I'm begging that I'm with Elder Hernandez, he has 20 months but he is pretty darn obedient so thats a breath of fresh air. The only thing is he's new in the area and he's semi-quiet so I talk a lot in the lessons. He is from Guatemala, not Mexico, and he is also another key indicator that he's not dead or frito.
Mom you asked if I was senior comp. yes. I've been senior since, like, September or more. Not that it really means anything. But no I'm not training anymore either. My child got changes and I got Elder Hernandez.
What else? Oh, my investigator, named Roque (pronounced rocky) is a super, super cool guy he's having a lot of desafios (challenges), which sounds better in Spanish. He is super escogido (chosen), this guy, but in this past week he got his wallet stolen. The next day he fixed it all, re-did the paperwork to get his drivers license and all that jazz, and then he gets in a car accident. He's a taxi driver. Over the next day or two he got car-jacked. Ya, tough situations! I don't really know whats going on in his family life but I think his unmarried daughter got pregnant too, we promise blessing for going to church and by beginning to live the gospel and Satan steps in and throws a bunch of trails and someone mentioned to him that everything bad is happening because he stopped praying to the virgin de Guadalupe, don't you just love catholicism.
But I have a baptism this Saturday, finally. It's been long enough.
the other day we were teaching a less active family that I've grown to love them but they are so frustrating. we teach a good lesson about the scriptures and then challenge them to keep it they all say yes. we go back in three days and no one read anything. we challenge them to go to church and they say yes. then no one goes. so we {went over there and we talked for a while about the importance of all this stuff and i finally got fed up and righteously called them out. And told them they have a lot of problems as a family and if they want to apply the gospel to change and fix their problems they can but what are we doing here teaching if you guys don't want to change. did we waste the past hour challenging you to read or whats up? i hope they can understand that the gauntlet was thrown not because i don't like them, but because i do, and i want them to change and live the blessings of the gospel.
What else can I tell you? November blew by so fast, honestly so fast. It's already December and it feels like mid September. It is hot in the day with a cool breeze and cold at night. Everyone is like dying from the "cold"!
Welp, I think thats all folks.
Love you guys, have a great week.
Elder Joshua Blotter
