, but its nice to get out, get all pumped to be good missionaries. Suff like that. Instead we visited a less active member that lives WAY out of town. They haven´t been too church cuz they live too far away and they don´t have  a way to get in to town. So we took a bus out. The dad almost got baptized before, but they were waiting for papers to get married and then moved too far away. But they say their papers have come and that they now are going to move back into town. So thats super cool. They didn´t move this week like they planned, but hopefully it goes well. Blessings. It only took us like an hour or so to walk back, so I hope they move soon. lol.

Wednesday we finally got all our money out, so that ment bill paying. You feel really rich when the month starts, but after you pay rent for the house, church, and then the electricity and water from both of those that you didn´t pay earlier because you didn´t have money... you realize you dont actually have that much at all. But I think we´ll do better this month. I hope.

One of our investigators invited us in when we passed by. He was super drunk. It was fun. He kept spitting everywhere. Tried to feed us uncooked sausage and make us show him our families on facebook. Fortunately we got out without any problem. Next time we´ll try and visit him earlier in the day.

Taught piano again this week. Its harder than it looks! The language doesn´t help either, and they don´t have any way to practice during the week. But we´re trying.

Accomplished lots in my studies this week. Finished Preach My Gospel and True to the Faith! Yeah. Good stuff. So now I´ve basically finished the whole missionary library. Its been great. Now I´m going to really focus on the scriptures, and now that I´ve gotten my new Liahonna, the conference talks again. Ya.

Found a couple really cool investigators this week. Ones a single mom with great member support. The other is a family that have 3 kids, one whos old enough to get baptized. They didn´t come to church this week (I think its because it was cold - the reports said it would be only 8 degrees or so, and so most people didn´t even bother to wake up in the morning.. even the members), but I think they should start progressing this week. Pretty cool.

Cleaned the church this week. Its filthy. The dust collects in there and its not nice. Can´t wait till we have a real chapel. None of the members bothered to come and help so me and Elder Chatelain did it. But we got most of the cobwebs out of the sacrament room, so I´m pretty happy.

Sunday went normally. But we got to take a suprise 4 hour trip to visit the nearest set of missionaries, so today I´m writing from a city called Santani. Good stuff. Its been fun. Played some soccer, got the letters and Liahonas I´ve been waiting for (Grandpa - I got your letter no. 4. Thanks!), and its been good. Heading back tonight. Had to sleep last night without a pillow though. I´m telling you right now that pillows are suprisingly UNDER-rated. You sleep a lot better with a good one. Oh well.

But yeah. Good stuff. That was the week. Out of time. Glad you´re all well. Stay safe and don´t do anything too crasy! Remember that the church is true, do your best, share the gospel! Love you lots, Be good people. Ya.

Love ya!

Elder Humphreys

PS - Did I really see bro Mclain and Matthew in the Liahona? If I did, thats legit that I spotted them. If not... Tranquilo.

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