Well it´s been another week. I guess I´ll get right to it and start off with one of the coolest experiences I´ve had so far.
It was wednesday night, about 7:30 and already starting to get dark. It was also raining. We had just left a house of an investigator and were about to go down this one road but then my comp said we should go down a different road. For some reason that sounded like a good idea to me, so we did. We were walking really fast because we were trying to get to Karina´s house for dinner at 8, and we were trying not to get completely soaked. After a while of walking we suddenly heard somebody say something to us as we walked by. My first thought was that it was just another drunk guy and I was pretty tired of talking with them and we didn´t have time. But when we turned around and saw the guy sitting on the ground by his gate, I instantly knew this guy needed help. We crouched down next to him and we listened. We learned his name is Juan. He is struggling to know his purpose. He asked us ¨¿Qué es la vida?¨. He said he goes to work, pulls out money from the bank, spends money, and repeat. He wanted to know the purpose of it. He said he has everything he needs, a job, money, etc, but he felt so empty inside and thinks there must be something more. He said he was tired, but not physically, he was tired in his alma. Like there was a hole inside of him that needed to be filled. He was sitting outside because he had just had a fight with his family and was told to leave and not come back until he calmed down. Turns out he was seriously thinking about killing himself, but while he was sitting there he saw us walk by and cried out to us in one last desperate hope. We talked to him a lot about the plan of salvation and shared a bit of our testimonies with him. He kept apologizing for keeping us out in the rain and getting our stuff wet, but we assured him that this is what we´re here for. He was overcome with emotion after we talked with him for a bit, and we could some happiness in his eyes. We gave him a book of mormon and a plan of salvation pamphlet and he said he is excited to read them. He was so grateful that we stopped to talk with him. It was an amazing experience. We stopped by the pensh on the way to dinner and we immediately went upstairs and wrote about it in our journals. On the way to dinner we talked about how many tiny little decisions we had to make that day to end up in that one street at that exact time. It´s pretty unbelievable. Well long story short, we weren´t able to find him again until last night. We had another great lesson with him. He says he can feel peace when we talk with him and he has already read quite a bit in the book of mormon. I think he´ll definitely get baptized but I probably won´t be here to see it.
So on thursday our zone had a competition to see who could do the most baptismal invitations that day. (The invitation has to include a specific date). Well pretty much all of our citas fell that day so we spent most of the day inviting people to be baptized the 17 of march. Long story short we ended up doing 32 invitations. The daily goal is to do 12, so 32 was quite a bit. Well we ended up winning and our reward was we got to pick our own hashtag that the zone leaders would put at the end of every text message that they sent to the zone. We chose
#InvitenaTodosaSerBautizadosParaQueUstedesPuedanLlegarASerComoAbramsyShelton.
Well, the zone leaders told us that was too long so we had to choose a shorter one haha.
I forgot to mention that on tuesday we had a party in Ramós Mejía with almost the whole mission to celebrate our 93 baptisms in February. There was a lot of games, like volleyball, soccer, basketball, and ping pong. It turns out I still have my ping pong skills. After we ate lunch and we watched Kung Fu Panda 3. It was in english for some reason, which was kinda weird, but I´m not complaining.
Alrighty I could say a lot more but I´m about out of time. Have a good week everybody!
-Elder Shelton
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