Okay, so this week started out hard but it's all good because it's
finishing on a good note.
So I can't remember what day but I was just having a
hard time. Me and my companion were fighting and I don't want to get into that, but just know that I'm right and he's crazy lol. But anyways I was just
feeling sad and dumb and overwhelmed with Spanish and teaching and learning in a
different language and yeah. I didn't really know what to do so I said a prayer
and I just asked for help.
I didn't know how or when or what I needed, just
straight up help. When we had a contacting activity that same day in one of the
areas in our zone. I was with this other white kid and we were contacting
together. He told me that there was a 50 peso reward for whomever got the most
contacts so I was like hey that would be funny if the 2 white kids beat all of
the latinos haha.
So I was super motivated to get a bunch. And I was
contacting and I got to this one house and there was music playing. I knocked a
couple times and no one answered and I don't know why but I was determind to get
someone to answer the door. So I knocked again and to my suprise a guy came
through the gate next to me and we began to talk.
Always when I contact I say
something like, "would it be alright if we visited you later when your not busy"
or something like that. But with this guy I don't know why but for the first time I just asked if he had some time to talk right now about what we believe. It
kinda felt like a dumb choice because 1. we were in a hurry to get a bunch of
contacts and 2. I don't have a latino next to me to save me if he says
something that I don't understand lol.
But I did it anyway. To my suprise he said
yes and so I began to teach him lesson one. He seemed interested and he asked
some questions about like where are we are going and why are we here and stuff
like that. I think I did alright answerng him. I talked about Joseph Smith and
how he was reading in the Bible and read James 1:5 and how it says that if
anyone lacks wisdom let him ask of God.
He told me that he has doubts about
all the religions because he has been asking God which church was true and he
feels like he hasn't gotten a response. And so I told him that maybe we are the
answer to his question and he looked at us for a second and said "hmmm probably". haha
it was awesome!
After that I was alot happier.
We definitely didn't win the prize money because I spent half the time with that guy but I didn't care haha. Anyways thats the highlight of this week.
And the message behind it is sometimes
we feel sad, dumb, lost and we just feel overwhelmed and don't know what to do and
sometimes all we need to do is pray for help because Christ knows all our pains
all our afflicions in the past and in the future so he definitely knows the best
way to help us.
Love you all!
P.S. We went paintballing today it was funish. It was so ghetto my gun didn't
really work. It cost 5 dollars American money haha. My gun broke so I had to
throw my bullets with my hand. lol They told me that we were allowed to play
paintball, but I didn't really believe them so I double checked with the president
haha and I guess we can. So don't worry it's not breaking rules.
Two typical boys in this video having a little fun (until the dog actually catches his shoe one of these times) You can hear Jacob laughing in the background.
When he says, "Otra Vez", it means "again" in Spanish.
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