Dear All,
Another week come and gone. This week was pretty normal.
Kinda sad, but pretty normal. The sad part is that Lucila, the Jehovah's
Witness that got baptized a couple months ago moved to San Fransisco, which is
sad now cause we won't be able to visit her any more, but kinda cool cause San
Fran is not that far (I think) from BYU, so seeing her post-mish won't be too
hard. SO that's kinda cool. But yeah it was a sad goodbye.
Other than that it was a fairly normal week. My companion
and I decided to find a new way to get closer to our zone, so we wrote each of
them a letter. That was a pretty cool experience. I remember a note that one of
my zone leaders left me when he came to my area on exchanges, and I still have
it stuck in my scriptures. I hope the letters helped these guys to get pumped
up and work with all their heart, might, mind, and strength. It certainly
helped me just writing them.
This week we found an investigator who is literally the most
prepared person I have ever met in my life. We knocked on her door, and she let
us come in for 15 minutes and say a prayer with her and read some scriptures.
She told us that she had been going from church to church and that she really
hasn't found the "truth" yet. So that was like "WOW" and
then when we taught her the Restoration she loved it and then when we taught
her "Keep the Sabbath Day Holy" she decided not to work on Sunday
right then and there. SO that was like "WOWOW" (double wow). She is
way cool. The bad part is that I might get transferred next week and so I might
not be able to see her get baptized. Oh well. This isn't my work.
I went on exchanges this week, and we had a pretty freaking
cool experience. So we found these tall apartment building (I was in the other
area, not mine) and we decided to go knock a few hundred doors. But when we got
closer, we saw that all of the buildings were closed. There was no public
access. So we started walking around, looking for a building that was open, and
we ended up in front of one that was closed. However, one Elder pulled out a
list of referrals that he printed off, and found a name and address that
corresponded to THAT EXACT BUILDING. Without knowing it, we had gotten to the
place we needed to get. So we waited outside for about 30 seconds until someone
came out of the building, and then we grabbed the door and went inside. After
not finding the reference we were looking for, we started knocking every single
door from the top floor down. After a few...sketchy, experiences, we knocked a
door and we hear a woman's voice "Voy!" (english equivalent of
"I'm coming") and so we were like wow finally. A large, hairy, american
dude named Jeff answered the door. Wearing nothing but some too short too tight
gym shorts. We started talking to him in English, and then he introduced us to
his wife. Here comes the cool part.
So like two days before, other missionaries had contacted a
lady in a taxi who basically told them her whole life story and then told them
that they could for sure go and teach her and her family, but she only gave
them her phone number. So these guys had called the phone number, but the
person who answered didn't give them their address. So they were like "aw
dang, well that sucks" and had pretty much lost hope of finding this
person. Guess who the dude's wife was. Yep. The very lady that they had been
trying to find. It was pretty cool.
Just so that you know we only ate lasagna 2 times this week,
it was almost 3 but the family that was going to feed us one day called and
asked what we wanted and I said "anything but lasagna please" and the
brother was like "oh good thing you say that cause we were gonna make
lasagna." Close call.
CONGRATS ALLIE!! You're gonna have a blast. Keep strong
these last couple months, it'll all be all right.
Los quiero mucho,
Elder Rawlings
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