Hi Everybody!
So this week was busy as always. here are some of the highlights:
We
had our mission Christmas party. It started with leadership training,
hen a big lunch(more like Christmas dinner) and then a talent/variety
show. My district participated by performing the Hakka (a Polynesian
tribal war dance done to psyche everyone up and strike fear into the
hearts of the enemy). That was fun. at the end Santa and Mrs. Clause
came by and President Neider (the mission president) and his wife seem
to have disappeared. We all had a good time.
This is the Hakka. That's me in the back with the
purple tribal skirt. Sorry it's blurry, but you get
the idea.
I had a Miserably awesome day on Thursday. I went
on exchanges with some of the Spanish speaking elders so I could get in
some more practice with the Language. it went from noon Thursday to noon Friday. I was on bike, with a cold, and the day I'm riding a bike
everywhere is the day it decides to rain in the desert. It's the only
day of rain I've had here too. and the distances I was riding didn't
make it better (and the person whose bike I was borrowing is about a
foot shorter than I am so the bike was short too.) Now that I've done an
excellent job at describing the "miserably" part, here's the "awesome".
I was able to teach in Spanish. I'm still a little surprised when I
talk and the Latino people I talk to understand me. I mean my teachers
back at the MTC understood me, but they also know English so they know
what I'm trying to say. Some of the people we were talking to on
Thursday don't speak much, if any, English, so that was pretty awesome.
The other big thing was I got an added witness that day that God hears
and answers prayers. There were several times that day where I felt
like I couldn't go any further, and so I would pray for strength enough
to make it to where we were going; or sometimes my companions would get a
bit ahead of me, and I would pray they find someone to talk to so they
would stop and I could catch up. Every one of those prayers was
answered Immediately. Every single time I prayed for strength I felt the
soreness in my legs disappear. I was always able to catch up to my
companions. and we had several people on the street that they talked to
when I had asked for it. It was amazing to see that readily and immediately the blessings that come when you are trying to do the right
thing and just take the time to ask God for help.
Our investigator Brian is Thinking about baptism.
He is a very Logically minded individual and wants to make sure it's
the right thing for him to do at this time. All he's waiting for is a
response from God about if the Gospel is true and if so, when should his
baptism be. We'll have to see what happens there. Our other big
investigator, Latanya, is ready as can be for Baptism, but she needs to
start coming to church more often. She's only made it there once.
She's willing and ready in all other areas, but she seems to be sick on
Sunday's a lot. So we aren't sure about her baptismal date either. Oh
well, so goes the work. We have others that we are teaching, but it's
been pretty slow going with them at the moment. Everyone is busy with
Christmas coming up, but that's ok, we are going to work extra hard this
week to make sure we do everything we can.
That's about it for this week. Adios!
-Elder David Hill Jr.
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