This past week had some interesting
ups and downs, especially the weekend.
I will start with the ups:
The zone is doing really well and
it looks like we are going to meet our goals. I'm pretty sure we are the youngest
zone in the mission. The oldest two guys aren't leaving until August... Pretty
crazy! But it has been really fun to watch everyone progress and work towards
their goals, I am very excited for them!
Another cool thing that happened this
weekend was the finding of some awesome investigators. My parents are probably
not going to approve of how we found them, but what matters is that we found
them! We were going through some old potentials down a street we haven't been
down before. We knocked on the door and the potential wasn't there. The
apartment was all Chinese people too, so it wasn't very promising to begin
with. All of a sudden, I had a desperate urge to use the bathroom! We tried
knocking another door in the apartment, but an angry Chinese lady came out and
didn't let me use her bathroom. So we ran down a few houses and saw a younger
Hispanic guy working on his car in his driveway. So we asked him and he was
pretty cool and let me use his bathroom. He introduced us to his mom who was
cooking some "lengua," (tongue), very nice lady! We gave her our number and we
got a return appointment for a day later in the week. About an hour later, we
got a call from her telling us to come back because she wanted to give us some of the food she was cooking! Super nice lady.
We ended up teaching her on
Saturday night, she told us she has been praying for someone to come and help
her find "her church." She described her situation exactly like that
scripture that talks about how some people don't have the gospel because they
don't know where to find it. She has been listening to some Christian radio
thing for a while so she could learn, and next thing you know, we come up to
her door asking to use her bathroom! She ended up coming to church the next
day, bringing her daughter and daughter in law! So cool!
Unfortunately, one of our
investigators told us they don't want to "be Mormon," which really
stank. She was very close to baptism. We think some of her friends kind of
pressured her out of it, but we will see. We are planning to take her to the
temple for one last visit and let the spirit do its thing. But we will see! So
far everything has been going great. At times of the lows, there is always a
high to make things better. I am looking forward to this upcoming week and all
the great things ahead!
Love you all!!
P.S. And I woke up this morning to a
small earthquake. I woke up and my bed was shaking, I thought it was Elder Fellows
messing with me but he was dead asleep. But I was so tired I just fell back
asleep as my bed was shaking hahaha
oh and last thing! We are going to
be getting a new mission president the first of July. His name is Moises
Villanueva, he and his family are from Oaxaca, Mexico. This is one of the first
times, if not the first, that a president from a foreign country will be coming
to be a president in the United States! So exciting!! i'll send you a picture
of them really quick
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| With a member, East L.A. in the background |
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| With his new companion, Elder Fellows |
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| Morning Hike |
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