Fun Week

April 29, 2013

Hey Familia!!!

Man....Dad que paso???? haha That sounds like that was pretty terrible experience for you. I'm just glad you're ok now!!! :)

A couple cool things happened this week.

First off, this past week our investigator Arnoldo got taken to jail...I was suprisingly sad...you just love these people so much and it was rough haha. But yesterday after church we talked with his mom and got the direction of the juve place he is at and had a member take us! It was a good experience. It made me think of the spirit world and how that’s kind of my idea for that. There is going to be missionaries to go in and teach people who are in spirit prison. I look forward  to being a missionary there as well :) We are praying that Arnoldo gets out soon. He might may 8, or the 17 and if not by then a lot longer....so we're praying!!!

Also we have been trying a new tracting way. We go around and instead of giving out schpill how we’re missionaries etc, we tell them we are representatives of Jesus Christ and we would like to give a blessing over the family and the house. So we get in and teach a small principle that God is our loving Heavenly Father and explain how He has given us the way to return to Him and that’s Jesus, we explain our relationship with God and then explain how we are going to give the blessing (we've been told to use the Melchesidek priesthood to do it, so it’s the real deal!) haha and then afterwards of course the spirit is strong and we explain what the feeling is and then invite them to be baptized right there and set up a return appointment! It’s really cool. At first I was like man that’s pretty weird! but it’s been really effective, we found 17 new investigators this week by doing that!

Today we are getting another missionary so we'll be in a trio, just like the mtc.

Saturday we had a meeting/conference with the Ritchies'. They are a senior couple missionary and all they do is give these seminars on how to be successful. A little background info for him is that he retired when he was 34, he was a vice-pres for a billion dollar company. Super successful in life and now they serve missions. I think this is their 8th and they want to make it to 10. But we learned a lot on how to become successful spiritually and temporally. And there will be 8 classes throughout the year and that was the first one, so I'm looking forward to learning more!!! I'm really grateful for the opportunity to learn more.

Also I think I requested if maybe you have the time or the means if you could send general conference talks on CD’s in Spanish. If not that’s ok. Also for the translator same thing. If you can great if not no stress!!! :)

Also this week I went on exchanges with an english elder. He just got out here and was already struggling...so I went with him to try to help him. I think it was really good. He has a girlfriend and that’s really distracting him but I talked to him a lot about that ha. Also we had dinner with a family and we got to talking about my health problems somehow and they have 2 kids with hashimotos and not celiac but diabetes. So we talked a lot about that sort of stuff. It was fun haha.

This week was really good, lots of miracles. Some strange stuff but it’s all good. Oh yeah..yesterday at church there was a beggar!!! She was from Maryland and hired a taxi to take her "somewhere where the people are really nice" and the driver thought and knows how the mormon church has a lot of really nice people! haha. The lady has been in this country for 3 months and is from romania and speaks spanish...I guess they show movies and tv shows all in spanish there. But she was just kinda strange... we were trying to have her talk to bishpo but she kept trying to leave...we were like hello do you want help or no?!?! hahaah finally she decided to wait but we had to leave so we don't know what happened...haha

Also I was wondering if you could send some good cardio and other workouts to me.. that I could be able to do in a room (can't really go out running because the comp doesn't want to, so I'm trying to get creative but I keep doing the same workouts haha, I want to mix it up. Please and thank you!

Wow Stephen broke up huh? It’s for the better. Now when he goes on a mission he won't have distractions ;) right?! heheh

Finally I can upload my pics!!! There’s a lot so I'll have to break it up into separate emails :D

con mucho amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth