Me Quedo
So yeah transfers are tomorrow but I will be staying. I kinda figured I would be so I can finish the training of Elder Duarte. I`m glad too because I really like this area and I feel like there`s still something I need to do here.
I guess I`ll start with the disappointing story. We had this 17 year old girl we were teaching named Rocío. Everything was going pretty good. We were teaching her, she had a fecha bautismal, and she came to church. Also she said she was reading in the book of mormon and one of the verses made her cry. Then one day she was like, yeah so one of my friends invited me to his evangelica church so I`m going to go with him to see how it is. Well, we weren`t able to find her in her house for like a week and a half. We finally were able to find her. We were sitting there talking to the family, and I saw this little pendant keychain thingy with a picture of Jesus on it sitting on the table. So I picked it up to look at it, and when I turned it over I saw a picture of Rocío in white and it said, ¨Mi Bautismo¨. I could not believe it. She literally had already gotten baptized in the week we didn`t see her. It was pretty disappointing. I´ve lost too many investigators to the evangelica church. Speaking of that, María and all her kids randomly showed up to the church Wednesday night when we play soccer. We hadn´t visited her in over a week because we basically had to drop her. But she showed up and she gave me and my comp a 12 empanadas because she knew it´s my favorite food from here. So I don`t know, maybe she´s starting to change her mind. We´ll have to see.
Yesterday we saw un milagro. We found this new family on friday, and set up a cita to return saturday morning. So we went back on saturday and basically just taught them about the book of mormon. I read Mosiah 24:13-15 with them, which is one of my favorite things to read with investigators. They liked it a lot and we invited them to come to church and they said they would love to. (I´ve heard that about a million times, so I wasn't expecting them to actually come.) Well Sunday morning at about 9:50 we get a call. It was the mom, and she said sorry that they were running late but that they were going to arrive in about 10 minutes. I could not believe it haha. I forgot to mention that this family lives clear out in the boonies of our area, about 30 minutes in bike from the church. I figured they would be taking bus to get to the church. So it was a huge surprise when I saw the entire family come around the corner in bikes. I don´t think I´ve ever seen such commitment to come to church from any of my investigators. The parents will have to get married but I feel confident this time they will be willing to do it. They want to get baptized really bad and they liked church a lot.
Also we´ve kinda been having water issues in our pensh haha. We aren´t allowed to drink tap water so we have to buy the big jugs of water from people that come to our house and sell it. Well for some reason they haven´t passed by in like 3 weeks. So we haven´t had any drinking water for that long. We´ve been surviving off boiling water for maté for a long time. A couple days ago we went to the store and bought a 2 liter bottled water and we all drank it and it was like heaven. Never thought regular water could taste so good.
Anyway, things are going good, and hopefully we´ll be seeing some baptisms here soon. Hopefully you guys have a great week in Lake Powell! Don´t shred too much of the gnar!
-Elder Shelton
"me quedo" = I'm staying here
"fecha baptismal = baptismal date"
"un milagro" = a miracle
"cita" = appointment
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