Ya everything’s good here in Port (Lavaca) and we are focusing
on a couple people right now. One is
Dominique Campos. The Campos family is
the best! The mom, Christi, calls us her
boys (as in sons, not the ghetto way) and she wants us to call her Tia which is
aunt in Spanish. So the dad has been a member
forever and the mom and other daughters got baptized a year ago. But Dominique
is still strong in her Catholic church.
And she hasn’t liked missionaries in the past. But when I got here we just tried to be her
friend and help her out. Like we just
helped her on a school project and we went to one of her bible camp skits at
her church. And now she is super cool to us.
We gave her the blueprint talk and she really opened up and felt the
spirit. But she will never admit it in front
of anyone. She only opens up if we text
her about something otherwise she is just her normal sassy self. So hopefully we can slowly work with that.
Also, we are teaching a girl named Darlene Flores. She is a single mom who is unemployed and
living with a friend who is a member at our church. Darlene has been to church every week for
about two months now. It is just super
hard to see her outside that, so we have only taught her a couple lessons. She has a baptismal date for Aug 17 and all
she needs to do is to stop drinking coffee and she will be solid. And its just because she has been to church so
many times that she has a testimony of its truth even though she hasn’t really
been taught much.
This week we taught a Santa Muerte worshipper. It was pretty crazy. I used to see them a lot in my last area but,
I actually taught one here. They are
super crazy. They believe in God but
this lady, Santa Muerte, is the one who controls life. She is the one who has the power to let you
live or take you in any day. So all of
her followers have a statue of her in her house and they pray to her and give
her sacrifices. They give her whatever
she tells them. Sometimes its fruit or
food, sometimes money or cigarettes. And
all of her believers have super strong feelings because they have all talked to
her and made deals with her. I’m pretty
sure that they are just making deals with the devil though. And of all the missionaries I’ve talked to, I’ve
only heard of one have some success with a Santa Muerte person, because they
believe that if they stop doing what she says, she will come and kill them, and
they all have seen signs like when they forget to pray one day and they get
super sick. So they pretty much believe
that once they get in with her, you can never get out. Pretty nutty stuff.
But those are the main people we are working with. Other than that we see some other people, but
they don’t really progress or change. But
we do have a lot of possibilities so that’s super good. Anyways, hope you have a good week
Elder Lund
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