5/5/08
howdy folks. hope all is well. i was told yesterday, on sunday, by one of the members that it looks like i had lost weight. i knew i was chubby after the mtc but i didnt know it was that bad. she said it was something about my pants that tipped her off... thats good tho, that im getting unchubby. so this week, i went on splits with my district leader, and we were teaching this guy from honduras. he moved here the week before we first met him, and we actually came to talk to someone else in the apartment. there is a husband and a wife, plus 4 other people staying there. we came to see the wife, but ended up teaching one of the friends, his name is enos. it was really weird how it happened that we found him because we didnt even really teach him the first time, but the second time on he was the only one we taught. last week my dl and i challenged him to be baptized and he accepted! hes very intelligent for a latin, meaning nothing bad, but when you teach these people, you say, joseph smith wanted to knw which church he should join, and then you ask right after that, what was his question, they think for a second... no no no se (i dont know). its ridiculously frustrating. but enos, when we leave him a chapter, reads it like 10 times and practically memorized it. we had him read the BoM intro, and he told us about it the next visit 2 days later and he told us the story perfectly with all dates correct and everything. it was cool. he had just moved from honduras a week when we met him, and he was looking for a way to change his life around, its a cool story.
we were knocking doors one day and we came up to a door just like normal, we had knocked on a lot of them in that complex, so we just went on to the next one, so we knocked on one door, and a lady answered it. before we said anything, she said, who sent you? how do you know im here? which was trippy, but we later found out that a few days before, her son in guatemala had called her and said he was going to send missionaries to her. it turns out she is a member, but has been less active for 15 years, and we just showed up a few days after that phone call with her son. there have been a lot of cool things like that. its cool to here someone say, whether its a member or not 'its weird you stopped by here today' it happens a lot more than i thought. we started talking to this one lady, and she turned out to be a raging alcoholic. she was so messed up, she just drank all day without realizing it, so we helped her enter detox, and when she gets out shes going to call us. there are a lot of crazy people around here too, i like it. we visited this one lady who isnt active, and we talked to her, and when we asked her to come to church, she said no, just flat out, no games, no. same with reading and same with praying. yesterday, i saw her at church. my companion was in the other ward at the time, but i started talking to her and she had changed a little, she was a lot nicer, told me we could come visit whenever we wanted, all that, which was a 180 turn for her. hmm, lots of other people. when members fall, they do it for the dumbest reasons, and they just use those as an excuse to not come to church for years. we have visited people who have been less active for 65ish years one lady said, and the reason was because they asked her to help teach primary. dumb stuff like that (ill admit, i wouldnt want to teach it either, but come on). shilo sent me an email, sounds cool. ill call you guys on sunday, im thinking at 4pm our time (thats 5pm for you landlubbers). ill have 45 minutes to chat, so i guess see you then
