Hola Everyone!
So I've survived my first week out of
the offices. This week has been pretty great. I forgot how much fun it is
going to a new area. There is the typical chaos that comes with trying
to quickly learn your area, the members, and learning to work with your
companion (Elder Rodriguez is awesome by the way), but I forgot how much
fun it is to mess with the members with the truth. To clarify, there are
some questions that always come up the first time we meet members:
where are you from? how much time do you have in the mission? How old
are you? With this last one I ask how old they think I am? If they don't
know I've got 19 months in the mission, they guess 19-20. If they do,
they guess 21-22; to which the response is "higher". Their eyes go wide
at 23, and they don't believe anything higher than 25. Once we assure
them that I'm 27, their jaws drop. My companion (who just turned 19 in
January) loves it. It's fun.
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| Elder Rodriguez |
On a more spiritual note, we found a great investigator this last
week. His name is Edgar. We were looking for members who haven't been to
church in a long while and knocked on his door. After he told us that
the people we were looking for don't live there anymore, we started
talking to him about God and his beliefs. He told us that he was
searching for the truth, but it's just so hard with all the different
religions out there. He was kind of partial to one religion because the
pastor had been nice to him and invited him, but they kinda had a
falling out over some things. After reviewing some of our beliefs we set
up an appointment to come back on Saturday when he had more time (we
talked in his door for half an hour!) When we came back on Saturday he
was waiting for us outside his door and was excited for us to come in
and talk to him. The lesson from there went great! He asks lots of
questions which I love because it keeps me from falling into a pattern
when I teach, And he likes to read, so we'll see how much of the Book of
Mormon he reads by our next lesson. (He read the entire pamphlet on the
Restoration including the questions in the back between Thursday and Saturday.)
That's the excitement here. For those wondering: Yes,
I'm enjoying myself; No, I don't miss being in the offices (though I do
miss having a computer every day) The stress level is so much lower in
the field that it wouldn't be worth it to me to go back to the offices,
even for the computer.
Oh, and it Hailed last Thursday.
Hasta Luego!
-Elder D Hill
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