30 November 2015

Hi there everyone!!!! Another week down in the "Great Canada Calgary Mission" and almost 365 days since i left behind my life to come serve the Lord for 2 years and learn more about myself than i EVER expected.. I LOVE IT!!! We taught all of our investigators except Harvey and Rosio..... ok, frustrating story about him!! So Sanchez is, well, a native spanish speakers from a Latino country, so people automatically like him because of that, and when he gives people our number, he ALWAYS gives it as if it his HIS number, and they ask for the name to put, and he says Elder Sanchez, so they think it's like his number and they'll be talking with him when they call.. So we tried to confirm our appointment for yesterday, and Harvey had to call us back later in the day and when he did, I answered and he's like "hola Nicolas, como esta??" and i'm like (in spanish) "oh sorry, this is Elder Windham" he's like sorry? "yes, this is elder windham.." who? "elder windham, the companion on elder Sanchez." oh ok.... then he told us that he couldn't meet yesterday, and while he was talking, at some random point, he switched to speaking English...... DUDE!!!!! i'm speaking spanish with you, i'm responding to what you say IN SPANISH, and you're gonna speak English? Sanchez was busting up laughing over on the couch because because we both know that he spoke spanish because, well, i'm white, and english is my first language.... Well at the end of the conversation, we were gonna call him back later in the week to see when they were available, and he's like "yeah, maybe when i call, i can talk to Sanchez." grrrrrr i HATE the latino bond that they all have because he shares similar countries and language with them and whatever. It's nice to be with a latino companion, but it's annoying that they obviously like him more just because he's latino, and it's so annoying..... Oh, Sanchez the tree, oh sanchez the Uruguayo, oh Sanchez the soccer player.. Bleh, thanks for giving us dinner everyday, but would you if he wasn't here? pretty dang annoying.. anyways, i ain't complaining am i? ;) haha! Just one of those things you gotta get through on the mission and learn from.. why can't i be browner?? i AM a quarter Mexican, soooo.... haha! whatevs, i'm learning from all of this so that's good :P We met with Maricel and were gonna meet with Tatian and Juan, but Juan wasn't there, so it was just Tatiana and the member we brought. But we taught them both the Restoration, and they both accepted it really good!! When we asked Maricel if she'd be baptized if she received confirmation that the BOM was true and the church was true, she said possibly.. so that's pretty good!! She's actually reading and praying sometimes she says, so if she reads the book of mormon and keeps praying, we think she'll most likely be baptized :) then when we asked Tatiana, she said probably yes!!!! So she's doing WAY good, and asked a lot of good questions at the end of the lesson and she continues liking all the answers and she's doing really good :) Also, on Saturday, there was a cultural night thing where the different members from different countries did some of their traditional dances and had little stands with food from their countries and it was SUPA FUN!!! At the end, they just cleaned up all the chairs and put on some music and had a little dance thing and we're like NOPE!! time to go!! haha but it was super cool, and a TON of nonmembers came and we talked with a ton of them and it was a really good activity to get nonmembers to and meet them :) we're gonna try and talk to the members who had friends come and see if we can get them to get there friends to start taking lessons :) great finding opportunity!! So yeah, pretty normal week.. I hope Y'ALLS was fun!! I love you guys and can't wait to talk to you on Christmas!! There was already a member who invited us and the other companionship of elders to come to their house on Christmas, so hopefully it'll be god Christmas food and they'll have more than one computer so we don't have to all 4 try and use the same one.. we'll see!! Have a great week everyone and i'll talk to you laterz!! Love, Elder Levi Windham