Monday, August 15, 2011

August 8, 2011

Holas Familia,

This week was really quite pathetic. 
     
     On monday I bought a cell phone battery to put into my new music player. I later found out that you aren´t supposed to charge the player with the battery inside. You are supposed to charge it only in a phone. So the battery exploded. It didn´t brake it just expanded and when I pulled it out it started sparking. It was interesting and now I know that if something has instructions in English you better follow them.
 
     Tuesday we taught a part member family. The guy is like 20 and the girl, who isn´t a member is 17. They both are good, but what I want to know is why didn´t he marry one of the members. There is an overexessive amount of member girls and no priesthood, So why didn´t he just marry one of them? Anyways we taught Janet and she was really receptive. We didn´t invite her to be baptized though. Maybe next time. While we were out and about my companion felt prompted to visit a family who we haven´t seen in a while because of their crazy schedules. We found Aldo at his house with a broken wrist. He crashed on his moto on Saturday only two days ago. I hope our visit helped him out. Later in the week he had surgery and 5 screws were put in his arm. It´ll take about 6 months to heal, so he won´t be playing the guitar for a while. He hasn´t red the Book of Mormon yet and I doubt he´ll ever accept the Gospel, but I hope we can help him out for future reference.

     Wednesday the only lesson we taught was to a Less active family. We spent literally 2 hours of talking to people that basically want nothing to do with us. Man this area is tough.
 
     Thursday was better. We taught a lesson to a couple named Soraida and Ruben. Ruben was willing to "hear", but he didn´t really "listen" and he got absolutely nothing out of it. Soraida, even though she was taking care of a walking baby and a very demanding little girl, learned a lot. I´m pretty sure she understands almost everything except for the importance of the prophet Joseph Smith. She thinks his vision was a cool example of how God answers prayers. Which is good, but imagine how much she could learn if we had her full attention. She even understood how to pray just from looking at the pamphlet and helped her husband say the last prayer. It was cool. Later we found a family in a semi chuchi house. They look dirt poor though and only the dad speaks Spanish. It was interesting, but the other days when we passed by they all hid from us. So much for the baptismal date we gave them.

     Friday was interesting. So we taught a family who we contacted before, the husband wouldn´t and the wife wouldn´t commit. She blatently told us that she couldn´t give us a return appointment because that would be a commitment and she has her own religion, so she can´t do that. She said she would read the pamphlet, but she wouldn´t commit to pray about it. Because of that lesson we were 20 minutes late to another appointment with our Progressing Investigators, Luciano and Hermania Cabañas. They were waiting outside for us and I felt kinda bad that we were late, but I´m pretty darn sure that they are going to get baptized.
 
     Saturday sucked. It was another day of contacting people that dislike us. ¿What did we do? Anyways we got 0 lessons in.

     Sunday was better because we had 36 people show up for church. It´s funny because the one time the Brach President can´t come and we get good attendance. We broke fast at the house and passed up eating with Hna.P to get to work right away. We cranked out 3 lessons with Hno.Foltz, but unfortunately none of them were promising. The first lesson was to a lady who is an Eternigator from Encarnacíon. The second was with a Menos Activo family whose dad was drunk, and their grandpa (who is also an Eternigator) really only understands Guarani. The last one was to a family who´s mom had a cerebral hemmrige. We gave her a blessing and then taught the Plan of Salvation. It was my first time actually doing the blessing instead of just the anointing. The family listened, but it will be hard to help the dad progress because he believes all the religions are true.
     Unfortunately after 3 lessons with member all our other plans fell through. So I made fried Ramen at Hna.P´s house cuz we skipped out on lunch. Man this area is tough. We are basically reopening it.

Anyways. Love Ya´ll,
Elder Zachary James Singson

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