Wow how sad about Haylee.. How awful it is when Satan takes hold of the hearts of the ones that are so close to ours.
What’s the scripture that says you will not receive a witness until after the trial of your faith? Ii think that would be good for her right now! Or D&C 121. Everything is for your own profit and learning.
Well this week was great and ruff at the same time I’ll tell you all the good stuff first! We had a Baptism Erique Campa! pretty cool huh! And we have 2 more baptismal dates one for this week and one for next week. The problem is we found this super excited lady who wants to be baptized but she keeps on talking to her kids who are telling her not to be baptized. It’s kind of a fight with her every time we go over there. She is quite easily convinced because we go over there and talk to her and she loves us and wants to get baptized but then she talks to her kids and she doesn’t want to. It’s kind of a mess. But anyway she told the whole principios del evangelio class that she doesn’t want to get baptized till February because of what her kids told her! Here is the truth of it all the Lord has blessed us with many tools, Family, Internet, books, pictures, friends, and many more things and we have to decide how where going to use these things for bad and for good. Everything he gives us can be used for terrible terrible things but at the same time for good. The same hammer that built your house has the power to destroy it in the right hands. Opposition in all things I guess.
Elder Lujan promised a bunch of investigators this week a movie (Joseph Smith story) before the baptism which was a great idea I thought. So we had like 3 investigators and some members to fellowship them before the baptism the problem was we didn’t have a computer. Elder Lujan rented a projector for 300 pesos which is a ton am still kind of upset about that but we got started at 6 and we where waiting for a computer. and waiting finally the computer showed up but it was a net book so it didn’t have a Disc Drive. Then we called a member to bring another one and that one didn’t have a program to play DVDs on. This all happened in a matter of 1 and a half hours. So Elder Lujan and I are freaking out because every investigator that is ready for baptism is sitting in a room waiting getting mad because they were basically lied to. So at 7 when the baptism was supposed to start Elder Lujan left with another elder to get a computer and I was in the room with the investigators and Elder Turley from Alabama and one lady stands up and says Lets start the baptism! She was kind of frustrated with the whole situation as we were we. But I was like wow you can’t just start the baptism you can’t do that I thought that was kind of out of line but whatever. That’s want I was thinking but then Elder Turley snaps back at her and basically tells her that she has no authority she isn’t Elder Hendricks or Elder Lujan isn’t a missionary leader nor a bishop nor president of the mission and told her to sit back down and wait! I was stunned I couldn’t believe he said that especially with all our investigators in the room! So I was basically standing in the back with my jaw dropped in shock. So that just kind of topped of the whole mess. So after 20 more minutes of nothing we started the baptism. The water was crazy cold but at this point that was the last of my worries. Plus i wasn’t the one dunking my head in ha-ha just my waist down! Anyway I knew the guys name and everything it kind of hard because Mexicans have like 4 names and there always crazy weird. but everything went smoothly after that. They didn’t get to watch the movie but whatever we apologized to all of them after that.
This week we made no bake cookies they were so sweet! i miss American sweets nothing they have here is sweet it’s all spicy even their suckers are spicy to always covers in chili powder. So we made these cookies and Elder Lujan took one bit and said, there is nothing more that sugar in these. And I said ya aren’t they great! So I ate almost all of them. Honestly I don’t really care if he likes them or not the rest of the Americans in our district did! I shared some with the district. Anyway today we went to this place with all these cool water falls it was fun. but kind of expensive it was a zone activity and I was told it was required but we had to pay 110 pesos of our own money to go so all in all I was kind of mad because it was like 1 waterfall and that’s it. It’s cool for Mexicans because Mexico doesn’t really have these types of things. but anyway kind of a waste of money the next one i probably won’t go to. They say its required but that’s not really true I know president would say otherwise.
Anyway we bought a rosca this week which was cool they are expensive (but right now it’s after the holiday) here because of some holiday but we bought one after the holiday so it was super cheap it’s like a big circular bread kind of thing. It’s like buying a Christmas tree after Christmas they are next to nothing.
Anyway that’s about it for today have a good week!
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