Big spiritual festival

 This week turned out to be a great week, Elder Villalobos left on Tuesday. We drove to Grandrapids to drop him off, and the Mexican jacked most everything from our house, he took hand soap, hangers, and my freaking weights. All this I figured out after he was gone. Well along with those things, as we sat at the Stake center, he also took our keys. so about 20 mins down the road he got a call from us, he had to ask his new bishop to turn around and come back, and on top of that while they came back the car was so heavy with his stuff that they broke the bishops shocks in the car. It sounded terrible when they came back :) It's rear end was practically dragging on the ground.

 

      After that we got Elder Martin, who is a great guy. He is from Reno, Nevada, he has 2 transfers left on his mission, and he just came from being the zone leader. So its good to have him around. He is also a convert to the Church. He converted a year before his mission, after not believing in God and after his converstion found his real father and learned that that whole side of his family is part of the church. So its a pretty cool story, and a very strong testimony of the truthfullness of the church. It's cool cuz he also is affiliated with bountiful. His companion in the MTC is a MaKay, so he may actually move in with them after the mission. They have a daughter Bridgette, she works down at Ski n See. anyways a great family and fun to know the world is a small place. Anyways he is a great Elder and really helps out the work here aton. We suprisingly do pretty well with Spanish, being three gringos and everyone is suprised that we speak so well. But we get alot of practice, thats the secret. Yesterday we knocked for 5 hours and had 5 let in lessons. during this time we dind't run into anyone that was white. It was a pretty fun day.

 

      This week as far as spiritual stuff, there was no one moment that really was crazy spiritual. The whole mission is kinda just a big spiritual fesitval. If you get what I'm saying. But there was two different lessons taught this week that I thought we kinda special. One was after tracting for 3 or 4 hours in the freezing cold, and having a nasty mist in our face all day. We got to this house, and the guy wouldn't even come down the stairs, he was yelling from around the corner, Elder Draper said something that didn't even make sense, and overall it was a terrible door aproach... but then all the sudden something we said changed the guys mind, he started asking interested questions about the church and we ended up teaching a great lesson with him. The spirit works magic. The next one the same type of thing happened. It was yesterday, we had been tracting all day and actually were having great success, but we came to this door and on it it said. Nacimos y moririmos Catolica, we were born and we will die catholic. We kinda laughed and joked about how this would be a fun door. But after we knocked, everything fell into place, the guy became sincerly interested in what we had to say and let us in. And by the end of the lesson he said if he found out that what we taught was true, he would be baptised. If you rely on the spirit it will guide you in all things. Thats the lesson to be learned here.

 

      Now for the funny stuff of the week. So yesterday, we are tracting and I start the aproach and just basically introduce who we are and what we are doing. Then Elder Martin talks about Christ, and as this is going on we are just holding a normal conversation with the man. Well we look at Elder Draper kinda saying "hey man your turn" with our eyes, and Elder Draper starts in " So this book has a promise that all those who read it ...." I look at Elder Martin to see if I missed him introduce the Book of Mormon... Nope he had the same confused look as I did, as I looked at the man, he was even more baffeled then the both of us. Thinking what in the world is this guy talking about. Finally Elder Martin looks at Elder Draper "so what book are you talking about","well the Book of Mormon of course, ohh wait did you not talk about the book yet." haha then he went into this bad explanation about how when people talk spanish he tends to sleep :) Way to show your interested Elder Draper. It was pretty funny and we had a good laugh.

  

       Next item of bussiness. We were giving a blessing to this lady who had been in a car crash and was also going through some other problems. So Elder Draper was going to annoint and I was going to seal it. Well I don't know why but Elder Draper put his hands on Sister Hardens head. Got half way through the annointing and started to laugh, just a little bit. Sister Harden reached up on grabbed his hands on her head, trying to (i guess comfort him) and he started to laugh histarically, still trying to say the pray though. Haha it was a disaster :) It was the most random thing and it was hilarious. We had him say the anointing again latter and we did the blessing but still haha it was a good moment and a good memory.

 

     

       Lifes great, I'm loving serving and I hope everyone is doing great. I love you all tons, and hope to hear from you all.

 

 Peace, Love, and hey sometimes you make mistakes

Sincerly your finest Elder,

Elder Rushton