Flaming Cockroaches of Death!!

So this header is meant to a drum roll, so I'll get to that story toward the end. :)

Basically, Jerry's family all got baptized when Jerry was like 4, so Jerry was too young at the time, and since then, his family went completely inactive. He was found recently by some sisters who were visiting a list of Less Active members. Jerry (despite the indifference of his parents) decided that he wants to be baptized! Unfortunately, these sisters hadn't started teaching him any of the discussions. Elder Wride and I just took over the area and helped him begin his journey toward baptism! We got super creative with our lesson plans this week. Jerry is a 9 years old with the energy of an energizer bunny. So our usual method of teaching needed some altering if we were going to teach to his needs. Elder Wride is a big goof, so it's been a great experience teaching with him! :) This week we pondered up some great object lessons to help teach the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. Jerry has shown excellent comprehension and progression since we've met him. He's is well on his way to be baptized on the 27th this month.

Awkward story of the week:

We were visiting our beloved less active member this past Saturday and she invited us back to eat dinner on Sunday night. We asked if it would be alright if we could bring a man, because we aren't allowed to enter a house if it's a single woman. She said it was fine with her, so we made that a plan and were going to bring a man at 5:00 and have ourselves a good ol' Latino dinner. So on Sunday, we made arrangements to pick up our guy, and arrive to our dinner appointment. And we show up and knock and there is no answer... So we knock again, and there's still no answer... :( We felt awkward for bringing this guy along with us to a flake, so we gave her a call. She answered the phone and told us she was right down stairs and that we should just come down and talk to her.

A few minutes later, we find her out by the apartment complex pool. She's wearing a bikini and a towel, and completely confused as to why we were there. She completely forgot about us. :( After talking for a second she realized that we were there for our set dinner appointment, but I was all set to just cancel it and try again some other day, but she felt so guilty that she insisted that we stay and eat. Obviously she was unprepared. I felt bad staying and making her cook something, but she dragged us along and made us eat her left over lunch... which was tostados on dirty plates. And we just sat quietly in her kitchen as she walked through the house changing her clothes. Most. Awkward. Meal. Ever.

So as far as the flaming cockroaches of death goes:

I had to sit inside for like half the week because of my surgery last week. So I was in Recuperation mode until Thursday. But since we were home and had a lot of time, we started doing some deep cleaning of our apartment, which led to us finding a whole mess of cockroaches. They all got stuck to some duct-tape that was laying out, and so we decided to exterminate them!

... Long story short, the FLAME THROWER we made didn't work very well. And I ended up burning my finger SUPER bad.

On the plus side, I have been studying the book of mormon so much more recently, and I'm really starting to get the story line behind it all. It's a super good book! My favorite story is still Abinadi in the book of Mosiah, but Nephi's big Brass-plate heist is a solid one as well.

Love you all! Thanks for the support!

I'm doing well! :)

Elder Webster