Derik 5/22/2017

Crispin made it to Church! He only attended the wrong church 3 times before he made it to ours, and he loved it. He participated a lot in Gospel principles, sang even though he said he doesn't have the voice for it, talked to a lot of the members, and just loved the feeling of being there. He said "I don't know, a lot of these things are pretty familiar and a lot arent, I just feel like a baby." Which when we asked him about it was a good thing. He can be baptized on the 4th, but our hazel doesn't have a font so we are kind of worried he will end up going to the wrong guy church on accident and getting baptized there (You know they would be willing to) so we are planning really well.

So apparently chapels that have been the victims of arson have their fonts removed. Just in case you wanted to know. Thought that was interesting.

We helped the Hernandez Casas family clean out their party bus. It had bags and boxes of old clothing and random junk in it. Imagine if mom had bought each of her daughter's a seperately supply of clothes, and as soon as they grew out of it (or didn't wear something for a month) it went into storage. You'd end up with a lot of random stuff, and that was definitely the case here. We finally met the dad of the family, dudes super nice, wanted to know how offerings work, who pays tithing, how much, who talks, is the clergy paid, what do we believe about revelation in our day, what do we believe about the PoMoMo (a book that was apparently discovered with the dead sea scrolls), what makes us different, why do we believe in the book of mormon, what do we think about prophets, why we think we are right and everyone else is wrong, why we can be right, do we believe in saints, do we keep the 10 commandments, and well, the list goes on. Dudes awesome. 

A kid named Dominic that we teach never wants us to leave. He's 12, and apparently we're like his best friends, which is cool. He had me help him spray paint a rock gold, and today we're supposed to help him turn another rock into a fidget spinner. It has a hole in the middle that goes halfway through already that seems to be naturally formed, which is pretty unique. It's also a triangle shape.

The English elders had an emergency transfer, where they are now separated and with 2 different pairs of zone leaders. Don't know what happened, but president told us that we can't go to Poggy's house anymore, so it probably had something to do with them spending too much time there. Now we have to pay to wash clothes again🙁. To make matters worse, today is Poggy's birthday, and I don't think the English elders told him that we aren't allowed to go to his house anymore, so we are going to have a really not fun conversation with him on his birthday now😢.

We helped a 17 year old kid build a catapult on Wednesday, which was pretty fun. It took a couple of hours, and we haven't seen if it works yet. It was his physics project, and we got to talk to him a little about what we do and the gospel while we served him. His name is Mark Lam, although he's actually Mexican and so are his parents so that last name is kind of weird. He's a fungi.

I'm apparently also completely healed in the shoulder department. My body is just going to hurt for a while because I have traumatized nerves. So my right hand just hurts whenever I use it, and my shoulder gets tender by the end of the day and I can put my bag on it. I stil, can't kneel, the liquid hasn't moved. But apparently I'm completely healed now which is good.

That appears to be all folks. Till next time.

Oh, put gospel library in Spanish, go to videos, then click on mormon beliefs, and watch the video. You will not be disappointed. It's great even if you don't understand it.