Email 5/25/11

Well I don't feel like there is anything terribly exciting to write this week. So it'll be a short one..

We spent a lot of time biking...which you know makes me super duper happy...But after a few days of it we started seeing the blessings..We picked up a few new investigators this week..it's still really slow though. 

We've got one investigator that appears to be golden because he wants to get baptized and is reading the Book of Mormon and is progressing really quickly..but we both have the weirdest feeling about him like he's hiding 

something or we are missing something...It's just too easy...The spirit is there but it's not like is usually 

is..and he just accepts everything and never has any deeper questions...I don't know how to describe it but we are missing something. We'll see.

I can't remember anything particularly funny..I'm getting used to all of our crazy oyms...

Oh haha ok I remember one..

So we OYM'ed this Spanish guy like 2 weeks ago and he was really really weird and super duper animated..He kept touching my head and putting his hand on me and saying I was blessed and saying I was cute (in a little girl kind of way) and he kept telling bible stories about Daniel and Moses and as he tells them his arms are all over the place and he's practically dancing with his hips swaying back and forth..he was clearly 

some type of preacher for some church with his little sermon. So 2 weeks ago the conversation ended with him saying if we meet again it will be fate..but he tried to say a sentence in English and kept confusing himself with 

faith and fate...So the other night we ran into him again and he was really really excited. 

The weird thing is he only talks to me. He told me I remind him of Catherine Coleman? (Who we are pretty sure is either an actress in Mexico or a Ecclesiastical prophetess) Anyway the whole time he was 

preaching to me about how God has plans for me and one day is really going to use me to do his work...and we were like HELLO HENCE WHY WE ARE HERE...but then he would say "How cute..no but one day He will REALLY use you  because you teach with power and authority and he will call you as a prophetess 

among the nations and teach by the spirit"..creepy right?  We started getting really annoyed after a while because then he was claiming himself to be  a prophet and claiming one day I would join 

him as a prophetess...Yep...He kept swaying his hand in front of my face,...like I was supposed to be in a trance or something? And saying how I would be known from all around...He started dancing a little 

bit more and I couldn't help it and I was laughing out loud at this point...We'd already tried to explain the Restoration and how we believe there is only one prophet and how we believe this is the only church holding the authority..but it was like talking to a swaying monkey..I was literally ducking to avoid his hand at one point. He ended by yelling some weird blessing at me..blessing that I would know my potential and 

that my little companion would follow me.." (which made her really mad..for some reason I think because she's short, people never take her serious..all of our investigators and members only talk to and 

look at me in the eyes and it really bugs her. 

This same night right after that crazy guy we OYM'd this other guy...Who started the conversation with "Don't you know who I am?"...Probably the most cocky arrogant man I've ever met in my life. 

He was like 26 ish and just talked about how he believes God is ridiculous  and all he needs is a beer and friends..a place to hang his hat and rest his head.....He then said he would never be Mormon 

especially because he has a friend and she is Mormon and she married this Mormon guy and now they are struggling for money because they are young and they just believe in God so they are hopeless. He said he 

felt embarrassed for her Mormon husband because he couldn't pay for her phone and now she doesn't have a cell phone and that makes his a "terrible husband" even if he believes in God he should make the bills 

first before just praying to someone that doesn't exist and making an embarrassment of his wife as well....JERK..So before I had time to think I was chewing him out, it came out fast and I couldn't take it 

back...I told him there was nothing more unattractive than a man that doesn't believe in God and how I'm pretty sure Me or any other woman would rather marry a broke plumber struggling to make the bills than be 

stuck with some arrogant man who believes he's higher than any higher power.. He got defensive pretty fast and started saying that maybe their was a God and one day he will probably look into religion when he settles 

down but for right now it's not what he wants..It ended up being a descent conversation...But it just made Hermana Hansen and I appreciate good men a little more.

Okay well that's the gist...

Have a good week!

LOVE YOU!