How´s it going? I hope yáll had an
awesome week and that your teachers aren´t too mean or give yáll a bunch of
homework.
The weeks keep going by faster and
faster. Every Monday I´m surprised that I’m back at the computer screen. We had
a pretty good ma o meno week. We had a few good lessons. One of the lessons
that we had was with a lady named Alejandra. She is like a member but has never
been baptized. The funny thing is that every time we finish the lesson we ask
her who or whom she would like to say the prayer. And every time she chooses
me. It´s like a rerun or something because she always turns to me and says
Hermano Nelson. Me, again are you sure. And then my companion say ni modo, oh
well. It´s pretty funny. The best part is that there is another lady that we
visit that always asks my companion to pray so toshave.
We went to the chapel to wait for an
investigator to show up. While we were there my companion had to doo some
business in the bathroom. I also had to go so we went in and opened the first
stall. It was a bowl of hot chocolate that was not good looking so we went to
the next, and the next. It was a nightmare. We decided that maybe the women’s
bathroom would be better. Now since we were the only ones in the whole building
the men and women’s signs did not apply. But even then we went into the women´s
bathroom and it was worse. So my companion had to pick his poison. I decided to
hold it. It was a good thing that my companion went in the men’s because about
3 minutes later the cleaning crew showed up and it would have been awkward to
walk out of the women´s restroom. We bid then good bye and good luck and left.
Moral of the story, flush. Moral #2 don´t go in the women´s bathroom.
We taught RS this Sunday. We talked
about the work of salvation and the need we have of the members to work with
us. It didn´t go too well. The sisters got super hostile with us. I guess this
answers the question that my dad gave me: Why was
king Noah "wroth" when Abinadi spoke against him
and Alma "grieved" when Korihor spoke against him, and what is
the difference between being wroth and grieved? When we taught them we didn´t
try to roast them or anything but they became wroth with the words we used.
When we told them they are an important part of the work they got angry. One of
the sisters in the branch is La Coca. Sometimes I feel like she is the leader
of the branch mafia. She doesn´t have a calling or anything but everyone
fallow, follow, follews, le sigue, her. It was had because when they spoke out
against us and what Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley said. It grieved us. Afterwards
the President of the RS told us don’t be sad if the RS doesn´t help us and to
enjoy our missions. It was a bit disappointing.
What was really funny is that during
the lesson my companion said I have gained the confidence of many women and
then he realized how bad that sounded and he had to correct it and say of you
guys. Right after this he must have been a little flustered because he got
mixed up and said you have been like my sons and I have been like your mother.
When he really wanted to say I have been like your son and you guys as my
mother. It was really funny.
Well I have to go but I want to
remind you guys to help the missionaries in your ward and to magnify your
callings.
I love yáll lots
