1 February 2016

Hellooooooooo everybody!! Sorry this is coming a little late today. We had to run some elders to the mission office after they took their car in to the dent clinic and then we got here a little late and there are NO COMPUTERS, so I'm typing this all up on the phone and sending it on the computer after saving the draft.. Ain't that lame?? Whatevas though, it's basically like typing a big text message and we have iPhones so it's not really that bad ;) So this past week has been pretty chill I guess you could say. With transfers Coke another zone goal setting meeting/get to know you. That was a WAY cool meeting. We have some awesome leaders and the things we all talked about really kinda smacked you in the face like hey, stop doing good, and do better... SO DOPE!!! Also, not to mention, there are SO MANY young people in our zone!!! Seriously, I think close to half of the zone has been out for 6 months or less.. What the!! But eese all good, I'm just getting to be an old fart in the mission.... Speaking of which, on Wednesday, it will have been 14 months since the day I flew up to the MTC...... WHERE IS THE TIME GOING??? Ok, on a less depressing note, we taught the Rojas family again!! We only taught brother Rojas though since sis. Rojas was busy tending to other guests. But we talked about the temple, and we told him how we want to set a goal for him and his wife to start trying to prepare themselves to be able to be sealed in the temple as a family, and he liked that idea :) Also, we went by Abdula, but didn't get a chance to really teach him anything, so we left the first three pamphlets for our lessons that we teach and asked the mom who lives there if she could give them to him and she said she would. Well, come Sunday and we talk to the sisters who work in that ward and they told us that apparently he's been reading the pamphlets and and told the mom that it makes his heart feel warm, and kinda did it by putting his hand over his chest and being like "oohhh, that feels good" or something like that.. Haha! He ALSO apparently asked her son to teach him how to play the piano (it's against Muslim law to play instruments or something like that) and the mom asked him about it and he's like "well, it's just like reading these pamphlets. Why should I stop there?" YEAH BUDDY!!!! So hopefully he actually like goes for it and DOESN'T stop there :) haha! This weekend was the stake conference for the Confederation park stake (the one the Spanish ward pertains to) and on the Saturday night adult session, is was ALL about missionary work, and one of the speakers was a girl who had just gotten baptized on FRIDAY!!! Can you imagine? Getting baptized and having to talk the day after in stake conference..? That'd be CRAY!! So with all dis cool stuff goin down, you guys want to hear an even CRAZIER story??? So yesterday we were walking down a street super close to where we live, and as w were walking, a car drove by... Nothing special, just an old dude driving. Well a couple seconds later, I heard what sounded like a tire blowing up, and we turned around and saw the car that JUST drove by us pushing another car down the street, and then hitting another car with that one. We ran down and it was that OLD MAN!!! He apparently had a stroke and just like looked off at nothing, hit the accelerator and smashed into the cars on the side of the street. The grandson in the car with him was unharmed, but the grandpa sounded like he was snoring and wasn't responding to anything. The ambulance came and took him off, and the cops who came said they don't think he'll survive... Isn't that crazy??? But some good came from it!! One of the cops on the scene was a member and I suspect he may be less-active, and just doesn't have the cleanest language... And we helped these people move in while we were waiting to receive the report to fill out, another lady invited us to have some herbal tea and warm up in her house, and the people we helped move in told us to come back by some time... That's so cool!! So as some old folks pass from this life to the next, they can somehow open up people's hearts and create an atmosphere of acceptance and love :) So that was our weeks. Meetings and car crashes. Quite an adventure I'd say :) I hope everyone is doing great and having fantastic missionary opportunities open up for them :) take care, and until next week!! Love, Elder Levi Windham