Aha! This week has been crazzzy. All in a good way. I promise that is true. Let´s just cut straight to the stories shall we? It´s my favorite part anyways. We´ve had a lot of problems this week. But again, in a good way. Or, atleast they were all funny.
Okay, so we´re teaching, well no, that´s a lie. We want to be teaching this family, two girls studying in college, very evangelistica, never have time for a full lesson, but always promise they want to listen (probably a lie, but you never know). And Tuesday we go in and try to teach them, but they are literally running around trying to leave. But they have just enough time to make us something to eat...because it´s rude not to. So we´re sitting there, she gives us a little snack, and then comes in with two hot mugs of...? Tea. Now, we had told her that we don´t drink tea. We do the herbal stuff, but nothing that actually contains tea. She must have forgotten, or doesn´t actually have any of the herbal variety. So, we´re sitting there looking at it, not knowing what to do, while she runs around and tries to get ready to leave. What do we do? Problem! And we didn´t want to offend her because we still want to teach her. Luckily, she got a phone call and goes into the other room. Hermana Jones and I look at each other. What do we do? So, jokingly, I say ¨.....uh, throw it out the window.¨ ¨............okay.¨ So she takes her mug, walks to the window, opens it, chucks it off the balcony. Then takes mine, does the same thing. Unfortunately, she throws the tea bag that was in mine down the 5 stories along with the tea. Well great. Now I´ve got a mug with no tea bag. What do I tell her? Uh...sorry? I was hungry? NO! So, we start cleaning up everything and put all the mugs and plates in the kitchen for her. Good news. We still have a return appointment.
Oh, and then this week we had a couple days of training with the President (mostly for those in training positions. We wer invited because Hermana Jones is still training me). And after one day we were just fired up and ready to go teach and invite and we were challenged to pray before knocking every door, and we were doing it. And we just had this day of rejections. Every door, either no one was home, or didn´t have time, or told us flat to our faces that they weren´t interested. Problem? Yes. We dropped a lot of our investigators that day. One particularly fun memory was with two 14 year old girls, one of which reminds me distinctly of Fallyn. They come to the door and just start out with ¨look, i just want to be sincere with you. We´re not really interested. I´m really catholic, and we read in your book and prayed about it (lie) and it´s just not really for us. And the owner of this apartment wants you to stop bothering us and yeah. We´re not interested.¨ So, we politely ask, okay, well is there anyone else who might be interested in this apartment? and she responds, uh, Let me go see. Wait here just a second. Shuts the door, locks, it and yells ¨Ciao Hermanas! muahahaa¨through the door......She´s not an investigator anymore. Good news: It was really funny. We don´t force anyone into the Celestial Kingdom. We invite them. And when they get a little crazy, we politely wait until they´re not around anymore before chuckling to ourselves. I wish I could fully explain this girl. Her hands were flying all over the place, talking rapid spanish, repeating herself 4-5 times. And we were just sitting there going ¨okay, if you don´t want it that´s fine. As long as you actually did read and pray. You can´t close the door without actually trying to know for yourself.¨ So funny.
And then we had a baptism this week. The fun part of baptisms is the week before you need to have daily contact, because Satan is going to try to get them to change their minds, bad things usually happen, etc. There is always opposition. Well this week the opposition came in the form of not actually seeing our investigator all week. He doesn´t have a cell phone, he didn´t answer his land line. Problem! So, we´re stressing out all week, calling him nightly, he never answers. Praying so hard. This is our most incredible investigator and all the sudden he´s dropped off the face of the earth! What the...? No good. Good news: He calls US Friday night. Not only is he okay, he´s fantastic. He´s found us 3 new investigators, set up an appointment for the next day, and is totally stoked for his baptism. Whew! Relief! That was fun. Kind of. He did get baptized, he´s still amazing, he loves sharing his testimony, and we gave him a Preach My Gospel to help him study because he wants to go on a mission too. He will do great things.
Do I have any problems? Yes. Plenty. But it´s okay. It all seems to work out in the end. And I´ve been doing a lot of repenting, and I´m trying to open up more to the people and everything. Whew, what great fun. Doesn´t this sound exciting? Emotional rollercoaster that it is. I´m so glad I´m here. I´m glad to hear everyone is doing well.
Love you all. Thanks for your prayers.
Hermana Reed
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