Sweet! I cashed my government check. (tax return) Walmart is stupid and were just like, "it's not letting me cash it for some reason, I don't know why. Sorry!" So then I went to a grocery store called Smiths and did it there. The guy there wasn't a member, but has a lot of friends on missions and he didn't even charge me the 3 dollars. Super nice, right?
I love my new companion. Sister Hutchinson and I have a very similar sense of humor, lots of fun. She's very self conscious about her Spanish, though, which I can relate to... but I hope I can help her because I've been there done that kind of thing. Ha. So far it's been fun, though. I hope we get 2 transfers together and she kills me.
New Spiderman movie wasn't good? Bummer... who was the villain? Does Gwen die in it..? I just wonder because she dies in the comic books.
I know you'll give a great talk on Sunday! You always do.
Well, we're still working on finding that family Ramos! Ha. I have faith that something good's happening soon. This past week we set up a lot of return apts for this current week, so we'll see where that goes. We met an 82 year old woman who can barely hear or see..but she has interest, so we're going to try and teach her. Helen and Gloriney, who both live in boulder city, will be going out of town...Gloriney until the end of June and Helen just for a week...Helen needs more time to be baptized. She said she would like to be baptized, but she wants to continue going to catholic church, too. She also didn't know why it was something super important to be baptized into our church if she was already baptized in the Catholic church...as a baby. We brought out Moroni 8 on that one and also talked about being baptized by immersion by the AUTHORITY of the priesthood, which the catholic church does not possess. She understood and her questions were answered, but she needs more time. We invited her to pray to know if this church truly is the only one with that authority to baptize and she said she would. She already loves the BOM, so we testified of that as well being the evidence. We'll see. I have no doubt she'll be baptized...it's just a matter of when. We don't want to baptize someone who will still go around telling everyone she's Catholic. But she loves the church and thinks it has the best values and lifestyle.
We found another solid potential investigator my last week with Sister Hill, but she'll be out of state until July...so, summer vacation is really putting a dent in our finding efforts. Ha.
We also met a former investigator with alzheimer's. He told us his wife was there and let us in. Turns out his wife didn't want to come out of her bedroom, he called to her like 10 times. He repeated the same conversation 7 times. "De donde vienen?" and every time we told him, he goes, "Chihuahua? Juarez?" and after we say, "no, somos de los estados unidos" he goes, "....aqui es su casa!" 7 times. He also told us, "las dos son bien guapas! Muy bonitas. Me gustaria casarme con una de ustedes. Tenemos un cuarto donde pueden vivir." Super funny. We left pretty swiftly.
We also street contacted the ultimate hoarder. He had a yard full of stuff and we helped him unload a truck full of more junk. He goes dumpster diving all the time... my first thought was that he must sell this stuff, but then he told us, "I've got so much stuff, I guess I should consider selling some of it." He also told us about his girlfriend who currently wasn't living with him...told us all about her disturbing life and how she's lived with old men, rapists and stalkers ever sense she was 15. Pretty weird stuff. Then some random guy drives up on a bike, says hi real quick, and then goes inside the man's house. We then say goodbye to go to our dinner apt next door and he shakes our hands and goes, "I don't know that guy (referring to the one with the bike), but he's got keys to my house." Super interesting.
We're working hard, we really are!
Yesterday something pretty precious happened in gospel principles. The lesson was on eternal families. One of the recent converts told the teacher his wife died a little over a year ago and he didn't want to get remarried. The teacher told him he didn't have to get remarried to have an eternal family. He told him he could get the work done for his wife and he could be sealed to her in the temple for time and eternity. He started crying, I'm pretty sure it was the first time he ever heard that. That same night we went to a "Why I Believe" fireside and one of the speakers shared how her youngest son committed suicide at 15 years old. He died in his father's arms, putting a shotgun to his head. Apparently his father tried to restrain him, but it didn't work. She shared how learning about the restored gospel helped her get through that dark time in her life. One of the things she shared was that growing up she studied with the Jehovah's witnesses and apparently they don't believe we have souls. She said that after her son died, she felt his presence at different times in her life and just felt that what the J-witnesses believe wasn't true. That knowledge of the plan of salvation and a clearer understanding of the necessity of the fall of Adam and Eve and how it was part of the plan all along, were things that drew her to the waters of baptism. And just last week her son was baptized in the temple.
What a huge blessing that we have temples in these days. I'm so grateful for this gospel. I'm grateful for Joseph Smith and his example of true faith... and to know that through him, the church of Jesus Christ has been brought back to the earth again. Why would a loving Heavenly Father want us to wander in darkness, anyway? I've come to really love Ephesians 4:11-14. That foundation of prophets and apostles truly provides that anchor in our lives...so that Christ's church and God's true nature doesn't get twisted and distorted and we always know to which source we can trust - that same organization that was established from the beginning through that same priesthood authority.
I love you all!
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