HolaSounds like it was a rough week. Dont worry at all I always remember our family in my prayers. I will surely remember Caleb in them. I hope everything works out ok. Mary took so long going into details on everything in her letter i started crying. I was just wanting to know if the little guy was safe and in the middle of the suspence she would start telling me about how interesting the technology was! But i´m glad to hear he is safe and i hope and pray the medication will fix whatever the problem is. It sure is hard to hear about something like that being so far from home, but i know that the Lord with watch over and protect him. This week i have been studying alot of different talks by apostles and one talk i just read this morning was by Elder Holland title Missionary Wory and The Atonement. It is a very very powerful talk and he gives a promise to the missionaries at the end of it that families will be watched over and protected. So that was what came to my mind when I read the letters this morning.
As for the work here this week, it has been amazing! I have had some great expariences. But first i have to tell you about new years. It was CRAZY! There were SO many people. We had to be in the house by 9pm so i just sat at the window and watched all of the people go by. The streets were completely crouded with people. We live on the main road going through town and for a few miles the road was full of people. Walking with families and friends, they got to one end of the party and would walk down to the other end. There was music being played everywhere. It was so cool. Tons of people walking around wearing masks and stuff. Once in a while there were groups of grown men dressed as women, all of them are straight though (still trying to figure that tradition out). And then they for new years have alot of dummys, they write on papers all of the things from the old year they want to change and then they put the papers on the dummies and midnight they burn all of the dummies in the streets and light of big fireworks! Like always, there were quite a few drunks but we just hung out in the appartment eating pizza. So it was fun i guess.
Anyways.. about the work. On friday elder Monson and i went on an exchange and visited a couple less actives and tried to contact some investingators but noone was home yet from holidays. So we were in an area where last week elder Castro and I rang the doorbell of a two story house. A lady came out and we asked if we could come by to give a lesson and she agreed. So friday elder Monson and i returned to give her a short lesson. Well noone came to the gate when we rang the bell so we waited for a couple of minutes. Then a car showed up. And the lady that got out we recognized! It was a different lady contacted us a couple of weeks ago because she has a friend that is a member and she wants to learn about the church, but she hadnt given us any information on how to contact her. It just so happened to be that she lived in the second story of this house we were at and she was returning home quickly to grab something she had forgotten when she left a while before! And we just happened to be there (not even knowing she lived there) when she came back. So we scheduled an appointment with her for later this afternoon. After that we went to district meeting an us four elders had a good talk about gaining respect of the members and us not just being friends. We set some good goals and really had a good talk about it. After that Elder Monson and I went to get our haircut by a member lady. When we got done she told us we should go visit her buddy that works across the street at some cabinas. So we walked over and began to talk with him. He has TONS of questions about the church. Alot of them about the plan of salvation, and alot about the restoration. Almost everyone ofhis quistions were questions that traditionally the missionary would ask the investigator in the lessons. Like ´who is God to you´ and ´how do you know if youre in the true church of God´ and alot more like that. So we answered as many question as we had time too and we scheduled a lesson with him for tomorrow! Juan Carlos _____ (he wouldnt give us his last name) not YET! I am SO excited to get to teach him! He is golden! ALSO yesterday at church they combined the to brachen again because people had stopped going when they split it. Abnd yesterday we had alot of investigators come to church. One part member family, an investigating couple, a few inactive families, it was just a great sunday! We got 5 new names of investigators yesterday alone! I also bore my testimony yeterday at church. It was awsome! I got up to the mic. and just opened my mouth and words just came out! Not only did they just come out, but they made sense, they were crystal clear, and through my testimony i didnt hardly make gramatical mistake! WAHOO!! I love spanish and i am so so so very blessed! Diligence is they key to success. Persevere to the end of trials, and you will be blessed and receive a testimony. Ether 12:6 and 2Ne. 31:20
Love you all, thank you for yur love and support, it means everything to me. Stay safe, do whats right, our family will be blessed and Celeb will be watched over. Keep up the faith!
Love you
Elder Morris