Hey Everyone!
Its been a fun few weeks here in the mission field! This last week was pretty good, we had a new missionary training on Thursday. We got some awesome instruction from President and Sister Woods, and from the Assistants to the President. We saw something really cool happen with 2 of our investigators, named Nelson and Joanna. They live together and have 2 kids, but arent married (something that weve seen a couple times, and I hear is a very common situation around here) and didnt really want to get married. We have been teaching him relatively often, but she works alot, so we dont see her much. They havent really been progressing either. But the Senior missionary in our area, Elder Martineu has been working with them too, and he called us the other day and said "hey they want to get married, go over and talk to them". So we rode over there, talked for a bit, read the Family Proclomation with them, and they were both ready to get married. So we called Elder Martineu, he said hed be there in 20 mins to take them to the place to get their marriage liscence, and they were both like, "Ok lets go". So they went and got the liscence, and are getting married tomorrow! Its way cool.
Eujenio (pronounced ay-oo-hen-ee-oh) is also doing very well, and progressing. He takes everything in with excitement, asks really good questions, and is very excited to get baptized. Were really excited to be working with him. Yesterday we were talking about the recieving the priesthood and he asked if he had to have it to be able to go out with us. We of course said he could come right after he got baptized, but thats so awesome that hes that excited about it!
I am getting along well with Elder De Los Santos. We pretty much speak all spanish, rarely will we speak english. We've only eatin with members two or three times. This may come as a shock to you, but missionaries aren't supposed to eat with members unless theres an investigator there as well, or it is approved by the Mission President to have a help for the work. President brought that up in the missionary training, hes like "how does eating at a members house help you? There were a few answers like "well... we dont have to make the food?" and the answer was there really wasnt. Missionaries are capable of making their own food, if you want to help them in that department bring them food, but otherwise all that theyre doing is taking time away from the work. I've realized now that we've definitely had some missionaries that are... "second rate" in our ward. Weve had some good ones, but there really should be alot more going on in Sammamish.
But, my 3rd night or so before I was informed about that, a recent convert asked us to help her prepare a lesson she was teaching, and then it somehow turned into dinner with their family. Theyre awesome, the Martinez family, we have FHE at their house with a bunch of families and investigators every week. Guess what dinner was that night: Lentil Soup. For anyone who doesnt know, Ive despised lentil soup since before I can remember, and have tried to eat it several times since, but everytime just cannot eat it because of the texture. So, seeing the soup worried me. There was a side of cheese enchiladas, so I started out with the take a bite of the soup, bite of the enchilada approach, then after a few, I realized I actually kind of liked the soup! I dont know how it was done, but I guess lots of cilantro and some other stuff I couldnt discern just made it good. Who knew?
We are on bike pretty much always. A few of our investigators live close, so well walk, but our areas right on the brink of being big enough for a car, so some of our rides are long. Its definitely different than the northwest, the humidity is really starting to kick in. I guess when I got here it was just in the middle of a cold front. I dont have many one-liners this week, ill try to remember to write more stuff down this week, but one thing that happens alot is people yelling stuff at as in our neighborhood. I wont try to dress it up, we live in a pretty ghetto neighborhood. Elder De Los Santos calls it a "Bien feo lugar". So theres lots of sketchy people that yell stuff.
This one guy in our apartment was yelling at us as we were walking across the little courtyard to the mail who just yelled a bunch of stuff like "Jesus is God in the flesh! Jesus is the son of God and he came to save us all!!" We just waved.
Theres lots of little black kids who yell stuff about our bikes as we ride by like "whered you get those lights?" "Hey thats my bike!"
This one little kid stopped us and asked if he could have one of those "God cards" we had. I gave him a pass-along card with jesus on the front and explained that Jesus is the Son of God, and hes our brother because were all children of God, and hes like "oh cool I didnt know that."
Well, thats all for this week, well see yall later!
-Elder Cardon
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