Week 9

Welp, another week!  I swear they are going by faster and faster!

Cool story about this week.  Last Sunday, we were walking around, and we were going to go visit this less active lady, who we have talked to a lot about coming back to church, and she sometimes comes. Anyway, we went to her house, but she was not home, which was a bummer.  But, I felt that we should go back on Tuesday, to talk to her.  Well, we came back on Tuesday, and lo and behold, she needed us. We talked with her, and she was going through a really rough time, and wanted a blessing, so we gave her one.  She said she had wanted to call us but just hadn’t and was really glad we showed up.  Another point for the spirit, guided us right to her and we helped her. 

On Thursday, we had splits, which were scary for me, because I don’t know this area, but it’s all ok.  In our area, we have a lot of little stairway walkpaths things and a ton of little streets.  It was a good day of splits, as we had a lot of meetings with less actives and investigators.  We talked to some guy about the church while we were just walking around, and it was cool, but the guy was a bit crazy, and would keep changing the subject if we tried to ask him what he believed.  Apparently he thought that we believed that Jesus Christ was a liar, and I was really confused.  But it ended up being good.  And we went and gave a blessing to another member on the splits.  It was pretty sweet!  So far all I do is just the first part of the blessing for the sick.  I get too nervous for the actual blessing part, but I think I will get to do one soon.  

And on Friday, we were buying some food because the guy for our dinner apparently doesn’t like to cook and gave us some money to buy stuff to cook.  But it’s funny because they are people who are mad when they are left out of the missionary feeding schedule, because apparently it’s a huge deal in our barrio to feed the missionaries.  So we were in line at a super market, and these two guys in front of us kept looking at us really weird, and eventually one of them started talking to us. He asked if we were from a church, and we said yes. Then he asked if we believed in prayer, and we said yes. Then he gave my companion two dollars. Kinda loco. 

One of the members in our ward brought a friend to church, and we are going to go teach her on Wednesday, and we have three more really good references.  One of the families was taking the lessons, had a firm baptism date, and then the missionaries, for some reason, never returned, so tomorrow we are going to go with a member and talk to them. A good week, but it was a bit hard.  But hey, the work is never going to easy, but it’s worth it. I hope you all have a great and blessed week!