HOLY SMOKES.
Well this week I completed six months here in the mission. Time seriously flies by.
This week was a pretty good one I would have to say. We worked super hard and found the people we needed
to find I honestly feel.
Well let's start off with my new best friend Frank!!! Frank was contact literally 20 minutes after writing everybody
last Monday. So in front of his house is like a park where everyone just throws all their trash, and for some
reason he was burning all this grass there and all the trash. It was just black where he was cause he just set it
all on fire. So I just was like this is cool--we're gonna go contact him. So we did. Come to find out he speaks
more English than Spanish. He lived in Iowa for all his life, but for some reason he moved here. He's kinda a
thug, and talks like one--its kinda funny. So we contacted him and asked if we could pass on Wednesday, and
he said 'yes'. So we passed and taught him, and wow it was an awesome lesson. So we taught him the
Restoration. He really liked it, but he can't understand when he reads in Spanish, so we got a Book of Mormon
and a Bible for him in English. So the next time we stopped by to have a lesson with him, we talked about the
Book of Mormon and at the end of the lesson I felt super prompted to invite him to be baptized. I know it was
only the second lesson with him, but actually in predicad mi evangelio dice you should invite the first lesson. So
we teach him half in English and half in Spanish. I invited him in English. Oh my goodness you guys--the Spirit
was so strong--seriously. It was insanely hard to do. For some reason when I talk in English about the Gospel I
always choke up and I don't know why--so I just talk in Spanish. But I asked in English, and he said 'YES'!! So
we set a date for the 17 de abril. After the lesson I asked my companion if he understood what I said, and he
said no, but he definitely felt something insanely strong when I asked him. No matter the language the Spirit is
the same. We show up to church and he and his dad were there like 35 mintues before the meeting started! haha
So awesome. And in the Sunday School and Priesthood they participated a ton. So that is Frank.
We weren't able to have the baptism on Saturday due to the font, but its all good were going to have it this
Wednesday.
I will end with this story. So we ate with this hermana yesterday and her house was actually pretty nice. So we
were eating rice, beans, cosala, and then KFC!!!! Goteem chicken wings. So greasy. So she has a Grandma that
she takes care of and she has 100 years and she came out to eat as well. And she is so skinny. And she sat at the
table and ohhhhhh baby. She started eating the rice and the beans and finished all that stuff kinda--more like two
bites and got her eye on the chicken wing and the KFC. Let me tell you--when she got a hand on that chicken
bone she went to work. She was gnawing on that chicken leg like no other. I've never seen a 100 year old
woman eat like this before. She seriously left the bone dry and literally had nothing on it. So she told her
granddaughter she was done eating and she wanted to go sleep, and so she moved her to her bed. We go to
leave, and where the grandma was sitting, on the floor was all of her food. Not sure how much made it into her
mouth. haha It was a little sad but more funny haha.
Well I haven't talked about my Spanish in a while, but honestly its doing pretty good. I understand everything
everyone says. My English is starting to fade away. Some words I have no idea how to say in Spanish, but then
I try to think in English how to say it and I can't because I can't remember. My companion says my accent is still
gringo, but its better than before, and I don't sound totally gringo--so that's cool. I'm send a video of me talking
and you can see a little bit of my accent.
That's all I got for this week you guys.
Elder Hall
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