Dear home,
For starters, this week was
transfer week, but elder Fellows and I
stayed together in Lincoln Heights.
There were quite a few changes
throughout the mission, but not
really in our zone. Elder Ramos,
mijito, got called to be a zone
leader in El Monte! Pretty crazy! He
is in the other Spanish stake in
our mission now, so I probably won't
see him as much. President seems to
be getting rid of all the old guys
one by one. I think it's to make
sure that the new mission president
has good, young people in
leadership by the time he gets here so we
can help him know what's going on.
Nothing too crazy or out of the
norm happened this week. Jose S. Is
still doing awesome and is
progressing very well. He missed general
conference, but he watched like
half of it on his own and said he is
going to finish it soon. And he's
been taking a lot of notes while
watching. We went over his house
the other day and we sat on his couch
and all of a sudden he got really
embarrassed. We asked him why and he said it was because he had a gun
behind the couch we were sitting on
hahah.
He told us how he has given
up we pretty hard drugs since he's
met us, but still smokes the green
every once in a while, but wants to
stop. He is super sincere and doing
awesome. I think if I had met him
a year ago, or if anyone saw him
without knowing him, they would not
really have a lot of hope in him.
Heck, I don't think a lot of people
would have trusted him, knowing
where he is coming from.
But the cool thing about being a missionary is
that a lot of times we are the only
people that believe in these people
of east LA, or wherever it may be.
So it is always really cool seeing
who we meet and help.
I don't think I've mentioned Rosy
before. On my first day in Lincoln
Heights, we met this lady named
Rosy, who let us come by. We thought
she was an investigator, but it
turned out that she is an inactive
member from forever ago. But she
has been helping us a lot and we have helped her get back to activity.
Every time she comes to church, she pays her tithing hahah. And she
always gives us money!
They thing about people here is that they will
not let you not accept their money and they get pretty mad if we don't
take it... But we always take it
and end up hiding it in her stuff.
And she keeps doing our laundry
when we leave it to wash, even
though we tell her not to. But it seems
she won't stop no matter what we
say, so we've given up on making her
stop her charity hahah. She has
pretty much been our mom out here.
It's funny because she literally
knows everyone. We've taken her to
lessons sometimes and walked around
so she can tell us where her
friends are and she literally knows
everyone in Lincoln heights. So we
are helping her be a good
missionary as well so she can use that to
her advantage.
Vilma, the lady we found by me
using her bathroom, is doing awesome
as well. She has been going to
church, reading, and everything! So we
are very excited to see her
progress. We have found a lot more quality
people recently who are actually
willing to do their part. So that has
been fantastic.
Tell Jakob that we went penny
boarding all day so I am working on the
weight loss thing hahah. Cuz the
collars around my neck are starting
to get a little tight... Kamilla
and Valentina look a lot bigger!
That's awesome, love you all!
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