Speaking of which, my
new companion is Sister Morco! She's originally from the Philippines but moved
here with her family when she was about 10 so she has lived here for just over
the majority of her life. She is awesome and it this crazy place it's good to
have someone you get along with well! She was studying nutrition before her
mission and is going to BYU next fall. Also she likes to eat
"adventurous" food! Today for lunch we had Pho! Also, although this
really isn't related, we named my GPS. Her name is Chrissy because she gets
confused easily. But, I feel like it's not entirely fair to judge her for not
knowing about the dirt roads or the roads that just... end for no explainable
reason. By the way, one of the major roads we travel on here is called Rainbow
Road. It's not very colorful though since it's pavement and dirt but of all the
roads we drive on, I'll do my best to look out for obstacles (like banana and
turtle shells and the like), I'd hate to fall off of it!
The majority of this
week has been spent getting to know the investigators and the members. We have
a lot of investigators but none that are really progressing, so we have a lot
of work and a good amount of sorting/ decision making to do in the next few
weeks about them.
We've done a lot of
service here as well. We worked in a Catholic food bank type place and helped
two people move already.
So let's see.. Interesting
things that happened this week. We talked to a guy who had signs displaying the
10 commandments all over his yard. He told us all about how true believers of
Christ worship on Saturday because calendars aren't culturally based, God
established a calendar while he was creating the earth, he also named the days
of the week. I really wanted to ask him what he thought about Easter (by the
way, if you don't know how/when Easter is determined look it up, it's crazy)
but decided not to. We also went to visit a member to drop something off and
heard someone in the back of the house yell "Don't open the door!!"
They did but... the other person wasn't too happy about it. We met someone who
reminds me of that military guy from twin peaks who had us hold hands and pray
with him, so that was different, although not too weird I guess.
We aren't supposed to
drive here two days a week so we rode bikes one day, which was alright. I know
that it seems very French and romantic to ride bikes in a skirt down a dirt
road but let me tell you, it is not. There is just not a practical way to do
it. But, one of the bikes got a flat tire so, I guess we'll just figure out
what to do with that. We also taught a lesson to a family that is part investigator,
part recent convert, part less active. Most of the recent converts in the ward
are now do not contacts.. Not quite sure how that works. Also, we have a lot of
families that are part active member part do not contact. Like 10 of
them!
Yesterday we went to a
Bible study with a born again Christian family. We didn't have any hand holding
this time but there was some swaying and lots of "Thank you Lord
Jesus" " Yes, Lord, hear my prayers!" Maybe it's just because
I'm not used to it, but that kind of stuff just makes me really uncomfortable.
The mom who invited us to the meeting is... interesting... but the kids and
their wives were all actually pretty normal/cool. If we can get them aside I
can actually see them making good investigators.
Let's see... today I
also went to the chiropractor. There is one in the ward and we’re going to see
if he could help us, our shoulders have been hurting recently. It was crazy
sounding but... I basically feel the exact same so... we'll see?
Well, that's about
everything that I can think of right now. I have a feeling though that there
will be a good deal of interesting things to tell you in the near future! I
hope that you all are doing well! Let me see, this week in personal study I was
trying to study power and authority but what I ended up learning instead is
that from the time of Adam to the time of Noah's arc was almost 5,000 years!
Also, the mountain where Moses saw the burning bush and the mountain where he received
the 10 commandment are the same place! So that's crazy! Oh, I decided to read
the entire standard works from cover to cover. So far I'm in Genesis so I've
got a long way to go but it'll be good! By the way, have any of you read the
intro to the King James Bible? It's a little strange.
Well, talk to you all
soon! Value your education!
Love,
April
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