March 21, 2011

Hola Familia, I had a pretty dang good week and had some good learning and pondered on some stuff. You truely learn who you are out here and you develope a ton! It's pretty interesting. My Ribs are feeling great and my comp and I are doing good with our companionship. We both like to do things our way, but we end up coming up with something that we decide to do. I'll tell you a story that is pretty awesome. This week we had a day with appoinments every hour for proselyting and no one was home and every one wasn't letting us in to teach. Even contacts were rough. I was getting down on myself, and doubting my spanish,and just being negative. Then my comp stopped us and said, "lets contact these houses, and he had me do it. The first was a guy from Brazil and he said that they didn't have time, so we went to the house next door. It was this girl 23 ish years. We said, would you like to hear our message? She said yes right away and it was like a door smacked me in the face. I was way tired and when she said that, my eyes opened up way wide, and I was shocked! But way happy. We taught them and everything went way well,and were gonna teach her and her husband soon. Also we have another investigator, but she is in love with the Bible and doesn't want to read the Book of Mormon or accept it either, But we came to teach a family close by her house and she said "Elders pasan",which is come in. She seemed sad and I knew something was on her mind. So we went in and after awhile she lost it and was crying about her son who was killled by a drunk driver. She didnt think it was fair. So after awhile we asked if she wanted a blessing for comfort and she said yes right off the bat, and wanted me to give it to her. It felt way good and she was crying throughout it. But after I said amen, she seemed a lot better and wasn't crying anymore. It was very spiritual. Later that night we taught an investigator who is catholic, and he went to our church too. He asks a lot of questions he asked how sacrement goes, what all happens, what classes he will be in, and what they teach. It was pretty cool. He is coming to our FHE, more or less its tonight and all the missionaries in our zone with investigators are coming to watch a movie. So are some others, so it will be good. One last thing is that my talk I gave on Sunday went very well. I wrote 4 scriptures,and I can now give talks with confidence. The words come to me, and I receive inspiration. It's awesome I am not scarred anymore either to give them. It's a good feeling. You learn so much on a mission! It's legit. You build up a lot of strength and I have only started so I hope to progress more and more. I love you guys so much and wish you an awesome week. I got your "Dear Elders" and I will respond to them and your letters when I send new ones. I love you tons. The address is to the offices so its safe to send the packages there love Elder Christoffersen