This week was better!
Last week was terrible
and it ended with a crazy anti. This crazy old homeless man called
us servants of Satan that bring people down to hell with our abominable church.
He YELLED at us and kept yelling as we walked away. He even yelled "get
thee hence servants of Satan.” Yep, it was a good
week. I've never been called Satan before (sad face). He
said we were brainwashed and we couldn’t even tell that he was an "apostle
of God" standing right in front of us. This coming from a really
smelly homeless guy who had safety pins holding together his pants, reading a
book from the Jehovah’s Witnesses that said "Did Jesus really die on the
cross?" That was 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get
back.
It didn't really shake me
up; it was more shocking than anything else. But still some of the things he
said were replaying in my mind throughout the day, so I said a quick
prayer to have an experience that day to strengthen my testimony. It
was really neat how many ways that prayer was answered. I know this church is
true.
Last weeks trials =
blessings and miracles this week.
We had a sweet lesson
with "P". When we got there he said, "I was going to text you
guys. I was wondering if we could talk about baptism today and how I
would go about doing that." I love the Book of Mormon. It
really is the key. He's in Alma already
and he's so solid, he loves learning and can't wait for us to come
over. He said he really believes we are
"angels." It's funny how often we hear
that. Because clearly we aren’t, but they're recognizing that they
can feel the spirit. So “P” is getting baptized on the 10th!
He has to give up smoking though. We're making a deal that he gives up smoking
and we will give up chocolate. He has to give up smoking forever but we can't
promise that with chocolate. We’ll see how long we last.
All week long we had the
feeling that we should stop to see “A”, one of the recent converts. We stopped
by, but he wasn't home and he didn't answer his phone. On Friday morning we
called him and he picked up. He is usually the happiest guy ever and he is so
outgoing. When he picked up we knew something was wrong. Hermana H
couldn't understand what he was saying and she gave the phone to
me. He said he had been in the hospital the last week and about 2
minutes ago they just pulled the plug on his wife and she passed
away! He was in shock and couldn't talk. He just told me
the hospital room number, BUT IT WAS OUT OF OUR STINKIN AREA so we couldn't go!
We called our ward and told them and they were great and dropped everything to
go to the hospital and help. He and his wife are only 50 but she just has some
intestinal problem I guess. He came to church on Sunday and just looked
so broken and just kept crying and crying. The second he saw us he pulled me in
and hugged me. I don't care if it's against the rules- the man needed a
hug. He was crying so hard. On top of his wife dying, he is
losing his house this week. It's so hard to know other people are going through
so much and have so much pain and not be able to do anything. All
sacrament meeting was about the atonement and it was everything he needed to
hear.
The other Elder in our
ward is training a new greenie. It's pretty entertaining. His Spanish is
priceless and it's really hard not to laugh. I can only make fun of
him because we all have been in his situation. He didn't understand
anything at church when people were talking to him and so he gave up
and fell asleep in all 3 meetings. Oh Spanish.
We had a mission
president's fireside in Spanish and it was fun to see some of the other Spanish
missionaries I’ve served with. Elder D used to be in our ward here
in Tempe and now he's in my old branch in
Gilbert. Remember Bernice - of my first baptisms? I guess her
daughter moved back in with her and is getting baptized this weekend! It is fun
seeing other missionaries and catching up.
Well that is pretty much
what happened this week.
Okay I love you
I miss you!
I LOVE YOU-
Love, Kaitlyn
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