Okay.
Cambios. Elder B** left and I stayed. I am just a regular missionary
still. I am not training nor am I DL. My comp is Elder M**. He is
from Peru. He only speaks a little English so we basically just speak inS panish though I am helping him with his English.
Scripture
for the week: 2 Nephi 31:10 Take notice of the word "Willing" What
does that mean? We can only follow Jesus Christ when we are WILLING to
keep the commandments. That means that we not only need to obey the
commandments but we also need to WANT to obey the commandments. Remember
that we will be judged according to our works and the desires of our
hearts. If our hearts aren't in it then we won't receive all of the
blessings that come from keeping the commandments.
Okay,
funny story for this week. We were looking for a menos activo [less active] and when
we yelled at the house a lady came out. Ya....she was super crazy and
super Catholic. We ended up talking to her for about an hour because she
wouldn't let us leave! During the whole conversation she barely let us
talk and when we did talk she would cut us off when we said something
that wasn't Catholic - so basically we were listening to her preach to us
for an hour. She jumped topics a lot too. One of the topics was infant
baptism. According to her people need to be baptized by immersion unless
it's a baby. If you're baptizing a baby a few drops of water is
sufficient. Okay? Oh, and apparently Jesus was standing in between me and
my comp shaking his head and asking what we were doing. After about the
6th time trying to leave I just started baring my testimony. Of course
she tried to interrupt me because what I was saying she didn't agree
with. Well, I just kept on talking and then she asked if I was going to
let her speak. Was she going to let me finish? Haha after that she asked
me for my testimony and I thought, "didn't I just give you my
testimony?" Apparently not. She wanted my life story. She wouldn't even
let me finish that. Oh, apparently my eyes are full of sadness because
she is the 2nd person that had told me that (the 1st was also a crazy
lady that is now in a mental hospital) and everything will be better if I
just cry.....okay? At the end, after trying to leave about 12 times
before I finally just said "Yo sé que El Libro de Mormón es verdadero y
sé que un día usted va a saber lo mismo [I know that the book of Mormon is true and I know that one day you will know the same]" then we walked away.......and
down the road there was a dead guy. No joke. He was either dead or
almost dead. We have no idea what happened.
Love you all. Welcome home Mecham. Have fun being an awkward RM ;)
Till next week
Elder Groneman
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| Elder M** and Elder Groneman |
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