April 18

This week was a roller coaster of a week. There were a few ups and
downs, but some cool, crazy things happened!

Tuesday we had district meeting and after that we went to Domingas.
She won't freaking come to church anymore, mainly because her
family has been coming in on Sunday's from Puerto Rico. But while we
were there her husband was eating these boiled eggs and started
choking. I thought he was going to die right there! He was just
coughing up a lung and the daughter in the kitchen is trying to give
him water, but the funny thing is Dominga just looked at him, then
just turned and kept telling us a story haha. I don't know it was
weird. After that we had dinner with Hermano Hungate. He fed us picó
macho. It's pretty much just a manly casserole of steak, sausage,
fries, jalapeños, onions, peppers all in one. It's by far my favorite
food now.

Wednesday we got stuck doing service for Bro Wilson again. We mowed
his neighbors lawn and then he wanted more wood of course. We went
and started chopping wood and the log we were doing was kind of rotten
so he just decided to pack it up and head home because he was tired.
Haha just wasted like 4 hours. After that we just went finding. We went back to Julios just to see what's up. Well, he was there and he
actually let us talk! So we started just talking then that Chris dude
wouldn't shut his mouth and everyone was telling him to chill out,
then finally this huge black lady comes out and starts screaming at
him to leave us alone. He just shut up and was like "yes
ma'am...yes ma'am." It was sweet hahah he looked like a puppy that
just got kicked. Then anyways he invited us back so it was sweet!

Thursday we weekly planned and just tracted, it was really boring,
nothing happened.

Friday we got to do service at the Salvation Army, that was pretty
cool. We got to listen to the 80's Rock station through the warehouse
speakers (haha tender mercy)
And just hang shirts and clothes up. Then out of nowhere Julio walks
in! He said he got kicked out of that house and now he's homeless, but
he said to call him whenever, so we've been calling him but his phone
is dead and his number changed. After that we just busted our butts
finding and found a bunch of sick people! We did that until soccer
that night.

Saturday we just got like every Catholic, Jehovah's witnesses,
baptist, you name it that wanted to bash. It sucked, it was so
irritating and pointless. I HATE BIBLE BASHING. There is no way you
can sit and talk about God and Jesus Christ and his teachings while
having any sort of contention. That is as Hypocritical as it gets!
Plus, these people that try and bash- I swear- are missing half their
brain too. This guy we start talking to, because we were looking for
his cousin, the first few questions he asks is what are you sharing?
(After this one I recognized him from before and I just thought here
we go..) " The Gospel of Jesus Christ" then "oh what gospel?" If this
gives you any clue how smart or attentive this guy is.. Then he just
goes "what book" then he just goes off. He was trying to tell us
there's only 9 commandments, We don't need to be baptized anymore
because Christ already was for the 144,000 that are going to be saved.
Then people try saying, where's Joseph Smith in the bible!? Which is
like the laziest/pathetic bash move someone can pull after they've
just been getting slayed with doctrine or their own bible (Jehovah's)
also mainly because the bible doesn't prophesy anyone by name, no not
even Jesus Christ is mentioned by name in the Old Testament. I don't
know, none of these other religions actually make sense. But it was
another sick day because we found 8 new investigators and taught 12
lessons. We just went to work, it was sweet.
Also we were teaching this guy from Cuba and he actually thought I was
from Cuba too! That just like shot my self esteem about my Spanish
through the roof.

Sunday we went to church and after that we saw the sickest thing ever!
Hahaha we went to this complex and we pull in and park. We just
hear this screaming and its this group of chicks just going at it!
Then all of sudden one comes out with a bat and then these dudes jump
in and tackle the chick with the bat. Then a bunch more dudes jump in
swinging at each other, so at this point there's like 15 people in it!
Then cops show up and start tazing fools, then this dude thinks he's
all bad with the bat and starts swinging at this one dude then he gets
hit with a bean bag shot gun. Everyone scatters or is in cuffs at
this point. It was like the most crazy, heinous 5 minutes of my life
ever hahahahahah. It was so nuts.

Nothing too miraculous happened that was on the good side, besides
just finding a bunch of new people to finally teach. Just this week
I've been really studying faith and baptismal covenants. It's really
sad to me how many are baptized without knowing 1) it's without
authority, 2) they don't even know HOW important baptism is, let alone
how beautiful a covenant it is they could enter if it's done by proper
authority.
Something else this week I've just really noticed is I'm just so glad
I served a mission (and get to learn Spanish) to be here and find out
who I really am. I've never felt so close to my Savior and have felt
my self change for the better and can actually say I like myself or
who I am for once. Well that's my week, this week I get to find out if
I'm out of the Burg after 6 months or no, we'll see!