X Marks the Spot

JULY 30  (sorry I forgot to post TR)

Allright, well I just read through my email, and well all is well but I feel terrible about Taylors mom, so hopefully this email will stay positive but I´m not sure. To start another week down, and I just passed my 7 month mark, so thats pretty cool I´ve been out for a little while now. Still though I´ve got aton more left, which is good, I love being out here. The life here is good, actually great. And fortunatly it hasn´t been terrible weather here, so its been allright. As far as your letters go I haven´t recieved anything. Not really sure, maybe you send them to the wrong place, or they really are on a slow boat to china. But Yeah I haven´t got any. Some post cards froms gramsy, and 1 letter from the family. So I´m alittle bit out of the loop, not really sure whats going on at home. But I´m hopeing everything is going allright. Dad that stinks about the computer, I wish I could have been home to save it for you. And Z I´ll deffinetly be smaller then you when I get home so, take it easy on my, all the times I hit you were out of love :)

     Well this actually happened acouple weeks ago but I kept forgetting to write it to you guys, Everything is in my journal no worries, I write in it every day. But we were with an investigator and she has been saying no to praying infront of us for along time. And usually if they don´t pray in front of you they don´t pray at all. So we were talking to her for awhile then I pulled out a scripture in 2 nephi 32 That talks about pray and that when you feel like you shouldn´t pray or don´t want to pray that comes from the devil. Well woops, she was pretty silent. But we thought nothing of it. The next time we passed by she wouldn´t come out, and her mom kept saying oh no worries there was just a misunderstanding... We didn´t know what happened. This kept going for a couple of days, then finally she came out one day, and said what happened, and that after I said that she started to feel way guilty... I felt kinda bad and appologized to smooth everything over. In the end everything was allright, but It taught me alot about the spirit and how much guilt it can bring to someone. It was a bad experiance for her, but it was a good one for me haha woops. ( her name is xochi)

     Next story this week we went to the birthday party of one of the members, his name is cristofer and he turned 14. He is way cool, actually his family is way cool. And his parents will be getting married in september so that his dad can be baptised. Which also is way cool, I´m way glad to see that he will be getting baptised. He has a big testimony and really is trying to change his life around, and strengthen his family. Well while we were there we had some fun. I put a battery and a transformer on my tounge, nose, ear, hand, and well yeah you get the point. It was pretty fun, hurt like the dickens but it was fun. No one else would touch it haha. But I started to talk to a man there, he is the brother of the dad. and really I don´t know his name. Well he grew up in guatamala, in the church, was always helping the missionaries, and had a strong testimony of the church, he still has all his stuff from the book of mormon, to his other papers, and cherishes all the memories... But somewhere he went astray, He came to TJ and attended for three months then switched to an apostolic church, he still has a good knowledge of the gospel but has denied all of his testimony of it. Anyways, he is a way chill guy, after I talked to him, I went home and prayed for him, thinking that it would make me feel better about his situation, i still felt terrible and way sad for him. Well in the end, I didn´t sleep at all that night, all night long I sat up thinking about him, I don´t think I have ever felt so sad for someone else, or myself for that matter. I am close to alot of people here, and care for there salvation. But for some reason his soul and his salvation really worries my, I´m not sure what to do about it. He doesn´t live he, so I¨ll just keep praying. But I¨m hoping for a maricle, It absolutly chrushes me to see that someone could forget what once was true and head down the path that will only bring them misery and hurt.

      Last story.... We had been walking for what seemed like forever... Really we had been trying to find a referal for over 3 hours, and had walked over all this mountian to try to find the street. The problem is that the entire colony were this person lives, is illegal, and huge. So there really are no streets, just legends of names, and badly written treasure maps. So as we looked for x marks the spot, in the 110 degree weather, sweating like a pig.. or better yet, like an animal that actually sweats. We came to the top of a house ( being on the top of a mountian) Wanting water, we knocked... and they let us in. Her name is Corina, she hates people that preach, she never lets them in. She doesn´t like to listen to things about god and she is fine with her own ways. Yet when we knocked she felt something different. She let us in, she liked what we said, and now is through 2nd nephi in just 2 weeks of knowing her. Maricles happen, and this is a maricle. She´ll be baptised but unfortunatly she needs to get married first. So she is getting married in september and I´ll baptise her then. God is here, he is preparing the people, He loves them and has sent me to find them. I hope I´m making him proud.

Peace, Love, and My family rocks