Monday, December 2, 2013
I love Mondays!!!
Hola!
Well the weeks are really speeding up I felt like I just wrote home haha. Last Monday for our zone activity we had a sweet turkey bowl, wasn't as fun as in Utah but it was pretty fun. Later that night we had a FHE with a family in the ward and it was really fun, e had water bottle chugging contests and shared some of our favorite scriptures. Tuesday we watched the movie Finding Faith in Christ with Zaira and all of her little sibling and it was really awesome they liked it a lot. The rest of the day was pretty slow but we were on our way to dinnner and we were going to be late but we rode past this guy and I had a huge promoting to stop and talking to him so I did and he was this awesome guy that is one of our new investigators this week named Jose.
Wednesday we had an awesome zone meeting and talked about explaining the Godhead better in our first lessons with people and how it will help them become converted. It was a big answer to my prayers about how we can start helping people accept baptismal invitations. Then we had a sweet lesson with this recent convert named Robert. He is a super white guy that barley speaks any Spanish, like me :) haha, and only goes to the Spanish ward because of his girlfriend who goes haha he is super funny and has a really interesting situation because he hasn't told his parents that he is baptized yet but he really loves the gospel. He is 18 so we talked to him about serving a mission and helped him resolve some doubts he had and invited him to fast to know if he needs to serve. We also got to read some of the Book of Mormon with the Paniagua family.
Then there was Thanksgiving!! :) We had dinner with the Vasquez of course and it was a super awesome day. We had a lesson/lunch with a less active family and later found out that we weren't supposed to go there because some other elders had to cast of demons or something there before. But nothing went wrong while we were there and while it was sad to hear the reason they don't come to church and one girl stopped filling out her mission papers was because they love alcohol and don't want to give it up. Really sad. But then we stopped by one of our investigators and she wasn't home but we starting teaching her son and he invited us in and seemed really interested. He said he is Catholic but it just hasn't made a ton of since to him growing up. He is a really cool dude. So Thanksgiving was awesome and I ate too much food haha but oh well.
Friday was a good day we taught Belen and Efran some good lessons in the morning and we had dinner with the Paniagua family and taught they about fasting and even though they looked at us like we were crazy when we invited them to fast about if they should be baptized on the 29th of December, they accepted and are super awesome. We had volleyball that night and elder Maughan reached to hit the ball, fell, and ripped a huge hole in his pants right where you don't want them to. Those pants are done for haha and we had to hurry and get him home to change.
Saturday we had exchanges and elder Wagstaff came to my area and I was senior companion for a day. It was a lot of fun and it is cool to see how other missionaries work. We found this homeless guy who was on the ground and looked like he was in a lot of pain. We stopped and tried to help him but he said he thinks he broke his left and wanted to stay there. He was starving and thirst so we gave him some cookies and vitamin water and just talked to him for a little bit but he didn't want anymore help but it was an interesting experience. I am really really blessed!
Yesterday was a really awesome day, it started out as a pretty normal Sunday and when we went out knocking we just didn't feel right and we were just not teaching how we wanted to and everyone was rejecting us. We were pretty down by the time we got to dinner at the bishop's house. It was his sons birthday and we had tons of good food and cake and music after, it was super awesome and really got us pumped to go teach. We went to an referral that we got and one of our investigators sons answered and while the referral wasn't there he told us he wasn't doing anything so he invited us in and wanted to hear more. We had an amazing lesson with him and he is just an awesome dude. His name is Luis and he remembers missionaries coming to his house when he was little but now he is just trying to figure out what to do with his life. I love helping people and having answers to their deepest questions. Love the work, love The Lord, and I love you guys :)
Love,
Elder Hyde
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