So for those who read this letter and aren't in
my family, I talked to my parents for a while yesterday, it was great
to hear their voices, and because I talked to them on the phone there
really is no new update sorry...
No I think I can scrounge something up, this
week we did have one pretty cool moment. Which I think is this week but
maybe I sent it last week to... not sure. An Investigator named Bob
Tracey, he has been meeting with the Elders for 2 years now, and
honestly has gone no where. But me and Elder Welch started really
working him hard, trying to see if, by being persistent and more then
anything, not answering his questions in full but showing him where he
could find the, we could change him. He smokes alot, doesn't have a job,
has a warrent for his arrest, drinks easily 4 pots of coffee a day(48
cups, 5000mg of caffeine) isn't married and on top of all this said, he
doesn't have a desire to quite anything and he told us last week that he
didn't even understand why coffee was bad. We have been trying to work
with him so that he will have a desire, and Last time I told him that as
he changes the little things in his life first, the spirit will be with
him more, and then he will be able to feel guilt for his sins and also
be able to change them. Well we left last week, and on the weekend he
shined us, but then Tuesday we went back, and he
completely surprised us. We started talking to him, and just casually he
threw out that he had completely stopped drinking coffee. He says that
he had the worst headache ever but, it really is a miracle for him to be
able to do that. He also says that he will get married. I won't be
around to see any of this, but it is sweet to see that he wants to
change.
Besides that, for those not on the phone yesterday, I weighed
myself last night, and I'm up 20 pounds, I'm 190.... whats up haha. Some
is muscle, most is fat. From my knee surgery I still have alot of easy
muscle to put on in my legs, so biking and walking have put some muscle
there, now for the rest of it all though.... most definitely fat. Which
is probably a blessing though. I'm sure its just God protecting me
from..... My ridiculously good looking .... haha, no its more like God
punishing me for not eating right. Yesterday, I ate 6 deep fried Hot
dogs, on Hamburger buns (pretty good actually) and aton of fries....
then some ice cream just to make sure everything went down smooth.
TJ I can't wait for you, I don't want to be feed, I want to
only speak Spanish, I don't want to have to explain all this
anti-Mormon everything, and more then anything.... You know what... I
love it here, I was meant to be here. I just hope I got what I need out
of it. I hope I changed the lives or planted the seeds only I could, and
really I hope that because of my experience here I'll be a better
missionary in Tijuana.
Oh one more thing, We get the car for 2 weeks then walk for
one. Our area is so big though, that just to get the car takes up 100
miles. Then this month the President needed us to drive a couple places
to pick up stuff for my Visa. Like Detroit. So we have no miles. And are
out of the car for the rest of the time we have it. haha.
About Detroit, its sweet. The City is crazy and way run down.
It looks totally ghetto and nasty, but its a pretty cool city. People
are actually generally pretty nice, but all in all I would hate to live
there. But the Stadiums are sick. We went past Ford Stadium, Comerica
and the Red Wing Stadium.
Peace, Love, and Life is about to Change in Mexico.
Elder Rushton
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete