Well, this week… Idk. Honestly time is flying and I don't know what I did last week.
So the other elders have like a running joke that they found and baptized a bunch of young women to teach. They are all like 25 years old like four of them, and then they started finding people in wheel chairs to teach, like they are going to baptize a wheel chair guy next week, and they’re teaching another.
So we began to find people with diabetes and major infections in their legs and feet. We found a guy named Moises in the street, he is like this old guy who’s wife was a JW. He got mad because she died cause the JW´s forbid blood transfusions or something, and her religion forbade a funeral. Who knows, but he has diabetes and he can't feel his feet. He also is a carpenter, so one day he stepped on a nail and didn't notice until he took his shoes off that night. He almost had his leg amputated, but that happened two years ago and his foot still hasn't healed. Weird. He’s cool though, and he came to church; I hope he progresses.
Also we found another guy, through a referral. He’s the husband of a member and his foot currently is in the process of like healing like was swelling but now it's getting better but he ca’t walk or anything. He was pretty stupid earlier in his life, and almost dying cause his foot gave him some perspective. He'll get baptized when he heals enough to come to church. Or get in water.
Spiritual or something about my week:
Well, we taught a bunch of lessons, ate a bunch of rice, and tortillas, oh and one day my comp was sick and so I sat inside and read scrips and Liahonas and stuff for like 8 hours. Yeah that was fun. Oh funny story, we were knocking doors a couple weeks ago and found a family of members that we didn't know lived there. The parents are sealed in the temple the son almost went on a mish. but right now they are super inactive, the dads a drunk and the kid that almost went on the mish has a girlfriend she’s pregnant and they're living together he's 21 his sister thats younger who is 14 is going to get married in a couple weeks. She's living with her boyfriend who is 21. Yuck. Haha anyway this week we were walking in his street, and we passed his house and the family is outside drinking beer, and he sees us and has like a panic attack to try and hide the beer. Triste Chango - thats like “stupid monkey” in spanish.
I guess that wasn't spiritual.
ummm this week I was thinking about the difference between a baptism here and a convert and the reason all the members are slackers and inactive. I think that it is because hardly any of them are converts and to be converted takes faith that what every is necessary you’ll do, read the scriptures every day without fail always go to church, always pray, always go to church activities even when theres other stuff to do or responsibilities, and in time come the blessings of being converted like the 2000 stripling warriors. Idk, just a thought, and a challenge to everyone, to think about what is conversion are we converted and how we can be better.
Idk. Oh yeah, Pres called this morning and asked if our area was big. We said yeah. He said go talk with your bishop about the division lines and start looking for a house. Hahaha so yeah and I think this is presidents last week, maybe special changes to start these areas before the change actually ends. That'll be tough but fun and a good opportunity for this ward to grow.
Tell sam happy birthday.
Love you guys,
Elder Blotter
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