We´re coming off of a bit of a spiritual high from yesterday because we were able to get 3 new baptismal dates. The first two we got were these people named Ricardo and Maria. They are in their forties. They were a reference from a recent convert. They were really friendly with us, invited us in, gave us some Coke. We talked about lesson 1 and the BoM with them. It was a really good lesson, they asked us a lot of questions and talked to us about a lot of stuff. Near the end my comp looked at me and gave me the nod, except I didn´t know which nod it was. He mouthes the word baptism to me and I´m like oh crap, he wants me to invite them to be baptized. I was pretty nervous but I have the invitation memorized so I was able to do it. They thought about it, and their first reaction was obviously that they don´t feel ready yet and they want to know more. We explained that we knew they weren´t ready yet but we also knew they could be ready by the 23 of december. They agreed to prepare themselves. That night we met with an investigator named Franco that a member had brought to church the past two weeks. He had a lot of questions for us, some of which were really hard questions, and we tried to answer them the best we could. We taught him lesson 1 as well and gave him a BoM. We asked if he would be baptized on the 30 of december, and he also said he didn´t feel ready yet. But we assured him we would help him be ready and so he agreed to prepare for that day.
On Tuesday we went out to Rio Legre, which is the part of our area that is more out in the sticks. We found several new investigators out there. But we clapped this one house which was really more of just a shack looking thing out in the middle of nowhere. After we clapped we saw this guy open the curtain he used as a door, with a huge knife in his hand. He doesn´t say a word, only gestures with the knife for us to come in, then walks back inside. Me and my comp looked at each other for a second, then we just shrugged and decided to go in. I remember as I saw my comp walk through the curtain to the house, I had the thought that there was probably a 47% chance he was going to get stabbed. Well, we didn´t. Turns out he was just cutting up some tomatoes and onions. He had a movie with Matt Damon in it blaring on his TV, so we could barely hear each other. But we tried to talk to him a little about the BoM. I´m pretty sure there was about a 90% chance that he was super high. Either that or he was just a super chill guy, hard to tell. Anyway, I found the whole experience kinda funny.
I should probably tell you about Friday. I think it was about 4 in the afternoon, we had come back to our apartment to change so we could do some service. But we got a call from the person and she told us we would have to do it next week. Well that´s not really important to the story, but anyway I was running up the stairs to grab something. I don´t remember what. There is tile on our top step, and that´s the one I slipped on. I landed on my right shin right on the edge of the stair. My comp was down in the bathroom and he must have heard the thump. He asked if I was ok and I told him I´d be ok. I paced around our room trying to walk it out, it felt like it was bruised pretty bad. After a while I noticed my pants were sticking to my leg, and so I rolled them up and saw my leg was bleeding everywhere. I went downstairs and my comp came out of the bathroom and helped me clean up the blood. The wound looked nothing like I was expecting. It´s like a circular hole in my shin, kinda looks like a bullet wound or something. I have no idea how, we went and looked at the stairs and didn´t find anything that would have done that. Anyway it wouldn´t stop bleeding so we just taped some gauz (no idea how to spell that) to my leg and called it good. We had a lesson to get to. Well when we got back at the end of the day after walking a ton, the gauz was soaked so we took it off, and we put some rubbing alcohol in it, which stung, and then put another bandage on it. The bleeding didn´t really stop until today, although it´s still oozing a little. But it is getting better. I got some pretty good pictures of it, looks like I got shot or something.
Thursday night, a little while before we went to bed my comp reminded me that it was Thanksgiving. I had completely forgotten. I decided to eat one of the bag of Hi Chews I still had to celebrate. They were really tasty.
To answer mom´s question, I´m not supposed to recieve packages. There´s a good chance they´ll never get here, and if they do then I have to pay for the value of the stuff inside or something like that. Also, to answer your question about how much I cook, the answer is not much. The members here are amazing. They pass around a calendar each sunday to sign up to have meals with us. We have lunch pretty much every day with members. Some days we even have dinner. Breakfast is usually the only meal we have to worry about each day. I´ve mostly been eating eggs, probably too much eggs haha. I´ll usually scramble up about 7 eggs to eat each day. I eat cereal quite a bit too.
I already know I´ve forgotten to write some stuff but I need to be done. Hope you have a great week.
-Elder Shelton
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