Bueno
Bueno, what’s been going on everyone? I got some sweet e-mails this week, it was fun reading some of them…some of them even came from a different country (Taiwan!). Parents and Julie in Taiwan…that’s crazy! Well, hope they are having a great time and that they are safe. Let’s see..how was my week?? It went pretty good. Tuesday was pretty crazy. We helped out one of our members in his kitchen in the morning. He has been redoing his kitchen for a while and we have gone over weekly to take out walls and drywall and other miscellanious task. This week, we were painting. It was pretty interesting what happened. He pulled out the paint contanair and starting stirring, got all of the other tools and told us to go for it. So, we started painting the walls, especifically I was working on the window. The kitchen isn’t that big and the paint was very strong. Well, we were painting for a good 10 minutes, and I started feeling a little dizzy. Luckily, Elder Christensen realized it when he felt the same, but we didn’t even think about what we needed to do before we started….OPEN A WINDOW!! So, he went over there and opened the window and our member was like, “oh good idea, we need to get some air in here”. There was already a fan going in the room but it was blowing at us…so the fumes were just staying where we were. After that, we took a little break of 5 minutes, and I was very chipper and would laugh at anything. I had recieved a “high” from the paint fumes. After our break, we went back in to finish the job and it even got worse. Well, it was very fun while it lasted, I felt like I was in 7th heavan for a while, I was happy, felt like I didn’t have a care in the world!! But, I would say, 2 hours after is when my “hangover” set in. I seriously felt like I had been hit by a ton of bricks and I had no energy at all and a pretty bad headache. Miracously, we still went out to work but it wasn’t the most effective tracking. Recently, we have been searching for Hispanics through the really bad ghetto. There are very suspicious looking black people, and mixed in with them are some hispanics. Most of them think we are “Da Palice”. Wilson has some bad ghetto, but alot of the people are nice, just the younger ones who walk around all day with all of their gangster cloths are the ones we stay away from…oh Wilson…
Our investigators are doing alright. Humberto and Anamaria just need to get married, and Humberto would get baptized right away. The only thing with him is that he can’t read also. So, we are trying to teach him to read, but he won’t practice that much…he says it’s really hard. Because he can’t read, he’s not able to really gain a testimony. He already knows that it is true, but he justs needs to be able to learn on his own. Also, I don’t know if I told you all about Jose and Mayra Lopez before, but Jose is a cool dude we found a few weeks ago that actually got baptized in Mexico when he was really young but stopped going after a few months. He now goes to the catholic church, but he wants to know more about ours. Also, his wife Marya, is the sister of Carolina, who recently got baptized. She too is catholic and is scared to changed. But we are teaching them in this time. Also, we have started teaching a woman named Rosalva, from El Salvador. Her thing right now is that she thinks all churches are good, and she has already been baptized. We watched “the Restoration” with her this last Saturday, but her TV kept on doing weird things. For example, it kept turning on and off and the volumn keep going up and down without us touching it..she thought it was the electrical outlet, but told us it hadn’t done in that much before. We got to start working pretty good for a while…until the first vision came around…the most important part!! The volumn completely dropped down to 0. So, we had to improvise a little bit.
This week, I also had my first interview with President Wallis…he’s pretty chill. Him and his wife are so funny. It’s going to be fun with him. The weather has been hot and it’s going to be even hotter this next week…high’s in the high 90’s, with the heat index going over 105…it’s going to be hot!! Things are going well, we’re trying to work hard in spite of the weather, it should only be bad for about another month and a half. Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their own week, especially those in Taiwan!!
Con Amor,
Elder Hardy