Well to start off the week, it was a little rough. My companion and I got a little sick--but more my comp. We ate at the familia Dominguez home at Wednesday. We had snails and chicken feet with a little dab of habanero and celentro? idk how to spell it. But it was fowl. Nastiest thing I've eaten. I ate it with a tortilla chip and the daughter looks at me and she's like 'Elder, no necisita comer esta'. haha I was like 'No yo puedo'. haha And then I took another bite and she said 'Really, you don't have to eat it if you don't want'. And I was like, 'Okay, muchas gracias' and she gave me something else. You could see dirt on the chicken's feet. And then like they break them so it was like eating bones. And it smelled so terrible. Then the snails just---ugghhhh I can't think about it--it smelled so bad. So I had a little tareesh the next day but my comp ate a lot of it and he had a fever and had tareesh for like 2 days. So we stayed home Wednesday and I watched April General Conference, and some movies.
I learned some good stuff let me tell ya. I have some killer notes but my favorite talk was Jeffrey R Holland's. And he talked about hope. And here's what I learned:
We can always improve and we always get credit for trying, even if we don't succeed.
So true--perfect example here in oxk this week. We lost three of our best investigators this week. One being Aida y jordy. She had a date and everything and then told us this week she didn't wanna go. Another one was Jesus and his parents didn't want us coming and teaching him anymore. And another one I'll tell you about later
He also said: 'Everyone falls, and when you fall, call upon Him and He will pick you up. And may I add--always to the end of that.
This guy has power when he speaks. Its so amazing to listen to him and all the apostle and prophets.
Keep: loving, trying, trusting, believing, growing. Heaven is cheering you on, today, tomorrow and forever.
Yesterday my legs started to cramp and I literally felt I couldn't go anymore. Seriously, my knees and my shins just felt horrible and cramping. I kept having to stop and take a minute break but something, not sure what it was kept pushing me and kept telling me puede, puede caminar, puede. and this is what got me through this week.
Just when you think you can't go any longer you just keep moving one foot in front of the other.
Okay--so it was Thursday and had nothing to do 'cause nobody was home. So we prayed to be guided to someone in that time. And I promise you guys right now (and I promise with everything I have) we didn't know where we were. So we just started walking. And we came to a fork in the road. We could have gone straight or go left. And I just paused and I just said a little prayer and something said 'left'. So I said 'left' to my comp. So we went left. It was just a dirt and rock road. It was pretty steep and no street signs, nothing, just jungle. And we see these little kids running and laughing and pointing and saying hermanos hermanos. And so we followed them and it was legit just walking in this dirt road and it was sick--like something you would see in the movies. So we get to their house and we say 'can we talk to you mom or dad'. And they say 'yes'. The grandma comes out and I was like 'I recognize her. I've seen her somewhere'. Well she's a member and then one of the kids is Yaretzi! She's 8 years old and wants to be baptized. So we talk to her and then we went back the next day to talk to her mom about her being baptized. Well her mom thinks she's too young to be baptized 'cause she doesn't understand. Her mom is catholic. Well we just left it at that because its her mom and she gets to decide. We went to leave and seriously this girl stood on the front cement area and just watched us leave by herself. It was honestly one of the saddest things I've seen while here. You cold see it in her eyes. She wants it so bad and knows its true. She won't go to church with her mom but she goes every Sunday with her grandma which is awesome. Some day she will be baptized. God has a specific plan for her.
Well since its new years and holidays and everything, there's borrachos everywhere. Seriously every corner has a borracho. And some of them talk to us. I love talking to them--its so funny. One stopped us the other day and he said 'Heal me hermanos. Heal my head'. He put his head down like for us to give him a blessing and my comp was like 'No sorry. We can't. Its not an appropriate place and he gave us his direcion, and it wasn't even a direcion in oxkutzcab. haha
Oh Penelope--Hermana Chi is making you a sweater. She said she's gonna give it to me when I leave oxk. And then as well hermana villareal is making mom a tortilla servilleta. And one of the sisters gets a purse from hermana Chi also. They are all hand knit so its pretty cool.
Well to be honest this week was a testing week--didn't really have many appts and lost quite a bit of our investigators and people we thought were doing really well. But honestly I realized that Heavenly Father has a time and place for everyone. And this week just wasn't their time. But you have to go through this time to get to the time when they are ready, and who knows when that's going to be?
Well I don't know if I told everyone what happened last week. I had a dream last Wednesday night that I got kidnapped in a sonnette. And then on Monday while talking to my family I heard that Penelope wasn't able to sleep that same exact night (or couldn't fall asleep that night cause I was 'lost in Mexico and she needed to come find me'). I really don't think that she had this dream or a similar dream to mine for no reason. Elder Rasband gave a talk last General Conference ('Divine Purpose') and it talks about there's no such thing as a coincidence. I really believe in this. It happened for a reason. and something in my body and something else is telling me that I can't go back to that sonnette. Seriously, maybe there isn't anything in that sonnette. But heavens knows I'm not gonna go back. My comp asked me a few times if we can go to our contact up by the sonnette, and I just said sorry, no we can't.
Well our refrigerator is having some problems. It started like this past week. It makes this really weird noises. So it woke me up this one night and I think the fuse is broken but it still works. The place where you plug it is is just burning but it still works so we good.
Well all in all this week was pretty good. This next week is going to be awesome--I know it. We're gonna teach a lot of people this week.
K--talk to you guys later.
I'll send my pics right after this.
Elder Hall
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