Dear loved ones!
I'm glad to hear things are going so well for everyone.
Shout out to my mom for entering the business world once again. Shout out to
Elder Webster por los intercambios divertidos y los investigadores que estan
progresando.
Elder Muniz and I have enjoyed a full week of finding and
teaching. For various reasons niether Mariela, Eurogio, nor the Ramirez's could
meet with us this week. They are the investigators that we normally focus on,
but this week, we were able to focus our efforts on finding some new people! :)
Meet Lieutenant Dan:
We met the uncle of one of our Less active members this
week. unfortunately, he's not interested in the slightest about what we have to
say... But he makes for a good story! He's about 40 years old, and he is
completely deaf, and has one leg, and has a passion for singing and song
writing. He's a fairly bitter man who has a real potty mouth and will continue
to talk and talk and talk because he can't hear when you are trying to talk
back to him. He can talk to us totally normally, but he lost his hearing and
his leg in a war. So when we had something to say, we would write it down on a
paper and put it in the air, and then he would read it and then keep talking.
He sang us a couple of (inappropriate) songs he wrote at the top of his lungs.
And his family insists that he is very good, so he just keeps doing it. We
tried saying something that might interest him about the life after this life
and about how we will be able to have perfected bodies and have perfect health,
but he really wasn't all that interested..
Meet Oscar:
We got a phone call from some of the english-speaking elders
this week and they told us that they were standing by a man that spoke only
spanish and they wanted us to translate over speaker phone for them! His name
was Oscar, and he was basically begging these 2 elders to follow him to his
house to have a lesson, but they had no idea what was going on. haha We ended
up telling Oscar that Elder Muniz and I would be happy to meet him at his
house, but that the 2 missionaries he was with wouldn't be able to communicate
very well. haha We showed up and he legitimately asked us to baptize him as
soon as possible and that he would do everything we asked him to do. We set a
baptism date for him on April 18th, but he said that was too far away, so he
moved it the April 11th. He just wants to get baptized! It was a crazy random
miracle. sadly, upon further inspection, we learned that he lives outside of
our boundaries, so we had to give him as a referral to the missionaries that
cover his house... :( So now Elder Castleberry and Elder Yellowhorse are
teaching him.
Lastly, Elder Muniz and I decided to find a more effective
service opportunity because cleaning the streets has become a little...
disgusting. So as of this last Saturday, we are officially registered as
volunteers at the Hercules Public Library! WHOO! I'm pretty excited about that
actually. It looks like a good way to brush up on my Dewey decimal system.
Jose Figueroa (the boy I interviewed for baptism a couple
weeks ago) got confirmed a member of the church yesterday! And I get to give
another interview this Saturday! But this next guy only speaks Portuguese. I've
met him a couple times, and it seems like if I speak Spanish and He speaks
Portuguese, we can still understand each other. But I'll let you know how that
goes. :)
Gunna be a good week!
Love you all!
Elder Webster
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