So, as you guessed mom, I don't really care about the superbowl, at
all. However, it has been a nice technique to get into houses in the
last 24 hours. I even got some free carne asada out of being from
Seattle. So, I'm not complaining. People think that I'm crazy though
that I'm from Seattle and I didn't watch the superbowl. It has been
really weird these past few days though to see a whole bunch of people
wearing Seahawks and Seattle stuff.
It also rained last night. Which I attribute to the Seahawks
winning the superbowl. Although more likely it was because all of the
members in Southern California had been asked to fast for rain yesterday
because this area is in a super drought. And it isn't even summer yet.
Apparently I hear in some areas they are just going to cut off
water for periods. But yea, it rained. And it was pretty cool because it
was like half hour after we finished our fast that all these clouds
just randomly rolled in and it started raining. Which probably also
roughly coincided with right around when the Seahawks won the superbowl.
Either way it increases my faith in something good, Seattle, or the
gospel, the two best things the world has to offer. I have yet to learn
humility on my mission. I still think I am from the best place on earth,
and by extension was born with a large portion of awesomeness.
So Juan, our borracho, is doing.... well... pretty similar haha.
But since you asked, Daddy-oh, I'll give an update. He is just never
even mentally there enough that he can even absorb a message. But we
still go a couple times a week largely because the entire neighborhood
loves us for visiting him. But it is pretty funny, we gave him a book of
mormon and he saw our book of mormons and that they were like highlighted
and marked and stuff. And so the next time we came back he had colored
his book of mormon. But actually, like, colored it. Like every other
line was a random color, and he had colored whole pages like that. He
brought his Book of Mormon out with a box of crayons. It was hilarious.
We nearly died trying to contain our laughter. But hey, that's progress
at least! At least he is opening the Book of Mormon! Even if it is just
to color it! I think he reads what he colors too. I think that's kind of
how he keeps track of what he reads. He colors a section and then reads
it haha. Poor guy. He just is so far gone it is like dealing with a 5
year old.
I don't know if I told you guys about this either when skyping or
in a previous email, but they created this rule in the mission in
December, I believe, that as a companionship we have to have at least 10
quality contacts a day (which means you have to testify and invite in
the contact), and the first one has to be within the first ten minutes
of leaving our apartment. Well, the second part of that one is super
inspired, because it means that we end up teaching a lot of our
neighbors. Which is just, super convenient. We can just look to see if
their cars are home to know if we can go over. It is great. But yea we
are teaching this family that just lives right downstairs from us right
now and they are super cool. There are just some homes where the spirit
can come super strong. I think it's based on their own dedication.
Normally when we come into a home we have to tell the family to turn off
the tv, and then we go and get all the kids out of their rooms to
listen. So with this family we had set up an appointment when we met him
a couple days before, and normally like with street contacts they don't
even remember that they had set up an appointment. And so that's what
we were expecting, but then we got there and as soon as we walked in
they turned off the tv and the dad went and got all the kids and he had
told them all before hand that we were coming and they all sat down at
the table and the spirit was just SOOOO strong. In the ending prayer
when he asked if these things were true and then we did the new teaching
method thing where we just sat there for a minute or so in silence the
spirit was like SUFFOCATING. In a good way of course. It was more like
everyones hearts were about to explode. It's just soo true that as much
effort as you put into something you get out of it and that's how it is
with the gospel. This family had made the effort to be prepared to hear
God's word and because of that the spirit could testify like crazy.
Well, Aurora is still doing well. She is still reading the Book of
Mormon and going to church. Which is awesome. She will almost certainly
get baptized on March 2 which is her baptismal date.
That's all, well, not really, but I am bored of typing. cheers my friends.
Hermana Bardsley
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