This week got going kind of slowly but it ended very busily.
On
Friday we had the most busy day of my mission. We had an appointment
every hour from noon to 8:30 at night. I was a little nervous going
into it and was praying really hard that I would have enough spiritual
energy and time management skills to get through the day. It was really
tough. Spanish people love to talk and it was really hard to get to
know them, keep them focused, teach them a lesson, leave the
commitments, pray and get out with enough time to get to the next
appointment. We had some good lessons though.
There was a guy named
Jose Franco that we taught who was interesting. The English speaking elders were
the ones that found him for us and they had actually run into him once
before about a month and a half ago. The first time they wrote down his
address and phone number wrong so we weren't able to find him.
All he wanted was a Book of Mormon. The second time he happened to see
the missionaries riding by the park and he flagged them down. It was
two different missionaries though so they didn't remember him. This
time they got the information right so we were able to go visit him. He
really likes the Book of Mormon and has seen videos about it before.
He doesn't understand that every church can't be
the church of Jesus Christ. He loves to talk too and it was very
frustrating. Hopefully he turns out to be a better investigator down
the road. We had a couple new investigators that we had really good
lessons with but none of them came to church so we'll see what happened
to them this week.
We have a few people from the Mendoza family getting baptized this
week. The missionaries have been teaching this family off and on since
May of last year but they've had random problems so they haven't been
able to make it to baptism. A few weeks ago Ana called me on a Sunday
and told me how she had figured everything out and needs for her and her
kids to be baptized. She is so resolute on getting baptized this
Saturday it's crazy. She's a little bit of a drama queen and amplifies
everything but she's really sincere. She and her two daughters will
hopefully be getting baptized this week. The older one wants to but the
younger one is unsure still. Her mom says she just doesn't want to get
wet in front of everyone and she says she feels like she doesn't know
enough about the church. We'll be working with them a lot this week so
hopefully we work through things. Ana's husband Daniel is going to take a
lot more time though to get baptized and her son Jose is going to take a
lot of time too.
We'll definitely have our work cut out for us.
I'm really hoping I don't get transferred next week but we'll see what happens.
Love you all and hope everything is going well back there!
Les quiero!
Elder Gaskill
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