Dear home,
This week went well. We focused a lot on finding and we
were able to
find a lot and set up a lot of future appointments. I
got to go on
exchanges with the Assistants this week as well. I
stayed in my area
with Elder Mancia for the third time! I think he just
really wants to
be my companion at this point hahaha.
Later in the week,
I went on exchanges with Elder Chapman and Marchan, I went with
chapman in his area. Their are covers Arcadia, Monrovia, Duartr, etc..
In total, they
cover the equivalent of 5 English wards, a Chinese ward,
and a Samoan
ward. So their era his huge and white, it still is kind
of weird to me
baptized be and work in places like that haha.
This week, we got to teach Rigo about every other day.
It is really
fascinating to see how the Spirit works on him. Like I
mentioned in my
last email, even though he believes in the Santa Muerte
and all that
stuff, he is very spiritually sensitive. Every time we
talk with him,
he always tells us how much he feels the spirit and how
"he sees
something in our eyes." But at the same time, I
think the adversary
knows about his spiritual sensitivity because he always
tells us of
these crazy, devilish, spiritual experiences. We
explained to him how
when he disobeys the commandments, he opens the door for
satan to come
in and do stuff like that. It's been interesting to
teach him lately.
This past district meeting, we focused on Christ-like
attributes and
too the attribute test. At the beginning of my mission,
faith and hope
were the lowest and charity/patience the highest. But
this past week,
it was completely opposite. I don't know why my charity
and patience
has decreased, probably because I have to deal with
complaining and a
bunch of situations now, but that is what I want to work
on now. And I
think teaching Rigo is really helping me develop that
more. At times,
it gets a bit fuzzy on how the atonement can really
apply to people.
How it can really bring light into our lives. How it can
help us come
closer to Him. How it can change people's hearts. But
something about
his situation has been helping me open up my heart more
and understand
that more. He really wants to change and be baptized,
but it is only
through the atonement that he is going to be able to
unlock the chain
and ball that satan has placed on him. He realizes now
that all this
SM stuff is bad, but he's a bit afraid to take the leap
and just get
rid of it. Apparently, some pretty crazy stuff happens
of you get rid
of it. So he is going to talk to some SM priest to see
how he can get
rid of it. Also, he works on Sundays, but has been
really on top of it
at work to get those days off. Hopefully he will be free
on Sundays
soon.
We are still working with Claudia and Sam to be baptized
pretty soon.
They are so close, but the mom is still holding them
back a bit. So
tonight we are having the last lesson we need to teach
them and see
what happens. One of her biggest doubts has been that
she doesn't know
enough, when in reality she does. We are pretty anxious
to have the
lesson with them tonight.
This week we will have interviews with President
Villanueva, pretty
excited for that. So far, so good. Love you all!
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