This week had some struggles, which get enlarged by the heat and humidity, but nothing too serious. We have been learning a lot as a companionship. All in all, it was just kind of a weird week.
On Monday night, we started exchanges. I had Elder Hoyt, a bigger guy serving on Galveston in English, come to me, and Elder Sharp went to the island for a bit in English. The day with him was super slow. No one opened the doors; I later learned that was the pattern for the week -_- Elder Hoyt is an awesome missionary, who is close to the Lord, and dedicated, but he's so socially awkward. I was glad I'm with Elder Sharp and he's more or less normal. But the consecration, in the end, is what matters most!
On Wednesday, we had a Zone Conference with four zones, and President Hall. I can't say I learned a ton, because we'd heard it all in MLC and the study we had with Pres. It was a good refresher. It was fun being a Zone Leader for one of those! They made all 8 of us come up and do a role play in front of all the missionaries. That was kind of nerve wracking, but really cool.
We met a crazy guy last week named Victor who told us (drunk and high) that there were vampires in the world, and he was one of them, and the complex where he lives gets vampirey at night. He had wet his pants, and his face was blue on half of it. He told us another day, when he was more sober that he was beat up buy a thug, who he and a few of his friends killed later. And he told us that he was hired to kill tons of people. He drinks daily, and refuses whatever we tell him; so we dropped him. But yeah, the vampire thing was kinda interesting. Elder Sharp has a voice recorder he sends back and forth with his parents; he recorded a lot of that conversation. Funny.
Thursday was a big failure; aka learning experience. We saw two people, and tried everyone. In the old Northwest area and the current North one. We saw a guy named Marc. I'm not a big fan, but Elder Sharp has been friends with him his whole mission. We tried to half teach him a lesson, and half do a role play (let it be known that Marc knows almost everything about Mormons, but isn't a member). It was bad. We didn't get anywhere. We both left frustrated, and kind of angry at each other. After analyzing what happened, we actually learned a lot and strengthened the companionship. Tough day.
We might have lost an investigator, Rony. He had a date, and is the brother of one of our strongest members, Favio. They live together, and got in a big argument, and are not on speaking terms; as such, Rony doesn't want anything to do with anything that has to do with Favio, including church and soccer on Fridays. We're pretty sad about it.
But we did find a prepared guy named Alfredo. Please pray that he will progress (specifically not to have problems with the Law of Chastity). He was a former investigator, and has almost read the whole Book of Mormon. He's pretty cool! He wants to get baptized, and wants to come to church. Could be big!
We got super nice ties from a reactivating guy, Hno Robles. We've been hanging out with his 26 year old son, Marvin, trying to get him back to church. They came yesterday :D But as we've become better friends, we got sweet ties :) Mine's purple and grey. Pretty nice.
Well, I promise I'm learning. And I promise I'm loving it! Have a wonderful week! I love you all,
-Elder Spjute
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