A new obsession with hot sauce and .... SNOW!!

February 10, 2014

SNOW!!!

Well this week was a whole heck of a lot better than last week. Lunes we played American football, where my district leader who played football in college took it wayyy too seriously. I juked him on a play and scored so when we changed to soccer he body checked me so hard my plaque dug into my chest and drew blood. It was pretty bad. Some people just well…. We’re all very special precious children of God. Right? ;)


Martes we had consejo de barrio APOSTASIA. There was a man who worked with the bishop who said they would come to church if we could get 10 people together to listen to my business pitch from my church. So our bishop invited him to our consejo de barrio... he’s from the Catholic Church. Yeah that was a great 1 hr of apostastia and then he didn’t even come to church.

Wednesday I found a bottle of tobasco sauce!!! That combined with my soy sauce makes all the rice bearable. (a little update on the food. I actually love it much more, they took away our pinchanista for dinner so in the morning i have bread and jam with some oatmeal and a mango then for dinner I have a can of baked beans and hot sauce or a makeshift quesadilla with bread ha-ha or ponche (whipped eggs with sugar and spices, it’s really good))

Then carnival- I finally got wet. What happens here for carnival is all throughout febrero little kids throw water balloons in the street and try and get people wet with buckets of water. The cumination is 28 when there is a wart with paint and mud and shoe shine and die and water. Yeah I’m a big gringo and a pretty big target, kids come from all over to try and get me wet... my companion and me can run pretty fast... I can run faster than him and he’s fallen a couple times to their balloons ;) We knocked the door of someone who, the same had just been separated from his wife. It’s amazing the people God puts in our path. We are now teaching 5 johenvens who have 17 or 16 anos who read and believe it but the parents won’t let them be baptized.

Viernes started out with service I fell down 3 flights of starts trying to save a Hermana lifting a chair. My butt was soooo bruised ha-ha! My tail bone killed when sitting and walking was a little interesting. As a result the kids got me wet today because I couldn’t run :)

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! I got a package just in a really bad time. I needed it. CANDY HEARTS! And letters! I opened them up and saw “I love you” and I guess a tear come to my eye cause my companion walked in on the scene of me with these candies just crying. He thinks I’m a boob, when it comes to the spirit and my family ha-ha I kind of am.

Anyway, Sabado we taught an amazing family the first vision. They were all crying. He said I believe this is the truth but when we asked them to be baptized he said no. The fear people have here is amazing the fear of changing ones faith and tradition… It was really sad. Anyway, a man in the ward who has a girl serving a mission gave me a leather jacket. (One of the coolest things ever to me) I guess my ...loving... companion (the jackwagon) told him I liked leather jackets. It’s got strips just like wolverine. I felt so bad accepting it. I gave it back to his family Sunday he felt offended I didn’t take his gift so we paid a visit to his house explaining that I was very humbled by the offer but that I am here to serve him not accept a gift like this. So he said he wants me to paint his house, but for the jacket I told him no. He insisted feeling offended so I accepted. I still feel bad. These people here are so giving

Sunday we were teaching a family and they accepted! Our first family! He came to church! I finished reading Jesus the Christ this week and prayed to know my Savior, then I was teaching principios del evangelio, about the life of Jesus Christ when all of a sudden a wave rushed over me. I was so happy it was like the feeling when your foot goes to sleep and you try to stand up that tingly feeling just like that.

Anyway the spirit spoke to me and I know my Savior lives. I know Jesus Christ lives! It was amazing and well I’m here to serve him.

Then today SNOW! We went way up in my area in a bus and touched snow!!!! I was so happy I miss it sooo much!! It was definitely a gift from God.

That’s the message this week

He is risen I know it.

Love,
Elder Grow