11 April 2016

WUTUP ERYBUDY?? Did you know that transfers are already NEXT WEEK??? i can't believe how time has already flown by so flippin fast.. and to think, if this was a regular 6 week transfers instead of a 7, transfers would be this week... WOW!!! The mission is passing me by and i don't know where it's going!!!! oh well, i guess it must continue and i must report how it goes for me ;) So this past week was pretty ight. We taught a couple of our investigators and less-actives, which is good!! We met with the Ventura family and taught them a little more about the Book of Mormon and answered some of their questions. They SEEM to have real intent and want to make some progress, but they don't keep any of the commitments and they always cancel our lessons. Oh well, hay que seguir :P We also met with Allan last Monday. they said he watched conference which is good!! The family watched it in English on the main TV, but he watched it in Spanish.. i think.. i don't know if i caught/understood everything, so maybe he just listened to it from the other room..? not sure.. OH WELL!! he did something which is good :) there's a lot of good stuff goin on!! haha ok, so i don't remember if i told you guys about Ligia.. It was a referral we got the other week from some members and she owns a day home and is from Costa Rica. Well, we had been trying to set up an appointment with her for the past week, and she had actually cancelled one that we did set up for Wednesday, and that was a bummer. BUT, we were in the area on Friday and were like "hey, we have some extra time left over (it was like 8:15 at night), let's go by and see if we can set something up." So we went by her house, and they were totally all there!! Her husband answered the door first, and he was like a straight black dude, and i was like ummm boyfriend? NOPE!! He's actually totally costa rican!! he actually comes from a Muslim family, but he didn't really "grow up" Muslim, so he's a Christian with his wife. Well, we talked a bit and he was like "yeah, my wife said she talked with you guys and was gonna meet some time with you, but i didn't now it was at 8:30 at night!" he's like WAY black and it's hilarious, but still super nice. But we ended up setting up and appointment for THE NEXT DAY!!! (Saturday) So we went... and it was AWESOME!!!! We shared the new Easter video with her, and after it all, she was like "wow, you guys believe like the same things about Jesus as we do! and you pray like we do! like when you pray, you are talking to God. a lot of churches don't do that." so something i have found in teaching Evangelicals (at least the ones i know, because some are literally straight anti-mormon) is they have a lot of respect for us as LDS members because we already have a pretty good amount of similarities to their beliefs of Christ :) So yeah, we will start teaching her, her husband, and her younger kid who is 9. I'm really excited for them!! We gave her a copy of the BOM and explained it to her, and she said she will definitely read it and she'll try to have at least half of it done by the time we come back.. isn't that crazy?? she said she likes to read so she's gonna read a bunch of it and she wants to learn all about our church because she previously knew like NOTHING about us. Pues, eso fue la nuestra semana basicamente!! the work is picking up and i'm not quite losing my spanish yet, which. is. good. ;) haha! maybe i'll just make that my catch line now... muahaha!! anywes, have a great week!!! Love, Elder Levi Windham