Hello Everybody!
This week has been pretty great! I went on exchanges twice this week so on
Wednesday I was in East's area and everything went great. We added a new
investigator named Oscar who is really cool. He is a "searcher"
for sure and wants us to help him quit drinking. We asked him to pick up the Book of Mormon
every time he's tempted to pick up a magazine with bad things and he said he
would do that as well. He also wants to come to church but wants to wait
until he works in his new job a few weeks so he has money to buy nice clothes
to wear to church. He is awesome.
On Thursday I was on exchanges in the zone leader's area with Elder
Nicolls. We had an awesome day. We found a new lady named Victoria
and committed her to be baptized at the end of June and she accepted. It
sounds like all her family is LDS except her (she's about 50). She wants to be baptized and learn more about
the gospel and the plan of salvation. It was really cool to be with one
of the zone leaders because they are both awesome missionaries. I also
realized what a blessing it is to have a good ward to serve in. The work is 10x better when the members are
helpful (which we are trying to work on in our ward right now since a lot of
the ward is inactive or works a lot).
Friday we had a very interesting experience. The Delta East elders and
us got food from a Chinese Restaurant for dinner and then went to eat it at a
park in a nice neighborhood in our area. About 2 minutes after we sat
down this thug looking guy came up to us and started asking us for
lighters. He was already extremely high and he asked each of us about 10
times if we had lighters and we told him we didn't. Eventually this pregnant
lady walked by with her husband and 2 year old and he asked her if she had a
lighter and she got really mad and yelled at him so he started yelling really
vulgar/rude things at her and then he wanted me to come with him to yell at her (I think, I couldn't quite understand what he wanted). When I told him
"no" he got really mad and punched a tree and then was telling us to
look at his hand and what kind of damage it could do. Elder
Guzman said that we had to go so everyone got up and
as I was putting my food away he came up behind me, grabbed my food, walked
back to where he was, and threw it down on the table. When that happened,
some red sauce that was all over the food got all over my companion. I
was really frustrated and got up from the table. My companions thought I was going to fight the kid but I was just
really frustrated. I started walking to the car and everyone followed me,
including the thug guy. I tried to have everyone get in the car quickly
and then lock the door but Elder Torres was too slow so this guy opened the
passenger door and didn't want us to leave but eventually I convince him to
close the door and to go back and eat the rest of my food that he took, so he
did. That was a really interesting experience.
We had a really awesome lesson with familia Guzman last night.
Hermano Guzman hasn't been able to come to church because he has to work in the
flea market to pay his bills and provide for his family. I promised him
that if he stopped working there on Sundays that the Lord would provide him and
his family with a way to have everything they needed. He told us he would
stop working on Sundays and come to church with us! We just need to get them to
church one more time, get them married, and then they can get baptized! I love
this family a lot. They really like us too and Hermano Guzman has been
praying that neither my companion nor I get transferred (since transfers are in
2 weeks). We'll see if his prayers are answered because that would be
awesome if Elder Guzman and I could somehow both stay.
This past weekend was stake conference and it was awesome. We translated
again and it was really tough but we did a good job. The stake president
gave a really really good talk and it was unfortunate that we were preoccupied
with translating and couldn't focus on what he was saying. Hopefully
somehow I can get a copy of it and read it.
That's all I have for this week! Love you all and hope everything is going
well. All of you are in my prayers!
Les Quiero!
-Elder Gaskill
-Elder Gaskill
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