Thursday, May 15, 2014

2014-03-30 "Why do you have a bag on your head?!?!

Hello my beautiful family!!! How are yalls doing?! I heard a certain brother of mine is back in the area! Give that man some lovin for me!
Well, as far as I go, my week was super maganda! We found an apartment for the new elders. Now president is not sure whether he wants to do an emergency transfer and split the area now (the most likely thing is that Packard and I will be split if that happens, and Packard will go with the new area) or wait till the end of the transfer.... We shall see. The work was a little bit slower this week but it was still a super good week!!
First, Alma came back from Manila! She left right after we baptized her. She is still going to Saudi Arabia for the next two years starting Thursday, but it was super good to see her again at church yesterday!! She is awesome!
Good news, Tom decided he is not leaving yet! so we will still be having his baptism in.. 3 weeks now? Yeah! I am super pumped for him! Apparently he has just been blindly believing us this whole time, and we finally got him to pray about the Book of Mormon and he got an answer! Finally! It has been strange arguing the counter arguments so that he realizes that there may be a possibility that it isn't true in order to freaking get him to pray about it! But he did pray, and he did get an answer, just like we promised him he would!
The Santillans are amazing! I will try to get a picture for you! There dad had kinda the same thing happen this week as Tom. But he has an amazing testimony, and amazing faith. They are gonna be baptized at the end of the month. They are gonna be having a child probably this week. And the baby will be the Brother of Jared!!! (Jared is his 3 year old brother... cutest kid in the whole world. We are good pals...).
Haha, so one time we were on the jeepney, and I was talking to this old guy, but he couldn't really here. I ended up inviting him to listen to us right before he left, but I had to basically shout it... yeah... after he left I turned around and felt like I was a vulture eyeing my prey! I turned on them and I could feel all the heads looking away from me. Then it was just like, alright, who wants to talk to me next! Bring it on! Hahaha, yeah, woops, cats out of the bag, I want you all to listen to me!!!!
Bah, I always forget the journal..... Well, Cool story about a kid we are teaching. His name is Adrian. He has a phobia of leaving his neighborhood and hasn't even left it in three years. He does everything we ask him though and he has a lot of faith. He wants to serve a mission some day. But cant leave his neighborhood. We've had a string of like, 8 lessons with him that have just been KILLER AWESOME!!!!! Spiritual monster lessons those. Well, he has a lot of faith, but we all decided, its time to start exercising his faith. So we decided, since his problem is fear, we are walking him out to his "boundary," going a little bit further, he gets scared, we have to stop, and then we teach a lesson, bring the spirit really strong, and it chases the fear away. And he can enjoy that area. And then we keep walking, when we have to stop again, we say the closing prayer there, and then walk him home. He progressed a ton this week!!! The main road his about a 15 minute walk from his house. He could walk about five minutes from his house... we are hoping to reach the main road withing the next two weeks or so. It'll be a while before he can make it to church, but it is good to see him exercising his faith and getting out! He's the stuff! Love him.
Well, that's kinda it for this week! I love you all! And I hope you have tons of fun. Dallin still can't get married till I get home, so Dallin, "You better get comfortable down there, real comfortable." -Remember the Titans.

Haha, Peace out Family!

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