11 January 2016

Hola uno, hola todo!!! i'm pretty sure that isn't actually a phrase in spanish, but OH WELL!! How is everyone?? I'm personally doing pretty ight if i do say so myself. till looking, as the title says, but that's ok. One can still find happiness in slower times :) so, once again, all our investigators couldn't meet this week.. It's weird because like the lessons we have had have been super good lessons and they liked everything we talked about.. hmm well, idk! we'll just have to wait for a chance to meet again and see what the delio is :P i hope and pray that they actually want to keep going but are just busy!! howeva, besides our investigators, we have our AWESOME less-actives!!! We had an amazing lesson with them on Thursday after we had dinner with them :) all 3 companionships in the spanish ward went so it was pretty cool. They made some turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, rice.. just a very good dinner :) it was El Dia de Reyes, which... has a story to it that would take several minutes to explain ;) haha! anyways, they wanted to have us all over on wednesday, but we wouldn't all be able to go, so they moved it to Thursday instead. HOLY COW that was stinkin good!!! it was the thanksgiving dinner that i didn't have on thanksgiving.. haha! but the lesson was GREAT!! We talked about temples and how eternal marriages and families work. He asked some deep questions and eventually it boiled down to "well, we don't know exactly how it's goin to work, but we trust and believe that God does, so we go forward hoping that in the eternities, everything will be figured out.." But it was AWESOME!! I think he really has a better idea of sealings and why it's important and so crucial to do :) not to mention he loves his kids and wife and future kid.. YEAH BUDDY!!!!! I love that guys a lot and they're such an awesome family :) so we tried to meet with the Munoz boys, but when we got there, they were all asleep except the 15 year old kid (who probably has the best chance of the other 2). But we just went in and talked with him for like 45 minutes or so and at the end, we decided we're gonna come back on friday and make some cookies with them :P haha! So we're pretty much just gonna stop trying to convince them of anything and just be their friends and set a good example :) that's just what some people need!! not a teacher, but a bud. and in this case, a teacher would pretty much be wasting his time :P however, to quote every Will Smith meme ever, "I ain't even mad." Besides that, this week had a lot of less-active stop bys trying to get addresses right, and of everyone who answered, they were all wrong addresses.. kind of a bummer, but we did get in one door, and they were way nice!! they asked us for our dinner calendar so they could sign up on it, so that's pretty dope :) but yeah, we've heard mixed reports about them, so we'll just see what really happens :) anywes, i hope everyone's been doing good, and i wish you all a great week with plenty of missionary opportunities!! Esta obra es mas importante que nada, y nunca van a encontrarse infeliz si aceptan la obra misional como parte de su vida :) basically just be great friends to everyone and you'll do your part!! there's even a talk about just being friends, and if that's all you do, then you'll find yourself being a greater member missionary than you ever imagined :) until next week! Love, Elder Levi Windham