February 18, 2013

 

Hey familia mia!

This week was pretty good. haha last monday I went to get a hair cut from a less active member (hispanic of course) and little home boy lined up my hair like I would Justin's!!! At least he didn't cut the square in my forehead! haha I'll include a pic. But now where he did the curves the hair is already growing back! hahah oh man...but he also left the top by my cow lick long so I was looking pretty hispanic-y!!! haha so I trimmed that bad boy, I guess he was going for the slicked back look too plus the line up. I was joking with Elder Scott that we will fit in now!

This past Wednesday I went on an exchange with Elder Ochoa, who is the spanish ap now! haha pretty cool. He wanted to go first with me! It was fun, I went to his area which is in Arlington! It’s a really nice little city, lots of buildings! It’s a pretty hip and happening place haha.

So I ate some breaded chicken without realizing it, and my stomach only hurt a little bit but it did mess up my bowels and digestion haha ;)

We have lately found a lot of good people tracting, but this past week got dropped by a couple of them...mostly catholics...it was a little discouraging! A couple of them are in love with the book of mormon which is weird because we read in the introduction that if the bom is true it means this church is true and that Jose Smith really had God's authority to translate it. hmmm...interesting peeps huh? So we'll see, if anything it will plant a giant seed in their corazon!

So in regards to Nelson (the bro who had court to see if he was going to get deported or not) I fasted on Wednesday because Thursday was his court day and we called Thursday morning that they had changed it to August!!! I was pumped haha. Fasting really works and it keeps strengthening my testimony. So we met with him just last night. We were going to teach him about church, the Sabbath, and then WOW! We walk in and I see 2 beer bottles on the table...I'm like great!!! So we start teaching and his wife (gloria) walks in and sits and listens too. (at first she didn't say anything but as the lesson went on she really opened up!!!) So they are really taking it all in..then we get to the WOW, haha he said he used to drink every so often but he doesn’t smoke, drink tea or coffee, or drink booze!!! Same with Gloria. Gloria wondered why not coffee and we explained it and she really understood it way good. They think it just makes perfect sense to take care of their bodies! I was thinking what type of Spanish person doesn't drink coffee!? pretty amazing! super prepared! So we are really looking forward with them and getting them baptized, I really hope so. I mean they accepted to live the WOW and go to church together. Previously we only taught Nelson, but Gloria is very supportive and interested! I didn’t describe it in a way that gives them and the lesson justice, but man it was incredible. We all connected way good, laughing and joking and also being serious when we all needed to! Man...sure hope they get baptized.

So this week tracting we met some weird peeps and had a couple funny stories. One guy answered the door and said "no hay nadie" really loud. haha I was like bro your here!!! Can we teach you?? slams door...mmmm thanks bro hahah. Also another lady (this is at night) turned the porch light on, opened the window and looked at us, closed window, turned off porch light and never answered. I mean if your gonna do that, be sneaky! haha man..

This Thursday we have interviews with president, I'm really looking forward to it! He's always great to talk with.

So I got my lab work done this past Wednesday. I hope you get it soon. IDK it’s pretty hectic all this stuff hahah!!

I don’'t know Elder Frazier personally but I've heard his name before! haha

I got a lot of pics so be patient!! :D

con amor.

Elder Andrew Lifferth