March 14, 2011

Here are the updates on the people I told you to fast for. First was Alejandro, he had problems with the Word of Wisdom or WOW for all you Warcraft nerds out there. The keyword in that last sentence is had. Yes he has stopped smoking completely since Wednesday and Drinking for two weeks. He has really made progress and if things go according to plan he is going to get baptized this Saturday. He is buying candy, and more clothes instead of beer and cigarettes. His wife came back to live with him as of Saturday. At first we thought it was just some woman, but we had already taught him the law of chastity so we were like "What?" But then he came outside and said "My Wife came back!" He is doing so well. He has read a lot of the Book of Mormon and even more of the Gospel Doctrine book. He understands and remembers more when he reads it.

     As for Alex, Karina, Yrani, and Nestor it´s not going so well. They just have so many doubts and they want us to resolve them all before they want to believe. It´s really hard and I´m not sure what to do to help them. We taught Nestor by himself yesterday and he said that he read a little bit, didn´t want to read more because "It is the same as the Bible, so I just have to read the Bible." We explained to him the importance of the Book of Mormon, which we have done 20 times already, but... and then we committed him to studying and praying about it. He said he would. Karina has read the entire Book of Mormon and she isn´t convinced. She doesn´t believe that Mormon was a prophet, but maybe the rest were. Alex wants to know when Elias will come to visit the modern day prophet. Yrani wants to know who the 144,000 soldiers from the Bible were. She doesn´t think Joseph Smith was a prophet because he didn´t tell the future and when the second coming is. It´s very chaotic in all the lessons we have taught them. They all have a desire to learn, but right now they need to drink milk, but all they are trying to do is devour meat. They can´t handle it.

     Reuben never came to church and he thinks he is getting answers from his, so he isn´t interested anymore. We are trying to teach him one last time, but he is never home.

     Sergio Brega recently had a baby and so he isn´t home, but I think he´s just avoiding us. We see people´s shadows, but nobody answers the door.

     David Insauralde moved.

Random Tidbits.     

Yesterday it was really windy and cold. Yay! I like the cold. I actually was able to sleep with a blanket for once. While we were in a lesson with an investigator he little kid pooped his pants and he wasn´t wearing a diaper, so it fell straight on the ground. The dad didn´t do anything about it until after the prayer because the spirit was too strong. I feel really sick right now. I´m probably going to throw up. Actually I know I´m going to throw up I´m just waiting for it to happen. If I use one Q-tip every other day I will run out exactly the last day of my mission.

It´s changes this week so I won´t be able to write againg till next thursday. And I´m out of time, so...

Love Ya´ll,

Elder Zachary James Singson