Hola a todos!
So this week was pretty fun! My companions are super funny
and mess around all the time. We are always laughing! We have some inside jokes
and funny one-liners that we just bring up all the time. For example, on Monday
we got Dairy Queen on our way home that night. Elder Loo meant to ask how much
medium fries cost but instead asked what size is the medium. Lol.
Tuesday, we had a pretty cool lesson with someone we found
contacting last week. After her we had another lesson with this girl named Anayely.
She had previously had a baptism date but then cancelled cause her dad said no.
We had the opportunity to talk to the dad and he said yes so it was a huge
miracle!
Wednesday we did service in the Casa de Esperanza. It's a
food bank type thing so we help get packages together and then take them out to
people's car. We had a lesson with Sam and Emilio. It went ok but it was super long,
and they had a whole bunch of questions that we were answering. I feel like
they could progress though. Then we drove an hour to a lesson in the middle of
nowhere and this lady isn’t down to keep commitments, but she did feed us! Then
we had a youth activity. We had more than 1 person show up! We played Uno. Then
that night we had another lesson with Anayely and she said her mom is now
saying no to her getting baptized so she cancelled it once again and is going
to tell us later when everyone is in agreement on her getting baptized.
Thursday, we set up for movie night. Then we had lunch with
the owner of Casa de Esperanza. He is running in the election, so he also gave
us shirts and masks with his swag. Then we had a lesson with Carina and she
said she wants to get baptized and is going to pray when she should do it! Then
that night we were out contacting, and our last contact was this kid playing
outside with a PVC pipe. As soon as I called to him a whole bunch of dogs came
barking. He kept swinging his PVC pipe at them. His parents weren't home, so I
asked him to give a card with our number on it to them. As I was writing our
number he turned around to the dog and yelled shut up as he threw the pipe like
a spear at it. It was probably the funniest thing we had seen that day and we
all started to laugh. You just had to be there.
Friday, we did some weekly planning and then went to a
lesson. Her and her daughter were home and they seemed super cool and prepared
too! Then we had dinner with a member. It was super good! Then had our movie
night. The sisters had chosen to play Ratatouille and so we started it, but
nobody came so we had to end it and then just found on Facebook. That night we
prepared for Zone Conference that is coming up.
Saturday, we cleaned the church. Then did more planning for Zone
Conference. We also had this funny contact with a lady. She had some peppers
and Elder Allred and I asked to try them. He was crying and I had swallowed
mine and it was now burning my chest and I couldn't talk. I tried saying bueno
and it came out bleno. So Elder Loo had to do the contact himself. Then this
German shepherd came out and my companions are kind of scared of dogs. The lady
told them that this dog had bit her. It ended up running over to us and so she
gave us small sticks to defend ourselves. Luckily, no one got bit and left
after making a return appointment. We had a lesson with a friend of a less
active member. He has some addictions but reached out to us wanting to change.
The lesson was going well until his friend pulled up and started telling him he
couldn't change and that he was lying to himself and stuff like that which aren't
true! Everyone can change through Jesus Christ. If we repent and use His atonement,
then we can be forgiven and have a change of heart! I hope that both of these
guys we are teaching can come to understand that more.
Sunday Elder Loo was packing for most of the day. We had
some meetings and then a dinner appointment. There we played some magic and the
family’s daughter has a lot of energy and so we were trying to keep her
occupied lol. It was basically impossible. Then we got a picture cause Elder Loo
is leaving.
I realize now this is a super long email. Definitely didn’t
mean it to be so long. Have a great week!
Elder Tolman
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