Thank you so much for your prayers and support this week; it was such a good week so thank you! It's so weird to think that I have been out on my mission for 3 months now, it doesn't feel like that long but at the same time I have a lot left to go. But that's okay cause serving is awesome!
Okay so this week was a really sick week with some very different experiences. We have finally been able to get some new investigators!! One of them was this girl that was in our area book that we called and she was super down to meet us. Turns out she works in a bar that she started and so when we met with her all of her friends were there that we had actually met before. There was like 8 of these 20ish year olds and we had tried to talk to them but they had previously tried to cuss out out in English. Anyway so we walk up and one of them shakes my hand and gives me a "very firm" handshake. As if he's like king of this bar or something. So I just look at him in the eyes and crush his hand right back and then walked inside. Kinda like don't mess with me man, cause I am called of God as a missionary, and also as a member of the church we shake hands a lot so back off (so obviously my hand was stronger hahaha). We met with the girl and she was super open to hearing more about the gospel, it was just hard to teach her because she was blasting Eminem (which was sooo hard not to try to jam out too lolol). But she accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and told us that she will read it so I have high hopes for her! And I hope that we can teach her friends too, or at least get them to start liking us! And then I talked to one of her other friends to try to build a friendship and he is like a bro to me now. Cause when we walked out of the bar, he gave me the "slight bro nod" as I walked out so we will see!
We also are starting to teach this man that is very Buddhist that we met on the street. He invited us into his house and we explained who we were and he told us to come back and eat with him! It's very sad though because obviously he doesn't have a lot of food or a whole lot of anything. He is very kind, though, and I hope that good things happen with him! I also think that he was slightly drunk during our visit but he wants us to come back and is super open, so that's another person that we can start teaching!
Something else that was really cool this week is a few weeks back we were doing some finding and I walked past this family that I felt like I should talk to. Then began the constant battle in my mind cause it’s at those moments that I start getting scared. So I ended up turning around and went back but they had left, so I was super sad that I had missed that opportunity. But then we started talking to this fresh half Indian/Egyptian guy and he came to English course and has become really good friends with us. He refers to us as his brothers. Well, we hadn't seen him in a few weeks and we saw him a few days ago across the street. I shouted at him and was like, "my friend!!" And he got so excited and came over and said he wanted to take us to buy a drink. We explained what we believed but he was still persistent so he bought us some pear juice, and introduced us to some REALLY Muslim friends of his and we sat in there and talked to him and explained about missionaries. It was a really good opportunity and so hopefully we can start bringing in the gospel with him. I believe I was supposed to go back to talk to that man!
Other things that I think y'all will think are kinda interesting that happened this week-
There is this woman that's really interested in meeting with us this week but I am 99 percent sure she is a cougar (like legit no joke she flirts with us and she's probably 35. It's disgusting) so I will let you know how that goes!
Also, we got another pepperocini from a man that we are teaching. Anyway, this one he told us you have to wear gloves when you cut it because it's so hot. Completely ignoring this counsel "cause I am a big strong man" I cut it up with my bare hands. Let's just say that putting in my contacts for the next 3 days was absolutely horrible cause the juices wouldn't come off of my hand... it was horrible.
We met this really nice woman that we gave a Romanian Book of Mormon to and she wants to meet with us again! So hopefully we can start teaching her! We also started teaching this man that is extremely intelligent that came to church yesterday. He is curious where is grandfather is because he passed away. The church is so true cause I was like, well, my friend, we have the perfect answer for you.
Italians think that eggs can kill you. We had a huge argument a few weeks ago in English course about how we all eat three eggs a day and they were super concerned for us that we were going to die. I am being totally serious; it was the funniest thing ever haha.
Well I love you all!! God does answer prayers and he loves us. I can see that from this week with all the new potential people that we have to teach. There is even more but this email is already massive. Thanks so much for everything! There was zone conference this week and we talked a lot about planning, and executing that plan, and then teaching with the spirit. So my spiritual thought for this week is just about how important the spirit is. Cause when we teach it's not us that's going to change the person cause if we do that then they are not converted. It's the spirit and the feelings that they have that they know this is the true church on the earth today. That's what our goal is and so I know I have a lot to learn with teaching with the spirit but I am really grateful for what I have learned with that!
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