Well, this week was about like any other, we had a
fun exchange, and some cool lessons with some of our investigators. This
week was a little better than the last few have been. For whatever reason, it
seems the winds of opposition have been blowing strong here in Baton Rouge, but
this weekend we saw some rays of hope with two of the families we are working
with. One was with Marvin and Ana, they need to get married, and he wants
to. She doesn't seem like she really wants to, but tonight we're
going to have a lesson with them about that topic, so hopefully we'll get them
to realize the importance. We had a lesson with just him the other night, and
he said that she told him she wants to get baptized. Sweet! We were a little
worried about them, but I think they are starting to recognize that we have
something they need. So we know they have the desires, and the other night when
we came by he was super excited to see us, so that's a good sign.
Our other one is with Yadira and Seraphin. We
hadn't seen taught them in a while, and the last couple of times that we have
been by they have seemed indifferent about us being there. But, we
went over, they let us in, and they told us before we even mentioned
it, that they want to come to church! That is of course music to our ears, and
we were really excited to have them with us. We read a chapter in the Book of
Mormon with them, and we left them with a movie to watch. They said they
had a DVD player, but not the remote to change the language. One of my
previous companions carried around a universal remote for this very purpose,
and gave it to me when he left, and I've carried it with me for that same
purpose. But, it didn't have batteries. They were really
disappointed, because they wanted to watch the movie, so we said, alright,
whats got batteries in here we can steal from? So we cannibalized a
little talking doll, stole the batteries, and changed the language.
Success! Then we said we'd call them on Sunday for church so they could
come to church with us.
Sunday mornings as a missionary are some
of the most stressful times ever. You call about a hundred people to come to
church (ok not that many) and about two of them answer. So if they don't answer
you have to go knock on their door. And, per Elder Clarks
instruction, if they don't answer the door, you yell
"FIRE!" and hopefully they come out. Well, we called them,
and they didn't answer, so we were ready to head to their house, but then he
called back and said "Sorry guys, Satan tempted me, and I've got some
other stuff to do." Really, man? You're going to give in that easy?!? So,
he recognized it was from Satan, at least that's the first step. We'll review
the next one with them soon. I need a good "Don't listen to Satan"
Scripture. Any ideas? Theres about a thousand. Whats everyones favorite?
On the exchange, I got to visit Norths
investigator, Roberto, the one who used to be a musician in Brazil. We went and
helped him translate at a doctors office about his finger, which he was worried
might have arthritis or some other infection, but it turned out all was good!
We had dinner and a lesson at his house, and played some music afterwards. The
lesson went really well, we taught the plan of salvation, and he had lots of
questions about it. He said that in the church classes and
when we were teaching, that whenever I share a comment or teach something,
he always listens, because he can tell I understand the gospel well
and explain it in a way he can understand. Well thats nice. It was super
fun to play music with him. He is really an amazing musician. I got to hear the
sound system he bought in action, and boy does it sound good. Oh so good. I
helped him make it sound even better by playing with the EQ. He has a little
drum machine and effects thing, so when he plays it sounds really good. We
were talking about music and recording and stuff and he said that down in
Brazil you can make a pretty good living with music recording and sound
production. He said that after my mission and when he goes back to Brazil,
he'll pay for me to come down and do sound for him on some of his shows. And he
was totally serious. Oh man. That would be so fun. Better learn Portugese next.
Well, hope thats a good update, hope to hear
from all y'all soon!
Love,
Cam
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