Hola Mi Familia!
This week was pretty
good. It wasn't the best, but you just try and work hard in the situation
that you’re faced with. It's hard at times but you just got to have a
heart full of love. You have to love them when they aren't the best
companions. You can't be frustrated or hold anger - it won't get you
anywhere. You have to love them and show them that you do. I have
definitely learned patience and that I can't sit there and be frustrated.
It's difficult, but you have to work through it.
This week was a pretty good
week. We didn't have great numbers so that was a bummer. The
Anthony Elder's kicked our butt this week and that made me upset because we
usually turn out to have better numbers than them. On Tuesday, Elder
Barnes got a new greenie who came from Mexico. His other companion went
up North. He has a girlfriend. It’s nuts. He also has
come out and stated that he never wants to be companion with me. We were
driving and all having fun, and I was just being myself and he just came out
and said that. Right now he is being super loud in this library because
his parents have the password to his email and they are seeing all the love
notes he is sending to his girlfriend. He
is yelling about it in the library as we write. Elder Mason and I are
laughing so hard. It’s nuts.
On Wednesday we got done with our
nightly runs and got home around 9:00. We started to relax and just chill
till 10:15 when we got ready for bed. I was on the couch, and my
companion was on his bed. He got a text from one of our less-active families
that asked if we would pray for the family right then because her sister was yelling
and screaming and going nuts in their house right then. We immediately
got down a said a prayer. We got up and we hoped that everything was
alright. We later got a text asking if we could come over and give a
blessing. They don't like getting help from the ward people so we have to
help them out with everything. We said “yes,” and we called President
Miller to see if we could go. But he
didn't answer. We then called the AP's, and they didn't answer. We
then called the Zone Leaders because no one was answering. They normally
can't give permission to do things after 9:30, but in this situation they
could. They told us to go and send them a text when we returned home.
We set off in the dark in our car to their home, which is a trailer. We
pulled up, and it seriously could have been a scene out of a horror film.
We took this long walk up to the trailer, and all we could hear was
screaming. We knocked on the door, they opened it, and all we heard was
screaming, and it was nuts. We just sat outside because we were like, “What
do we do?” Do we go in or what? Soon the mom came out, and she
walked us away from the trailer. We talked to her about everything that
was going on. It was all in Spanish so I
couldn't pick up a lot of what they were saying. I picked up that the
girl had popped different pain meds, and she was pretty much tripping out in
the trailer. She wanted to trip, so she popped them. We realized we
couldn't give her a blessing because she was being super aggressive, so we said
a prayer with the mom and left. We got home around 10:20, and we were
like, “What was going on in that house?” It was crazy, and the girl who
was tripping was my age. It was nuts. We later learned she fell
asleep around 1 am. That was an adventure.
Margarita didn't show up to
church again this week. She told us on Sunday that she isn't ready to be
baptized and that her date is coming too soon. We were going to drop her
because she isn't putting forth enough effort, but we held on to her for
another week. She doesn't know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and
everything so we asked if she would pray, and she said “yes.” So
hopefully she does and still progresses to baptism. We couldn't get in
contact with Jesus this week. Every time we would go over he wasn't
there. So hopefully this week he is home when we go by. Cecilia,
the lady who is going through a divorce, had an eventful week. We have
been trying to get in contact with her this week to see if we could come
over. She kept telling us she was busy. We didn't know if she didn’t
want us to come over and stuff. We were trying to figure her out.
On Sunday we got a text that said she was coming to church and hopefully her kids
would come too. We were stoked when we read that text. We showed up
to church, and she didn't come. We asked her if she was close, and she
told us she had to deal with her kids and future ex-husband. We asked if
we could go to her house around 7:30 and she said sure. So last night we
stopped by, and it was such a good lesson. Elder Mason shared Joseph
Smith’s vision experience, and he told her to pay attention to her
feelings. I felt the spirit so strong. It’s crazy how just a
paragraph telling that experience can bring the spirit in. We continued with
the lesson, and she stopped us and asked if she could share what she
felt. We didn't think to ask her and just thought we should carry on with
it. She told us she felt like she was hugged from the back and felt a
warming sensation in her arms. It showed to me that this church is true
and the Holy Ghost is truly there. It was such an awesome
experience. She also told her friends at work that she was sent two
angels, and that was us. She is such a good investigator. I hope
she gets baptized. It’s awesome. But
that was our week with our investigators.
Oh, I have one more funny
story. On Saturday we were out in the boondocks where all the farms are.
We had to get back to the house of the President of our branch for a
party. We plugged in his address, and we were going where the GPS told us.
It soon told us to go down this dirt road. We went down it, and at the
end of it there was a gate that was locked. So we were like, “What do we
do?” We were kind of lost, and the GPS
wasn't helping. We soon went off-roading in a Toyota Corolla. It
was epic. I was laughing my head off. Elder Barnes, Elder Mason,
and I were having so much fun. We were driving on roads that were nuts,
and we were not in a car that could handle it. The new Elder was tripping
and was like, “We should head back!”, but nope, we kept on going. We were going through farm fields that were
empty, driving through small dirt roads, and we even almost had to rally
an empty river. We finally got there, we saved miles on the car, and it
was so epic. It was a lot of fun.
But that is my week for
you. I haven't received the one package you sent yet, but I got the one
that was at the mission home. We had zone training this week, and they
brought all the mail down. So you timed that right. I am bummed the
Packers lost, but guess what? I caught a glimpse of the game at our dinner
appointment, so I was happy about that. Mexico plays USA this week, so
that is going to be nuts down here. The Narrows hike sounded so much fun,
and I am jealous. I am going to get the other package today, so thanks
for sending it. You guys are
awesome! Have an awesome week, and just know you guys are always in my
prayers! I can't wait to hear from you again! Love you tons and miss
you!
Con mucho amor,
-Elder Smith
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