Hello, hello my beloved family and friends!
It's been six months already, so you all have probably forgotten about me.
First off, I am praying fervently for Emily. The other missionaries in my district too.
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| Sand Snowman (Not Daniel's) |
You all should feel lucky that you're freezing up there, I'm
sure you don't want to be burning your buns off like I am. :P I tried
to make a sand snowman, but it didn't work, and I felt sad inside.
I have to say that although there is still a lot of
dust, the air is a lot clearer here in Happyville. For that, I am super
happy.
Oh, and the chicken foot last week? It wasn't all that bad. It was like a chicken lollypop that had fingers, and was slimy.
And did I burn a tie? Yes, yes I did. For my six
months, Me, my companion, and one of the pre-missionaries in our ward
celebrated with the tie burning and PIZZA. It was epic. Enclosed is a
photo of me squirting rubbing alcohol onto the burning tie. :D It was an
epic night, and super fun.
It's time for a story!
So,
me and my companion were going out to Plaza Vea (a super market) to buy
some medicine for his eyes. On the way back, we saw a swarm of the
Jehovah's witnesses. I thought to myself, oh shoot, we're probably going
to half to talk to one of them. I was right. One of them eagerly
stopped us to tell us about the kingdom of Jehovah in the earth. I have
to congratulate them for their eagerness. The thing is, she kept
talking... and talking... and reading weird scriptures from their
translation of the bible... and talking some more. The thing is,
whenever we tried to read a scripture, or share our opinions, she shut
us down... and kept talking. This one Jehovah's Witness was talking at
us for at least 45 minutes. The best part however, is that she gave us
TEN pamphlets. TEN OF THEM. Later I got a chance to look through them
and see all the false doctrine, but it was an... experience. I feel a
lot less inclined to listen to them because they refuse to listen to us.
I was actually pretty impressed with her knowledge of her Bible though.
Good work, I guess.
So we had a pretty cool experience this past week.
We were in a lesson with Hector again, he had almost all the lessons at
this point, and a plentitude of assistances, the only thing he was
really missing was the date for his baptism. So, we were teaching the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and after we had finished talking about baptism,
he started expressing his feelings of how he wanted to be baptized, but
didn't feel ready. I explained to him the importance of baptism, and
how he is ready to be baptized. I felt an impression of the
spirit to invite him to be baptized this same week... and he accepted. I
saw the look on his face was a mixture of amazement and excitement that
he could do it so soon. It's so cool to see how the spirit can touch
the lives of these people, and the part most important is that the Lord
doesn't need people to be perfect to be baptized. What he needs is
people who understand and want to be baptized.
So that's the good news for this week, we're going to have a baptism this Saturday. :D
Well,
those are the three big experiences for this week. Sad to say, I'm
almost out of time, so be good all!! I love you and I'm praying for you!
With pantalones,
-Elder Dañel Jacob Smith
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