We had a pretty cool week here. It doesn´t really show through the numbers
we got, but really its the changes and help that really count if you ask
me.
Monday was good. Pretty tranquilo P-day. We went out and got to work in the
evening. Had a really cool lesson with this couple that we are working with:
Francisco and Marisel. Neither of them are members but they have been to church
3 and 2 times respectively. They really like it. She knows that its true. He´s
having a little bit of a hard time giving up his Catholic beliefs and such, but
they are coming along. They really liked church last week. She told us about how
she had learned about the importance of the law of chastity. So we got to talk
about families and them getting married and such. It went really well. A couple
days later she told us that she had read the pamphlet and that it had brought
her to tears of happiness and of wanting to repent for living together. So
hopefully they can get that worked out soon. She really wants to get married. He
wants to, but isn´t in too much of a rush. They would of come to church this
week but had to take a surprise vacation with his work or something and to visit
his mom. Oh well. Next week.
We also had a fun moment where we found one of the members dogs in front of
our house. It had got lost but somehow knew where we lived. It didn´t want to
follow us to his house. But then when we went in our house it just barked and
scratched at the gate. So we got frustrated and I had to walk the dumb dog home
by his collar. Its funny because the streets are really territorial here. Its
like living in the dog version Compton or Brooklyn or something. haha. So I had
to walk in home, almost dragging it through the sketchier parts while Elder
Svedin practiced his baseball skills and scared off all of the gangster street
dogs with rocks. He almost killed one or two. Needless to say, that was an
adventure. Something that I had never imagined that I would do on my mission.
lol.
Tuesday we almost spent the whole day on the bus. It left at 8. We got
there at 12:30. Had a 2 hour meeting. Got on the 3:30 bus. Got back at 8ish.
Ugh. But, thats the life. I actually really like bus rides now. The part that
was the worst was that they were showing movies the whole way there, and then
some movies and music on the way back. Way distracting and not really
spiritually uplifting. I did catch up on some of my reading though in Preach My
Gospel so that was nice. The conference on the other hand was just
grand. Thoroughly enjoyed it. We learned about how to meet the South America
Souths goals, how to have better ward councils, and the importance of working
with the men and fathers of the families. Great stuff that we applied later in
the week.
Wednesday was a little bit of a bummer. Most of our plans went right down
the drain when a couple of things got mixed up. Adriana is still doing great
though. And her boyfriend agreed to get married!!...... in December. Noooo. So
now we have to try even Harder to talk with him. She´s being a great missionary
though. She brought her cousin to church with her again this week, and so we´re
working with her too. Thats awesome.
Thursday was a little rough too. We made a sacrifice to go visit someone
that lives a ways away. And... she was sick. Dang it. Then we had the ward
activity that night and so there went most of our time. The president didn´t
show up either and so our plan of watching a movie fell through. So I had to
make a last minute game plan, and we played some gospel pictionary kind of
thing, and made a game out of memorizing a scipture. Close one. Apparently we
should have made a bigger emphasis in memorizing the reference too though
because I can´t remember where it is. lol. ¨Let no man dispise thy youth, but be
an example of the believers.....¨
Friday we had some really good plans. Most of them fell through as well
(lame), but we were able to make the best of it and do a bunch of visits that we
had needed to do, but just didn´t have time for. So that was nice. Cleverson is
going through a little bit of a rough patch with work and his family and stuff
and so we were able to share with him which was nice.
Saturday was really cool. We cleaned the church but it went really quick
with everyones help. Then after our studies we got out to work. We went over and
were talking with Adriana about how we were going to be able to ¨get at¨ her
husband. Well, at that exact moment he showed up from work. I wasn´t sure what
to do, but I remembered the example that President had given us at the meeting
we had had about just asking for a little time and then giving a solid testimony
to try and get their attention. So before he could run away, I told him we just
wanted to talk a little bit. He still ended up walking away, and we thought we
had lost. But he came back out in a couple of minutes. At first it was a little
bit rough going, but after a little bit we were able to get a little flow going.
Promised lots of blessings. Talked about the need he had to take action and know
for himself. About WHY we were getting Adriana so excited and demanding to get
married. In the end I think it went really well. He accepted the invitation to
get baptized when he knows its true, and we had a nice little kneeling prayer at
the end that he gave. The only bad thing being the fact that they neighbour had
his music SUPER loud the whole lesson. You could hardly hear Elder Sveding when
he was sharing. But, nothing you can do. Thankfully the spirit speaks louder
than words. Hopefully we see some progression there.
After that we went and bought a bunch of stuff. We´re all out of money, but
fortunately I had some personal money and I took out some more today. We bought
the stuff for an investigator who is going to quit smoking. We had some goofy
stop smoking lesson and hopefully if he sticks to it and uses the stuff we gave
him he´ll be able to stop by the end of the week. For good. So that was nice. I
really think he can be a great leader in the future. Recent convert that has
fallen away for a bit because of work and the smoking problems, but is willing
to do anything to come back.
We also got to give this large print bible to a members grandma that night.
She absolutely loved it. lol. That was fun.
Anyways, I´m basically out of time. Sunday was good. Adriana and her cousin
went to church. Francisco was out of town. But, thats how it goes. I had to
teach the class and give a talk with little preparation, but oh well. People
said that they went alright. or decent. Or good. I don´t know. We finally had
ward council and so we also got to apply all of that. Hopefully we get more
support from all that.
But yeah. Gotta run. Luckily I had some time here and so you didn´t have to
wait. Have a great week and write you again next Monday (hopefully). Love you
lots! Chau.
Elder Humphreys
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