However, the past 24 hours was the worst by far. It was fast sunday yesterday, but we had a commitment with some of our investigators that we would bring breakfast to their house and eat with them and then go to church together. We´ve done this a few times because it´s about the only way to get investigators to go to church. So anyway we decided we would start fasting after our lunch we had with members. Well I´m here to tell you that it was not a fun 24 hours haha. We were out working all sunday afternoon and evening and it was a hot one. Pretty much non-stop sweating and walking. We got so thirsty. My mouth and throat felt like sandpaper. The good news is you don´t really realize how hungry you are because you´re so thirsty. I also found it funny that in my personal study this morning I read a little out of Jesus the Christ and happened to be at the part where Jesus fasted for 40 days and was tempted by Satan. After that, we went to our dristict meeting, where an Elder had brought 3 huge plates of the most delicious brownies I´ve ever seen. It was a pretty big tempation and I was reminded of what I read in the morning. We were able to resist somehow haha. Finally when we got back from the meeting and before we came to the ciber for emails we said a prayer to break our fast. I didn´t even eat anything afterwards, I just downed about a liter of water. I´m feeling a lot better now.
Some good news, Gabriela, one of our investigators, passed her baptismal interview on Wednesday and we´re planning on having the baptism this saturday, although it might have to be moved to the next saturday because the parents want to be there and they don´t know for sure if they can get work off this saturday. So if it ends up happening this saturday I´ll try to send pictures next monday. Also she said she wants me to baptize her so I guess I´ll be the one doing it.
A couple days ago we passed by our bishop´s house and he happened to be outside so we talked with him for a little bit. As we were leaving he asked when he could go out and work with us. We were kinda surprised so were just told him whenever he wanted to really. He told us he wanted to on sunday. So yesterday we met up with him and went out and worked. He served a mission in I think Chile, and he definitely knew what he was doing. We contacted a ton of people, and he is really good at telling people how it is. We stopped by this one guy sitting on the side of the street who was high on marijuana. We had a lesson with him right there and the bishop straight up called him to repentance and got him to commit to read the book of mormon and come to church next sunday. We got some new investigators thanks to him haha. He speaks with such conviction that the people can´t deny him. I´m pretty sure he could get anybody he talked with to be baptized. We definitely learned a lot from him.
Like I said, I´ve been reading in Jesus the Christ, and man does that book have a lot of stuff in it. One thing I read in it this week that I found really cool was that Jesus was not born with a perfect knowledge. He had the veil of forgetfullness placed on Him too. He had to learn line upon line, precept upon precept, recieve grace for grace, until He recieved a perfect knowledge of all things. It is the exact same way we learn. We can learn line upon line until one day we too can have a perfect knowledge. It just takes us a lot longer because we stumble and slip along the way.
I feel like I´m forgetting something but I can´t remember what so I guess that´s it. Hopefully you guys don´t freeze to death, and I´ll try to not get heat stroke. And hopefully the next time I write I´ll have had my first baptism.
-Elder Shelton
Also to answer mom´s question, our other two roomates are Elder Chamberlain from Colorado and Elder Kindt from Utah.
Gotta go to lunch now which I´m pretty excited for because I´m starving.
PPS: I forgot one more funny story. We had interviews with President on Tuesday. Ours was supposed to be at 6:30, but we got a text that president had arrived late and all the interviews were pushed behind by an hour and a half. So we took a bus to the chapel and got there at around 8. There was still a line of about 8 elders in front of us. So we sat and waited for a long time. I played the piano for quite a while. We were the last ones to go and we didn´t finish our interviews until 11:30 at night. We were so tired. President apologized for having us out so late and he gave us a ride in his car to our pension. Side not, that was the first time I´ve felt AC in a long time. But anyway, he could tell we were really tired so he gave us permission to sleep in an extra 30 minutes in the morning haha.
It was a really great interview though. He is an awesome person, really calm and relaxed, but very enthusiastic about missionary work.
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