Elder Alegria (Jenson's former companion) posted this picture on his Facebook page after he returned home from his mission a couple of weeks ago
Dear All,
First off, congrats to Sadie and McKay for having great
seasons in basketball and getting one year older. Congrats to Payton Manning,
going out with a win. And congrats anyone else who needs it haha.
This week was pretty funny. This area might be the most fun
I've had so far. There's just so many crazy people and dug addicts and its just
a weird combination. Lots of deported dudes too so I get to practice my English
quite a bit.
But anyway the family that we found last week knocking doors
is probably one of the funniest experiences I'm going to have on the mission. I
don't even know the words to describe them. Their life is a ridiculous story
full of conflict, high-level drug deals, murder, everything this city has to
offer. I'll make a movie about it one day. It'll get an oscar.
But anyway the family consists of a lady who is 52 years old
and about 3 times my size. And her mom. They are HILARIOUS but its not like
they try to be. For example. The other day the daughter burned her finger on
the stove, and then proceeded the next 10 minutes to lick her finger as if it
were a lollipop trying to make it feel better. Or the mom one time answered the
door and on her shirt there were a few beans that had fallen off her spoon and
found a resting place there. A few minutes later she went to scratch and wow
hey look some beans and to my surprise (not really) popped those suckers right
into her mouth and started to chew. About died.
But the best part is this. We show up at their house on
Friday, and the daughter answers the door. We ask her how she's been, and she
says sad. We ask why, and she says, "well, my mom had a heart attack
yesterday." Woah. I was speechless. But then she kept talking. Good news,
mom was still alive, she was in the hospital all night, but when she woke up
the first thing she remembered was that we had appointment to visit them that
day. So she convinced the nurse to let her go home so that she could make the
appointment. Wow. That was pretty cool. They went to church on Sunday and that
was also a pretty solid experience.
But yeah. We invited a few people to repent, some quite
directly and strongly, and overall it was a pretty special week. Lots and lots
and lots of trials of patience, not with my companion or anything, just with
appointments falling through, lots of rejection, the usual. But yeah this is a
good time of year.
I don't really know what else to write about, except for an
experience I had about 2 weeks ago that I forgot to tell you about.
So we were having a terrible day. It was one of those days
where you plan the night before and see appointments every hour on the hour and
with people that have lots of potencial, and then you wake up and there's a
message cancelling one appointment, then a call cancelling the other, and then
the rest just aren't home so you knock hundreds of doors and not one lets you
in and your feet hurt and everything and yeah. One of those days. We all have
them. So at the end of the day we had about 2 lessons (our daily average is
between 5-8) and tons of contacts and doors and not a whole lot of success. So
I was like "alright finally it's 8:50 let's go home" and we passed
some hot dogs and I wanted a hot dog. So we go buy hot dogs, and when I went to
pay, the guy next to me was like "hey man don't worry about it it's on
me." I was like wow. "hey dude are you a member?" and he said
"Nah, I'm catholic, but my wife and I always see you guys walking and we
think it's really cool that you guys make all these sacrifices and stuff just
to preach the Good Word. We felt like we needed to buy these for you guys.
Thanks for all you do." And it was like wow. That's what I needed to hear.
It was really cool. Moral of the story: I'm gonna go buy hot dogs every night
before going home haha.
Hope you are all doing great, love you lots and don't forget
to read the scriptures every day.
Los quiero mucho,
Elder Rawlings
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