¿QUÉ ACABA DE PASAR?
Dear everyone I love,
Ok,
what just happened?? Did I just get a pouring out of prayers from home
or something? This week has been QUITE different from the previous
one.
Why? I will tell you soon. But FIRST shout out to Jeffrey Chatman!!
Woo! It´s you´re birthday! You are 20 you old man... AND I got your
email last week, and it was very appropriate and comforting for how last
week was. So, thanks a bunch, friend! Mom, and Dad, thanks for all
the updates from home. I wish I could enjoy all of it with you guys
(except for all of the terrible sports things that have happened), but I
know that yall already know how much I love it out here too.
Anyway,
here´s what happened first this week. For some WEIRD reason, and I
don´t know what happened overnight, but I can somehow speak spanish a
LOT better this week. A LOT better. Maybe it´s because I haven´t eaten
any bad tacos recently, but I have been able to have some pretty decent
and substantive conversations with the other missionaries that only
speak Spanish. YES YES YES! I think, Dad, that I am finally getting
past the first stage of understanding Spanish. You see, this week I was
able to contact an entire BUS of people. We had interviews with
President Villarreal, and on the way back, 4 of us missionaries rode on a
bus to Tenancingo.
Usually when we do that though, we don´t like to sit around casually
like lame, timid missionaries; we talk to EVERYONE on the bus... at the
same time. Yes, and we have taken turns who stands in front and speaks
to everyone. So guess who´s turn it was then. That´s right... Now, if
you know me, you know that I´ve never been one that is at all
intimidated by public speaking, things in front of crowds, or even
making a fool of myself. And I knew what to say, but I was just hoping
that my mouth wouldn´t stutter or that I wouldn´t forget a word or two.
So anyway, I got up, and I could feel my tounge just flow with the
spanish words. I announced with my powerful voice (and yes if you know
me, you also
know that my voice is loud and powerful) that we were missionaries from
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and that we taught the
Gospel of Jesus Christ which brings salvation and happiness to all.
Then I told then that whoever wanted to hear this message should raise
their hand, and I would personally pass by, and teach them while we were
on the bus. 4 raised their hand. I taught all of them with fluent
remembrance of the Doctrine and spanish vocabulary. Of course, I
slipped up a word here and there, but I KNEW that the Lord had helped me
get to this point, because even when a lawyer tried to confuse me in my
words (yes one of those 4 was litterally a lawyer, just like the
stories from the scriptures), I still answered him back with confidence,
and I knew EXACTLY what to say. Wow. I felt like Alma.... it was
FREAKING AWESOME!
Haha!
Anyway, another good thing that happened this week is that we had 7
investigators attend church this week!! No, Meli and Amparo were still
not among them (and I´ll talk about them some other time), but 4 of
them was a WONDERFUL family that I met about a week and a half ago
called the Fuentes Valasquez
family. Wanna know how great they are? They have followed through
with EVERY committment (in reading the Book of Mormon, attending chruch,
praying, etc.), and they thought that the church experience was so
beautiful. Plus the kids DIDN´T want church to be over. Now, I don´t
know about you, but I think that they´re CRAZY. Because when I was a
little kid, even I was SO TIRED after church. But no, they were really
wonderful about everything, and it looks like they will be baptized this
coming Sunday!
This
week has really been a miracle, and it´s due to two more factors that
I´d like to mention. I have felt your prayers, and I´VE been praying
diligently, and fasting more frequently. Thank you so much for all of
that. This just all just illuminates how true it was when Jesus said
that certain miracles cannot be done exept it be done with "much prayer
and fasting" (Matthew 17:21). Secondly, I was REALLY inspired to work
when I got out of my interview with the Pres. I´m not gonna lie, before
this Thursday, I was actually pretty scared of
the man, but this time I finally got to know him, and talk to him much
better than before. One of many things I remember me telling me is " I
know that you are feeling pretty down because you and Elder Monroe haven´t
baptised in awhile... but you can´t get down. We need you, Elder
Hutchinson. You have to be INVIGORATED by it. You have to be motivated
by it." And then he put my as senior comp for the rest of this
transfer... Yikes! The responsibility. That´ll get you REALLY
motivated haha.
Anyway, I´m out of time. I love you all!! I´m praying for you, and I´ll write next week! Hasta luego!
Love
Elder Christian Hutchinson.
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