So, I forgot my journal again today... :( Good thing I told you pretty much everything on Sunday! That was a lot of fun talking!
So, I am sending a package home with a bunch of stuff in it. (Hopefully. Today has been pretty dang busy and I hope we will have enough time to send it off before I leave.)
This is what is included:
- My Book Of Mormon from the reading challenge we had as a mission. And the super awesome case I made for it! The book is all marked up with everything I have told you about: red - names of Christ, blue - words of Christ, green - Gospel of Christ. There are some other colors too, orange, purple and yellow, but they don't really have a meaning. Just cool verses.
- A Holy Bible I received from Chris, another basher! Two Saturdays ago, we were on our way to Nico's house, and some guy and his girlfriend drove up to us and asked if we could come over to their house and learn more about the Church. From that approach, we knew they were bashers, but you still have to go over and see if they are really interested. We made an appointment with them for the next Saturday (which was this last Saturday, before Mother's Day). But, turns out they were bashers. They weren't like Christopher basher though. They were definitely more caring. I don't know how to explain it. They were bashers, but they didn't bash... If that makes sense. Probably not. But, at the end of our "lesson", he gave Elder Josse and I both Holy Bibles from his church (Calvary Chapel) with all the Bible language removed (thee, thy, thine, etc.) to make it "easier" to understand. I would take it with me as a souvenir, but I would never even use it. So, I am sending it home!
- Proclaiming The Gospel. This is the book I received for Christmas, but it turns out it is against the rules because it hasn't been approved to be read by the mission :( The book seems like it would be super good, but since it is against the rules, I cannot read it :( :( :(
- Spanish book! I found a Spanish book in the drawer when I got here. It's an older version of the one I already have, so I am sending it home so other people can study Spanish! It's a super good book.
- A DVD of a talk by Elder Holland in the MTC last July! Oh my goodness, this talk is SO GOOD. President Cook uses this talk a lot in Zone Conferences and stuff, and so I made a copy, so you could see it! He is such a powerful speaker! Super good talk. Watch it and tell me what you think!
- My Avengers watch case. I have the watch, but I have no need for the case it came in. I bought it about 2 months ago at Kohl's. It was on sale and it was Avengers, so I had to get it! I have heard the movie was really good! Lots of people have told me, and I want to go watch it so bad... But, in 18 months!
- A water bottle from Mission Viejo City! When we did Mormon Helping Hands, they gave out water bottles to all the volunteers that were helping. I have no use for it whatsoever, but I wanted to keep it as a souvenir, so I am sending it home :)
- My Spanish dictionary from the MTC! I have no use for this either, because I now have the translator/dictionary/
- A program from the baptism of Enrique! YAY! I thought you would like to see a program too! That baptism was soooooo awesome! So is Enrique! Also, since he received the Priesthood 2 Sundays ago, he passed la Santa Cena this past Sunday! He told us he was really nervous before and then when sacrament meeting was over, we asked him about it and he said he had no reason to worry! It was easy! Oh man, it was awesome. We were talking with Hermano Crowder last night too, and he said the ward is going to give Enrique a calling as a ward missionary! YAY! He is going to be such a good ward missionary.
- SD card! Pictures! I have had this SD card since I arrived in Cali, so it has pictures of my last two days in the MTC, and everything since then. If you need an explanation of any of the pictures, just ask :)
- My old Book Of Mormon! Another cool thing I received that I don't really have any use for in the field... It's super awesome, but I already have like 3 Books of Mormon haha.
- My Batman thing! I already told you about it and I have 0 use for it out here, so I am sending it home too! Maybe you could put it with all the other video game collector things we have.
So, these are things that I can remember that happened this past week. On Friday, we had an activity del dia de las madres. The activity went really good. We had a lot of investigators show up and get to know some more of the members. Olga showed up too! Remember Olga?! I was SUPER surprised to see her there! It was so awesome. So, on Fridays is when we do weekly planning. We finished about 4:30 ish and were about to head to leave and work when we received a call from Elder Gibbons and Elder Chavez asking if we could help set up for the activity. Hermano Crowder was supposed to call us two days earlier and ask, but he forgot. So, we went to the church to help set up. We set everything up and then started to help with the food too. The activity was supposed to start at 6:30-7:00, but didn't end up starting until 8:30! Hahahahahahahahahaahahahaha!!! That's what happens when you mix Mormon time and Latin time! Church here never starts on time haha. It's always like, 5 minutes late. So, we stayed at the party until 9, then went home. It was awesome.
Yesterday we had a pretty cool experience. We were walking in this area called Madero and there was this lady we started talking to. She was buying some food from a street vender, and so we thought about just leaving them alone and finding some more people. But, we stayed and had an awesome experience. Her husband was arrested 3 days ago and today he is going to court and will most likely be deported. She was having such a difficult time handling it because he was working a lot and bringing in most of the money. She started to cry and tell us how difficult life was right now. So, we shared with her a little of the Book of Mormon and the Proclamation to the World. She seemed a lot more happy when we left, and she seems really prepared for the Gospel. It is really strange how the Lord prepares people for the Gospel. Elder Josse and I were talking about it, and that white people are a lot less receptive to the Gospel because they usually don't have to go through a lot of the trials as other races.
Well, it's time to go! Next week you will find out where I am and who my new companion is! I hope everything goes well with everything! I love you all! If there is anything else super exciting, I will make sure to tell you next week!
Love, Elder Hunt
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