Dear home,
This week we had some pretty cool
things happen. We started off with two exchanges back to back.
On the first one, I stayed with a
missionary who is a few months younger than me. We had a pretty
fun day.
Something cool that happened was when we were looking for
someone we had set up an appointment with. They lived in the back, but
weren't there. We decided to knock on the front neighbors door and
before we could really explain who we were, the lady let us right in and
told us to teach her kid. So that's what we did! He turned out
to be a pretty cool 17 year old guy who is going through a rough spot
at the moment due to his brother being deported to Mexico. We also
taught her cousin who was there and she was really cool. It's not every
day that we get let into a house just like that and get to teach
some cool people! We talked to the mom a different day, one on one, and
she told us that she is really trying to help her son gain faith in God
and be happy again. So it made a little more sense of why she let us
in without hesitation. We are pretty excited to continue to help
them, though.
The second exchange, I went to
Azusa, which is right by Arcadia. It felt like I wasn't too far from
home. I ate at Wendy's for the first time in a very long time! But
anyways, we had a pretty good day. The missionary I was with has a bit of
a dominating personality, but it was pretty fun and we found a lot
in common. He came out with me and will be leaving with me as well.
We had something really cool happen
later in the week as well. About a week and a half ago, we were
walking from a recent converts house, and this little chubby kid came out of
his house and waved at us saying
hi. We told him we would come back
in a few days, but kinda forgot about it in those days. Again, we
walked from the recent convert's house and the same kid came out, waving us down.
We decided to go and talk to him a bit more this time. As we talked
with him, his mom came out and talked with us as well.
It turned out,
that one of her good friends is an investigator in the same ward, but
the area next to us. We set up an appointment to come by and teach
her individually. We walked up for the appointment to initially tell
them we were going to get a man (the recent convert down the street) and
before we even got to the door, the little kid opened the door
telling us to come in haha. So we ran over to Omar's house (recent convert)
only to see him just woken up and not really wanting to go...
After some pushing and pulling, he got dressed and came with us a bit
hesitantly.
But the lesson turned out awesome. Jeannette (the lady)
shared her testimony of how she knows God is there for her and the spirit
was super strong. She has a bit of a problem with the word of wisdom
and I think she has suffered a lot from those addictions, but she has
a lot of desire to change and be better. I think the best was, when
she said that she got baptized in a Christian church, but didn't
change. But now she wants to. The spirit was so awesome she started crying.
After the lesson, Omar said he was glad he ended up coming with us,
and he felt bad that he was being hesitant about it haha. It all pays
off in. The end. Thanks for everything! I still haven't gotten
the package, I will probably get it tomorrow when I go to the office.
Love you!,
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