Hola!
Hey thanks for updating the blog!! And for doing all this
BYU stuff! I really appreciate it!
OK so this week was great. Kind of. Well so New Years we
didn't really sleep at all because our neighbors are party animals and were
blasting loud music all night and they were burning this viejo [old man] which is like a
tradition that they do here where they make this life-size stuffed old man and
fill it with fireworks and sit him on a chair, and then at midnight, they burn
him. And its SOO LOUD! I'll send a pic of it. We took a video too but I don't
know if it will go through. It represents like the past year dying or
something, but I think it's just a fun thing they invented to keep the
missionaries from sleeping...haha
So then we ate way delicious food on New Years day and
a TON of it too! Mexicans are so generous and just give us so much food. Our
fridge has never been so full. But the best part of the week was not until the
end. In fact, we really had like a horrible week in the way of numbers. or so
we thought! It seemed like every day we were just walking and walking and not
teaching anyone! But on Saturday I think it was, we both got back from
divisions and just decided to really focus and stop speaking English, because we
had a real problem with that 'cause we always just spoke in English and joked
around and stuff, but we decided to just cut it out and speak only Spanish. So
we were doing that, and we started fasting on Saturday for the Lord to bless us with at least the investigators who we are teaching at church, because that's
been a real problem too. But guess how many investigators showed up at church...
10.
I have never had TEN investigators in church in one day before, That's
insane!!!!!!! And they were all like families!!!!! Manuel (our recent convert)
brought his daughter and his son in law and the grandkids who have never let us
teach them before and were never interested but they just decided to come to
church one day to check it out and they loved it!!!!!!!!! Also this random
couple who we met literally the day before came with one of their neighbors!
Literally, we saw them in the street and we were like "hey wanna come to
church tomorrow?" and they were like "yeah!" and we picked them
up and they totally came! And I'm not 100% sure that they were not drinking a
very short time before, but they said they loved church and they even told us
that they want to get married there and get baptized and everything!!! So that
was way cool. Also, our coolest investigator right now is Rosi, and she's the
mom of a recent convert of the elders, named Roger. And she's WAY COOL!! The
first time we met her she was like "my son has changed so much, before he
was so rude and he drank and had problems with his wife but then they met the
elders and got married and baptized and now he knows God and I want to do all
that too so I can set an example for my other kids!" And we asked her to
get baptized and she was like "I will do absolutely whatever I need to to
feel clean before God!" We're hoping for her baptism the 17th of January.. Pray for her!!! Also, pray for her grandkids (Monserrat and Antonio)
and Charlie Chan, and Manuel's family (Luis, Fatima, Briget, and Kenneth) and Wendy and Manuel (yes another one..) and Carla. thank you:)
Well I have to go now but I love you all dearly and
hope you are all well!!
HS
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