So what happened with the revelations guy?
Me and Hna Estrada were walking by and this guy is like with a crazy grumbly smokey voice, “Hey! Can I have one of those little books?” And we were like, Okay… I think he was drinking coffee or smoking or something so Hna Estrada gave him a pamphlet for the Word of Wisdom, and he said thanks, and that he likes to read, and “do you have any other ones?” So we gave him two or more pamphlets and tried to start talking to him about what they were about, but he keeps talking about how he likes to read, and how he has this, “wonderful book,” and he keeps going on and on about the wonderful book that he has, and he picks it up to show us (I have no idea what book it was, a book from one of the churches that wasn’t a bible), and he starts flipping through the pages, he stops on one page, acts like he’s reading a moment, and then his eyes start fluttering and he looks towards heaven.
“Hermano?” says Hna Estrada….
He keeps receiving revelation…
“Hermano, lo sentimos… we have to go, but maybe when we pass by we can talk about what you read in the pamphlets?”
Yeah… we didn’t come back… Maybe we should talk to him again sometime.
Why did Paty decide to start investigating the church?
Well, she liked to bug me when I first got here a little bit. She’s pretty much grown up in the street (not exactly, she spends the nights in either the house of her mom and grandma or her aunt, but the rest of the day she’s all over the town), and as one of the members said, she’s “malcreada.” Which I’m not sure exactly how to translate that, but it means badly created… it’s like saying “white trash,” I think. But anyways, we taught a lesson to a family and she was there listening, but even though she seemed interested, she bluntly refused to take a pamphlet and let us teach her again.
Weeks later we saw her pass late at night all alone and we entered the house and Hna Estrada said something about how some people had worried her and that she had wanted to get in the house quick, and I said, “I’m worried about Paty.” Because we’d seen her go who knows where, and Hna Estrada said, “I feel the same.” So we left to go look for her, and we didn’t find her, but we talked to her mom and her grandma and they pretty much said they’d like us to teach her because she’s “tremenda” and she’s only 12…
Anyways, Paty found out about it and I think it caught her interest that we were worried about her, that we felt like God was worried about her, so she let us teach her after that. And I’ve seen the difference in her already, she’s gone to church three times now, and she said yesterday that she read and prayed and had received her answer that the church is true. YAY!!
So hopefully she and Zuleyma will get baptized the 24th of March. So… please pray for Paty and Zuleyma because they need the courage to do it. And Fam Miranda is a new family we’re teaching and they need the faith to go to church because they work like crazies. (Hno Alex is in jail for now because he went selling things in a dangerous part of town and got robbed, so the owner of the bicycle and the things that he was selling put a warrant on him. I don’t know if we can teach Fam Cano anymore because Karla just doesn’t want to marry Alex, and he’s been lying to us and members and hasn’t made the necessary changes yet. I don’t know why we’ve taught so many crazy people, but I just feel like all our investigators are really weird… like, they receive answers that the church is true and then reject it.)
When does the rainy season start for El Salvador?
March, supposedly. Haven’t gotten rain yet. Just dying in the heat… whuf. Wouldn’t mind if the rain started. This and the next month are the hottest parts of the year in one of the hottest areas of El Salvador.
I’ve been really disappointed that we haven’t had baptisms for two months, and I was thinking, geez, if I’m not going to do anything I might as well go home, because someone else can do it better, but I feel better when I read in the Book of Mormon and there are quite a few prophets that never see any success for the people they teach, and almost everyone of them at some point say, “good night. What am I doing? I’m going home,” but they never do… And really, Edward might be dead if he had not been baptized when he was baptized. One of his best friends died recently from an accident because he was drunk–who knows if Edward would have been with him if he weren’t a member? And someday Irvin will serve a mission too… So although I haven’t helped a ton of people yet, it is worth it for those I have….
Love,
Bekah
