So I`ve already told you about how much I love these people, but now I feel like that`s such an understatement. Honestly the day that I leave Caja de Agua will be the saddest day of my life. My heart is here. And obviously I`m going to love the people wherever I'm serving and I know I don't have any other area to compare it with but there is something special about the people here and we`re going to see some miracles here in Caja de Agua very soon.
One of the people we teach told us about a personal problem that came up in their life that is really hard for them and it broke my heart because I already love this person so much. Also a mother of three really strong active kids went inactive this week because she has a friend that has been trying to convince her that our church is evil. She doesn`t defend what she`s known all her life and now she has become really really antimormon. She wont let us into her house so we talk to her kids outside. I feel like if I had known this person back home before my mission I would have been extremely judgmental, but the love that I feel for this woman and her family is immense. I realize that this woman needs a missionary that is a lot better at being a missionary than I am right now. And I realize that my love for these people needs to be proportional to what I'm willing to do to be the missionary that they deserve. These people are my motivation now and I`m studying harder, praying more, and just keeping these people in my heart at all times.
Elder Torres and I started running in the mornings and it makes me really happy to be running again. We run up the mountain 4 or 5 times and then run around the flat part of Caja de Agua for a while. Also, I`ve kind of become famous in our ward as the first white missionary in a long time that actually eats everything that the members cook for them. So now we have lunch appointments with members almost every day because everyone wants to cook for the missionaries that won't waste their food.
Some of the people here are just so prepared by God to receive this message, I'll share just a couple of experiences I had this week. We were looking for a reference that we got this week and he lived in a part of our area that we don't really know very well at the very top left of the mountain. We couldn`t find his address so we knocked on a door close to where we thought it was and an elderly couple, Evelin and Alfredo, answered the door and told us where he lived but that he was out of town. But they invited us in because they love talking about God. We talked for a while about God and they told us every dream they`ve had in the past 40 years. And we felt that we should teach them about the plan of salvation, and when we told them that families can be eternal Alfredo stood up and gave his wife Evelin a hug and kissed her on the cheek. They then accepted the invitation to baptism.
Another experience we had we were talking in the street with one of the young men in our ward, Jairol. and a man came up to us and told us how much he loves working on his family tree. It was really weird. Elder Torres needed to answer a question that Jairol had, so I talked to the man. I told him that we also really like working on family history in our church and I showed him my family history booklet that I`ve been working on and told him that we have a family history class on Sundays and that we would like to visit him sometime at his house. He got really excited about it and accepted, and that was crazy. I honestly never thought family history would ever be a beginning teaching point, but it`s really cool.
Okay I think that`s all I'm going to be able to talk about this week I`m physically exhausted from how much I threw up last night and this morning, so I'm typing really slowly.
Hope you guys are doing great! Love you.
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Oh my!
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