Wow. This transfer has gone by so quick! WHY?!?! (That's my new favorite word; Elder Acaro says it ALL the time! jajajaja he's so funny) Anyways, this is the last week of this transfer, and I am pretty sure Elder Acaro is going to English work. During my interview with President Cook, he said he really wants Elder Acaro to learn English, and so he is going to be putting him in English work. It's not 100%, but it's pretty certain. Hopefully this transfer with me has helped him out!
This week was pretty good. We found a few new investigators.
- We found this one guy, his name is Roselio. He is a super awesome guy. He collects stuff (clothing, food, etc.) to take down to Tijuana in order to donate it to the poor people there. He does it like once a month. He's a SUPER nice guy; he would make such a great Mormon! So, we met him about the first week of the transfer. We have helped him out a lot with his collecting and cable stripping (for money) and other stuff, and we finally had a sit down lesson with him on Friday. He is a super awesome guy, and hopefully will be baptized! We are teaching his son too, who is a lot like his dad.
- We received a referral from some English Elders of a guy named Roberto Avila, like 40s. He is really cool too. He has a lot of questions about what the differences between all the churches are (especially catholic and Mormon). Also why there are so many churches. We taught him on Saturday. And guess what?! When we were shopping at Target today, we saw him! It was sweet!
- We were contacting in this one trailer park, knocking on doors that other missionaries had found before. We knocked on this one door and found a guy named Denis. He is about 25 years old and just invited us in right away! (Spanish people are so nice. I have yet to meet a white person that just lets us right in their house) Anyways, we taught him too! We don't know much about him because it was a quick lesson because we had to get home, but he was really excited to learn too!
The investigators we have now are... Good. They just don't want to progress! Los Reyes went like, crazy on Sunday when we taught them. They never really said they were Catholic before, but this visit they were saying that they were Catholic and they go to church every week and they believe in the Virgin... It was crazy. Alicia (the mom) has a son that is SUPER Catholic and he was asking us crazy questions (that are really dumb) like: How many angels fell with Satan and Lucifer when God banished them down to the earth? How many times does God forgive us of our sins? Apparently, he thinks Satan and Lucifer are the same person and that only six angels fell down with them when God banished them here. He said he received that information from the Pope himself... Yeah. Also, that God only will forgive us once or twice. No more than that. If we sin once or twice, then God isn't going to forgive us because he knows we will just return to do it again. So. Crazy. But, apart from that, we are still going to teach the Reyes! Still haven't taught Angel though :( he's always busy playing football!
I don't know if I told you about Hugo Hernandez. he is the spouse of a member. His whol efamily is baptized, except him. We picked him up about a month ago and have been teaching him every so often. But, when we reach the subject of baptism, he becomes mad and ends the lesson... So, we had hermano Tippetts (I think I told you about him; one of the 3 Nefitas) come with us to a lesson. And the same thing happened :( So, we are still going to try to teach him, and just avoid the topic of baptism and hopefully, with time, his heart will soften up.
That's about all that has happened this week. It has been really rainy this past week. But, it's been nice! It has only poured like, 1 or 2 times (we were inside, thank goodness). But, other times it has just been a sprinkle.
There is a pond by our house, so last week on P-Day, Elder Acaro and I went and visited! It was nice just to sit on a bench and watch the ducks swim. The next day, a member gave us some duck food (why he had it, I have no idea). So, he gave some to us and today we are going to go and visit the ducks again!
To receive a new name tag, I have to send some money to the mission office and they will send me a new one. But, I never remember! :( so I still have the same old broken nametag. I added a Spongebob sticker though! We found a bunch in our apartment. It was cool.
Thanks for the package! It was SWEET! I blew up the pumpkin thing and it is sitting on our fridge. I love the PME too! IT'S SO COOL! Everyone is going to be jealous! The mission is going to be ordering tiny ones at the beginning of next month, but I think they are only in English! Spanish > English :) But, if you could send me a English one too, that would be nice :) then I can use it for like zone meetings and stuff when we have to have materials in English.
I heard about the MTC week change! That's crazy! It will be nice to be at the MTC for less amount of time, and it will really put a bigger emphasis on preparation before the mission. I think it is a good idea! 2 weeks in the MTC for English missionaries... That's like a blink of an eye! Something that has also helped is a program they started (I don't know how long ago) when you arrive to the field. Instead of having one hour of companionship study with your trainer, you have two and have a special booklet that the Church has given us of things you have to go over. I think when I entered the mission it was pretty new, because my trainer didn't really know how to use it... They have put a lot more emphasis in the preparation in the first 3 months too. It's so cool!
Well, that's all for this week! HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK! :)
Love, Elder Hunt
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