The
other day Elder Santillan and I went out looking for a less active
family named la familia Roca. We went to their house and a girl came and
opened the door. This girl was their cousin, Yuli, who's living with
them so she can go to school. We told Yuli who we were, that we were
looking for the family, and asked her if she would like to learn more as
well. We set up a cita with her, then went along. Since then we've had
two citas with Yuli, and one of the members of the Roca family, their
son Roy. The first one we had we talked with her about prayer, how
important it is, and asked her if she would start praying. The next cita
we taught her the Restoration. At the end of the lesson we were talking
about the Holy Ghost and how He answers prayers, and she suddenly got
really excited and said "I felt that!" She then told us about how after
we had left the time before she went into her room and prayed and she
had "This huge feeling, like I was just so happy." She then told us "It
was the best feeling I've ever had." We explained to her that those
feelings came from the Holy Ghost, and if we're baptized and follow the
Gospel we can feel like that everyday. She told us she was going to pray
more, but she wanted to be baptized so she could always feel that. So
cool!
In our mission we have a goal to contact
12 families every week. This week especially they were really stressing
that we find as many families as possible, so the 4 of us here in Santa
Ana went to the Plaza de Armas in search of families. You always find
the most interesting people contacting. For example, we went to go talk
to this one couple: "Hey, we're missionaries can we talk with you guys
for a sec?" "No, I don't want to talk." "Ok, well can we at least give
you this card?" "Nope, I don't want that either. But you know what I do
want? I want the United States to keep killing all of the Muslims!"
"....Ok then, have a good day." It turned out being a really good
experience and we ended up contacting 13 families for the week. Not bad
at all.
Also yesterday was Carnaval. As far as I
can tell, that's just an excuse to dump buckets of water on people or
pelt them with water balloons. Well, I'm a missionary and I'm white so
that was like a double target. I got back last night completely soaked.
Hope you're all doing well. Can't wait to hear back from you guys.
Jeremy
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