So the news came and Elder Kirkham and I are staying here in Tecnológico!! ...which we are excited about! #keepingthegringocompstreakgoing but yeah so these past two weeks have been good! We had the opportunity to go visit investigators with President Palmer twice in the past two weeks which is super rare but also a lot of fun! The first time he only had 45 minutes so we only were able to have one lesson. It was with a recent convert who has been struggling a lot and he was able to help her. President Palmer actually was the one who baptized her, so he knew her story enough to help her. One of the reasons she's been struggling was because her 18 year old son, who we are teaching, hasn't been able to stop drinking and smoking. He's been a big challenge for her. It was actually because of him that President came back with us this week. Darian wanted to talk with him. President came with us yesterday and the first thing Darian said was, "You baptized my mom and I want you to baptize me." We were surprised because first he said that even before saying hi and second he has shown a desire to change but not a super big desire to be baptized! We set a baptismal goal with him as well as a plan to help him stop drinking and smoking. Part of that plan was for us to go running with him in the mornings... so now we will run every morning for our exercise, it should be fun!
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| A tourist place called Malecon in our area! |
The other interesting events of the past two weeks was finding two new investigators who want to get baptized! One was a referral from the church named Victor, idk if I've mentioned him yet, but he's awesome! He came to church yesterday and loved it! He's an older man who was homeless, drunk, and an addict, but he went to Alcoholics Anonymous and picked up his life. He's a taxi driver and gives us free taxi rides home whenever we teach him which is always awesome because he lives pretty far out. The other promising investigator is named Jason, he has a few special needs so his mom wants to talk with us before moving along with him, so we shall see what's up tomorrow. We found him Saturday, we were just walking to a lesson and he called to us. We shared lesson one and he said he was going to church a while ago and was going to get baptized but his mom didn't let him... now he is an adult so we will see what happens with him!
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| We went to Malecon with Sergio! Elder Kirkham bought a fun hat! |
We also had a few days this week when it started to rain a ton! I haven't seen rain like that since before the mission and at first we were super excited! However, we very quickly learned why the members always said they hate when it rains... After it rains and the sun comes out, the humidity gets insane! So that was a major struggle... 100 degrees and humid is not a fun combo for missionaries.... but yeah that was the interesting parts of the weeks! Hope you all have a great week! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL:
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| The rain!! |
Elder Gurney
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