Found this Santa suit this week
Dear All,
First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!! WOO!!
This week was a pretty fun week. Some good stuff happened,
and some bad, but I had fun. So that's what counts, right?
We started the week with an all-Elders District Meeting,
cause the sisters are all in the temple open house (which is pretty cool). So
it was a fun District Meeting. We called it the Tie Party.
That night we had a lesson with a lady who we just met, who
has two of the funniest kids I have ever met in my life. They're like 2 and 3
and they are hilarious. The little two year old girl just follows her brother
around doing everything that he does, exactly like he does it. And it's funny
cause that little kid is, as they say here, tremendo. He was running and
screaming and throwing stuff and his little sister was doing the same thing. We
were laughing so hard. And then this little kid starts throwing water jugs down
the stairs and his sister tries but she can't and she flipped out. I felt bad
laughing but it was hilarious. Little things.
On Wednesday and Thursday we set apart time to search for
less active members and stuff in the farthest parts of our area. Our area is
much larger than we thought, and with many more hills. It's pretty cool cause
you can see San Diego on one side, and the Temple on the other. It's pretty
dope.
Speaking of the temple it's amazing.
We also went to go visit a guy we are teaching and his
neighbor was there with him, drunk of course, and the neighbor all of the
sudden starts asking us what he needs to do to stop being a bad person (of
course that's the clean version, the way he said it to us was a string of
well-used swear words) and then he started bragging about all of the crimes
he's commited, including showing us his collection of stolen cell phones and a
tablet, and many other things we did not want to hear or know. So we told him
to repent. Plain and simple. It's not a hard thing, but it's what needs to be
done. I don't know how well he took it, but yeah. It was kinda cool.
On Friday we did surprise exchanges with our other District
Leader. He's a super cool dude from Quito, Ecuador, and their area is famous
for having the most hills in the whole mission. To get to the house, you have
to climb over 300 stairs. It's insane. The view from up there is incredible,
but the actual getting there is a little bit hard. It was a fun day though, it
seemed like every door we knocked was either a Testigo de Jehova or a Catholic
but those catholics that are like 70 and super hardcore entrenched. By like the
third one we were kind of annoyed. So we had some fun with them, confusing some
of them on their very own doorstep. None of them let us in though, so that was
kinda sad. One I thought would let us in, but then he was like, "No, no, I
don't want to have to travel to get all the way to your church. My church is
here crossing the street." Like oh man oh well. Nimodos.
On Saturday we went to the Temple again. It's so cool. We've
already gotten some references from people that went to the open house, so
that's exciting. I think the best part about it is that, in spite of the fact
that its right next to a busy road and a mall, once you get on temple grounds
you don't hear the city unless you pay super close attention. The peace and
Spirit that can be felt there is just off the charts, and everyone is feeling
it. It's such a blessing to be here in this moment and be part of this whole
thing.
Esta iglesia es la verdadera. Cristo mismo la dirige. No
cabe ninguna dude ni en mi mente ni en mi corazon que el Libro de Mormon es la
palabra de Dios, dada a los hombres para que sepan la verdad de todas las
cosas. Testifico que Thomas S Monson es un profeta de Dios. El habla con
Nuestro Senor cara a cara y nunca nos guiara por el camino equivocado.
Los quiero mucho,
Elder Rawlings
Also found this donkey head
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