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| Our little crew of Christian soldiers! |
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| On the ferry |
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| The big City! |
This morning we had transfer calls and I found out I'll
finish my mission here... sweet!
So last P-day we decided to explore the secret
parts of our area and an investigator told us that on another island there is
an old military base. So we drove to the
very end of the island and parked our car and got on the ferry. But these ferries are way different than the
ones at balboa, these ones can hold like 60 cars and they have an upper deck
where people can stand around the whole boat and look out. Plus these ones are free! So we got on the ferry and turns out its like
a 30 minute ride, so we just took some pictures, watched the other boats, and
fed the seagulls off the back. And we
thought the base would be super close so we didn't bring the car. But turns out that when we got to the other
side, where we thought the base was, it was way far away... :( So instead we just walked around the jetties
for a bit and caught crabs and then came back. It was pretty fun, but next time we will have
to take the car so we can explore more!
But this week, at church and other activities,
attendance has doubled!... kinda. At
FHE, we had like 25 people, so after the lesson we had huge games of basketball
and soccer. And Hispanics playing
basketball... it’s pretty intense. All rules and formalities go right out the
window and people just end up tackling each other and just launching the ball
towards the hoop. It was super fun. Same with soccer and they are all good at
soccer.
Then on Wednesday, I think I had the hottest
night of my life... We got home and found out that our power had been out all
day. So we lost a bunch of our food and our
apartment was 84 degrees. It was already
late enough that we couldn't leave and go stay with the other Elders here. So we tried to go to sleep but it was super
hard. Finally I got up at 12 and it was
87, so I went and took a 30 minute cold shower. But because of the humidity and heat, right
after getting out of the shower and getting clothes on, you already start to
sweat. But luckily I fell asleep for the
rest of the night. And then the
next morning, we did everything at the other Elder's apartment, and by the time
we got home from proselyting our power and AC was back on. Miracle! It made me love AC soooo much!
Also, I got to go to the departing temple
trip. Because I leave early next
transfer and won't be able to go to mine, I went to this one. I love that in this mission that we are able
to have trainings in the temple from the Mission President and Temple President
and their wives! Supposedly in most
places, these trainings don't happen. We
are super lucky here! But it was cool to
be with the missionaries that I have known my whole mission. We had the temple session, then the training
in the temple, and then we all went out to lunch at some pizza place! I'll send a picture of my little crew of Christian
soldiers.
And as far as the people we teach, we saw some
cool progress this week. Lately we have
been spending a lot of time with Adriana Luevano to help her improve her
reading ability. Just teaching them
wasn't doing much. So when we go by, we
sit down with Adriana and read a Dr. Seuss story with her. It’s been super fun and she always has us do
it in crazy voices. And on Saturday, the
grandma came up and was the most sincere I have ever seen her. She thanked us for trying really hard to help
Adriana with her reading because they didn't know how to help her. It was really neat to see that a little thing
we did was helping so much!
And then we also got to visit with Adriana's
parents this week. T hat was a miracle because they work like 100 hours a week each...
But we had a good heart-to-heart and helped them to see they needed to come
back to God. Well they all showed up at
church!!!!! Adriana and her little
sister, Adriana's parents, and her grandparents!!!!!!!!! It was so cool! After church, her mom came up and gave me a
hug and told me thanks for helping them come back. And she said that her work is going to give
her a raise and change her schedule, but she is going to tell them that even
more important than a raise is getting Sundays off!!!!!!!!!!!! Hearing
that from her was so awesome!
We also got to teach Kayleigh Reyes again. She’s super prepared! She read while we were gone! She told us she
had a question about what happens after we die... for us missionaries,
questions are the best things ever. They
let us know what the person actually wants to learn about and so they will gain
a testimony a lot easier. So we read Alma
40 all about the spirit world and resurrection and the judgment. After
the lesson we asked her what she will do to follow God and live in Paradise. She told us that she is going to keep reading
the Book of Mormon and come to church and eventually be baptized! The only hold up is that she has soccer
tournaments every Sunday for the next 2 weeks. Then she will be able
to come and be baptized! So we are just
going to help her to read and pray everyday so that she keeps the testimony she
has until she can act on it a lot more.
It was a really good week here on the island! Hopefully this one will be even better!!!
Love you guys! Have fun!
Elder Lund
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