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September 23, 2013

Hey familia!

 

This week was pretty crazy! last week as soon as we finished emailing you we went outside to get our bikes and bike home only to see that our bikes had been stolen....it's too bad to because we locked them up really good, it was pretty impressive to see that whoever did it did a good job! haha. we talked with the police and filed a report so they can keep their eyes out for them! its all good though!

 

Then on Tuesday I went on another exchange this time with elder olivo and it was really good. I took him to a super good authentic Mexican restaurant! yum!  He is doing good.

 

Then on Wednesday as we were walking we talked with this super awesome open Baptist (kinda rare haha) and she was telling us her story of her conversion to the gospel and how she's changed so much. she told us her beliefs and that she is always disagreeing with what her pastor says and she will straight up tell him that is wrong! haha. she pretty much believed all the stuff we believe she's just in that church...so because of that we were super excited, especially elder peacock. we texted her Saturday to see if we could stop by and she pretty much told us NO....I felt really bad for elder peacock ha...I still haven't told him because he is just so pumped about her...I didn't wanna rain on his parade yet...

 

Then we left our apartment complex on foot to go work when a gringo waved us over and yelled come in here! at first I was like...no lets get walking haha, but we went in. place smelt like a casino...cigarette smoke...its a mess etc etc...I thought to myself uh-oh...haha. he introduced him self as liam and how he has talked to missionaries before and really likes our church he's just super "catholic" and then just to be funny/prove a point he started to smoke and drink in front of us...I was like you're kidding?! haha. even though he was weird and crazy he was super nice too nice, kind of creepily nice haha.

 

Then another time when we were walking and working a member walked by us and talked to us for awhile about his mission and how he just moved here from Utah. he told us some stories from his mission etc. then at the end he looked at us and just really testified how important and great the mission is. haha then to put the icing in the caking he described it as being "really bad a**" me and elder peacock looked at each other kinda confused haha! good guy though.

 

Then late Friday night we just left an appointmet to go home and on the way a black guy stopped us and looked really concerned and told us how there was a shooting in that complex the night before and told us to be careful. He was super nice! covered in tats and piercings but super nice. I think dad asked about that the other week how do the "thugs" respond to us, well so far in my experiences they look out for us.  even though this area is sketchy I have never felt un-safe! I always feel secure and protected, which is a huge blessing!

 

Then on sunday we had 2 investigators come to church! Wilbert and Natalia! it was incredible! they came late and left early because of scheduling/work but he somehow fit coming to church  in his schedule haha. we were really excited! the work is going really good. just trying to work hard!

 

This week we have lots of stuff going on! its going to be crazy as well! but it should be good!!!

 

Well, I sure love you all! I saw that picture of elder moodie on the new era, awww he's so cute hahaha jk! :)

 

let me know if there is anything I can do for ya'll!

 

con amor,

Elder Lifferth