Companion: Hermana Zambrano
This week was pretty good. We were able to meet with some pretty interesting people and have some pretty spiritual experiences. The summer is winding down, so things are starting to get pretty interesting around here.
This week, it was a little bit cooler
than it has been recently. One day, I was actually able to wear my
sweater for the entire day. I don't think that it ever got to be below
75 degrees, but I am still taking everything that I can. One of the
benefits of the weather is that we are able to walk around a lot more
than we used to. One afternoon this week, we decided to pretend that we
didn't have a car, so we walked for hours. We were able to meet some
people who were selling fruit and elotes and some hobos sitting in the
parking lot. We were also able to meet a really cool old man named
Belindo. It was an adventure!
We ate dinner
with one of our members named William. We finished up eating and we were
about to share a message with him and his Grandmother when we heard a
knock on the door. It turned out that it was a traveling salesman.
William invited him in to eat a home cooked meal and we were able to
share our message with him while he was eating. It turns out that all of
his coworkers are Mormon because the company recruits returned
missionaries in Utah. It just goes to show that you can make dinners be
effective as well.
We have been having a lot of
encounters with Punjabi people recently. It is always a little strange
when I try to talk to someone and they don't speak English or Spanish. I
guess that this area is here just to show me how the English
missionaries feel when they try to have a conversation with people in
Spanish. It is always super funny when we get referrals of Spanish
speaking people from the English missionaries. They will tell us that
they are pretty sure that the people are super nice and that they really
want to learn from missionaries. When we talk to them, they will tell
us that they were really telling us that they wanted the missionaries to
go away and that they already have a religion.
Last
night, we had a really cool experience. We didn't really have any set
plans, so we decided that we wanted to go see one of our former
investigators. When we showed up at his house, his son was being picked
up by his grandparents. It was a pretty heated situation. After the
grandparents had left, we went up to talk to the man, Oscar. He was
telling us about how he was just trying to help his son out in this life
and that he really wanted to do what was best for him. We were telling
him about how we could help him with that. In the end, we asked him if
we could say a prayer with him. After we were done, he did a big sigh
and told us that he felt a lot of relief. He has a crazy work schedule,
but hopefully we can go back and talk to him again.
Last
news for the week. I am staying in Buena Vista with Hermana Zambrano
this next transfer. She broke my curse of having a different companion
every transfer. We are changing apartments, though, so after I am done
emailing, we will be going back home and moving our stuff across town to
live closer to the area that we work in.
That
is pretty much it for this week. Nothing too crazy has happened, but
things are just chugging along. Life as a missionary is great and I love
the work. I know that the gospel is true and that it really can help
families eternally! I hope that y'all have a good day!
Hermana Blau
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