HELLO!!
I am sorry! I forgot to tell you last week that
I wouldn't be able to email until today! Yes, I got the Halloween package and it was great! Tell Leah
thanks! I got the next package Friday or Saturday, I
am SOOO glad to have all of those things, Thank you, Thank you!
I got in another crash, this time, Totally
not my fault. The car came whipping into the cross walk not looking, I slammed
the breaks but it was rainy and slid funny and my bike went tumbling and I was
some how on my knee... (I hope he is ok, he didn't give any more information. I figure, no new is good news, right?) Any way we were able to tune the tire, but my seats
a little broken now, so I was wondering if you could check the CTR stuff and see
if that was covered? Also read the warranty info on theft I think I might
need to get another ubolt lock or have to take my front tire off every time in
order for it to be safe by their standards. There is no rush at all, the seat
works. I might even just pick up a super comfy one at Walmart next time we go
to FLL.
This week Elder L*** and I have really focused on working with only the elect. that means that we had to do a lot more harvesting and a little less teaching. We realized that we had been wasting the Lord's time trying to get people we wanted to baptize ready instead of letting the Lord guide us to those he had already prepared. It was a definite his will over mine kind of decision. We had to drop a lot of investigators and focus on just a few. It has been rewarding, we now have a greater excitement for the appointments that we have, a faster pace and a "more willing to be guided" attitude. It reminds me of what I read in Alma this week. He had gone into Aminihah and is treated terrible and kicked out. As he is leaving, he's really down trodden and that's where we were this week. We had gotten A LOT of people telling us "no" to blessings and we weren't really getting that many for the amount of time that we spent out Harvesting. It wasn't as drastic as Alma's experience, but like it in that we didn't know what to do. We felt that we were doing what was right, but it wasn't doing any good. Then like Alma we got a prompting to go back to the area, but on a different side, we were able to give more blessings in an hour than we were normally able to give in 3 days! Its was miraculous! And it really solidified that we need to pay attention to the spirit and where the Lord wants us to go.
We have met and sown a TON
of seeds this week, unfortunately none of them were ready to be taught. They need just
a little more time. But it was definitely exciting to confirm Dioscorides this
week! He is already preparing family names to take to the temple to do baptisms
in Orlando in a couple of weeks! He is going to be a SOLID member! We got
transfer info this week, in fact yesterday. All of the Elders in my apartment
except Elder W****** are staying which means tomorrow there will be another
missionary living with us, which is going to be a little weird because Elder
W******is one of the 6 missionaries that I know really well in this mission!
But it will be exciting to meet another!
I thought I would teach you a little Cuban/Spanish... see in Spanish you add -ita or -ito to the end of a word and it means little or
small. In Mexico I learned that horita (hora -ita) meant "right now". Like I
will do it in this short minute, kind of like when we say give me a moment, but
every time a Cuban ( or a Puerto Rican) says it, we NEVER get an answer or it
never gets done! Because to them it means in a short bit like a little while
later! BAH! and that's not the only little mix up there is. SOOO many things that
mean different things to different countries! It's ridiculous! Any way that was
my little vent on the language. I feel like I have come a long way, it still
takes me a long time to say what I want to say, but I understand most of what
is said and I can read in the language pretty good. Not quite at Grandpa's
level yet! (He was told that he would have to learn several different countries types of Spanish in the Ft. Lauderdale Mission.)
The other step I took this week was that I decided I am of Latin decent. Dad you are Mexican, and Mom you are a Venezuelan. Every one
asks if I am Latin for some reason so I decided not to fight it. When they ask
where I'm from I say Estados Unidos and then the say "no tu padres?" and I say "no se",they say some country I say probablamente and boom we move on if I try
to explain it takes FOREVER. So, I thought I would let ya know where you are
from! (A missionary not telling the truth? SHAME! Not that I would not be proud of being Venezuelan, Igrid!).
YOU GUYS ARE GREAT, Elder L*** says "thanks for lunch"! We are still playing with those sticky spiders! It's amazing how well they stick!
Stay strong, push on
ELDER PARK!!
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