Dearest family and amigos,
This week was.... AWESOME!!!! We have just been finding families to
teach like NOBODYS BUSINESS! And they are all just like really good
families. We are so excited.
So, funny story though, like half the people we bus contact who are
guys actually just want to date us. Even the old men. And so there was
this one old guy named Lynn, who we had seen and talked to several times
on the bus and he was like really interested, he went on to the website
and researched the church and he even watches music and the spoken
word. He is just this sweet old guy. He is 70 by the way. And he wanted
us to come teach him more, and so we were like "okay", only thing was he
lives slightly out of our area. But he didn't want the elders from that
area to come teach him because he hadn't met them. So what we did was
we set up an appointment and just brought the elders without telling him
so that he could meet them and be comfortable with them. But
ANYWAYS all four of us walk into his house and he turns on this like
weird music that sounded like it was supposed to be like seductive or
something haha. Obviously, I asked him to turn it off so that we could
have the spirit there haha. So then the lesson goes on and he keeps
bringing up how most old people think they can't do all the things young
people do, but he feels like he's just getting younger and younger and
he's ready to start dating again. And then he said "it's interesting how
when you are young, you look to the older people, but when you are old,
you look to the younger people". And me and Hermana Connelly were
basically sitting there trying to hold back guffaws of laughter the
entire lesson. Thank goodness we had the elders there. Not that he is
dangerous or anything, he really is a sweet old guy, but yea... we
definitely do not, "look to the old people" in that way haha. He is
actually interested in the gospel though. He was totally fine and
excited about the elders stopping by and teaching him now that he has
actually met them. But situations like this happen to us quite
frequently haha. In East LA people used to stop me on the street to tell
me I have pretty eyes just because they are blue, and they are so
unused to blue eyes haha. I even got proposed to once at a bus stop in
East LA hahahaha.
Oh, so that family, Jorge and Sonya and kids. They are just SO
AWESOME. I mean right now they still think they are super catholic. But
they all committed to read the restoration pamphlet and pray about it.
And they actually will. Because they are just the most sincere kind
people ever. And we see them like every day since they live right next
to them so we remind them like every day haha. It is so funny though
because Jorge basically bares his testimony of our church to every
person that is around him when we are there. Yesterday we were talking
to him out in the street with his cousin, so he started telling his
cousin how good people mormons are and how he loves what we do so much
and how his friend converted and changed his life haha. They are the
best. Pray for them though because they are having trouble understanding
the whole authority being restored thing.
The gospel blesses families. And it is the best. If there's one
thing that touches peoples hearts it is a sincere testimony of how the
gospel has blessed the life of my own family and how it can help theirs.
Things here in Chino are picking up! Tell Sister Smith, and
Rigtrup, and Cossette THANK YOU for the post cards. I think I am going
to write Cossette back but it may take me a whiiiiiiiile to get around
to it.
The GOSPEL IS TRUE!!!!! Love it, live it, SHARE IT!
Love,
Hermana Bardsley
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