January 5, 2015

Well, happy new year.

This week was pretty difficult, too, because I learned that until the 7th, almost everyone will not have returned from vacations.

But, really great news! The inactive guy we talked with about serving a mission came back to church and stayed for the whole thing! He is talking to the bishop about changing his life, and everything is going phenomenally with him. He invited us to come to his house on Tuesday for Rosca de Reyes, which is when you get together with your friends and eat a really huge donut--at least I am pretty sure that is what it is. We shall see.

Unfortunately our investigators felt they could not come due to: 1st, their visitors and needing to attend to their needs; 2nd, the amount of work they had due to the malos threatening their lives if they did not have this many tables made by monday; and 3rd, arrived home from vacations in the morning and were extremely tired.

Oh, before I forget, we had a really fun lesson yesterday. We were walking down a street and a car stops and the driver yells out at us, Hey! What are you guys doing? (This is approximate because it was Spanish.) So we went to talk to him; it is so much easier when people take an interest in you after all. When we looked over, it is a car with tinted windows and 4 men inside smoking marijuana and staring at us. Well, we walk over, and at this point we can see that they are packing. The driver and the person at his side had grenade launchers. Can you imagine this? I did not know what to do. But you know what? The driver wanted to hear what we had to say. We taught him the lesson of who God is, the trinity, and how they work together. They asked when we had services so that they could come. We did not try to give them baptismal dates, because we did not feel it would be right. Also, they would probably not be able to pass the baptismal interview. But we shall see. Very interesting that. Also turns out they know some of the members that we are helping right now. We are praying to know what to do about them. Because I was pretty much dumbstruck when they talked to us.

In other news, people have started coming back from their vacations. That is really great, because that means that we can talk to more people! We did quite a bit of contacting this week, but due to the season almost all of them were visiting family, and as a result we passed their information to the elders that pertain to their area.

My first comp is on probation because he had movies. I never saw said movies. That astounded me. How can you hide things from someone you spend all day with everyday? Or maybe I am just really obstinately oblivious. I do not know.

I am pretty happy about the new year. This should be exciting.

Well, next week.

Saludos, Amor, y Todo que puedo ofrecer a tí,
Salutations, Love, and All that I have to offer you,

Elder Scott