Dear everyone that I love,
This
week has consisted of fun things (which I thrive upon), and very hard
and stressfull things (which I don´t like as much, but still thrive
upon). What are these things you ask? Well, I´m glad you asked!
HARD
-Having
a goal of 200 contacts in a week. What´s a contact? "Hello we´re
representatives of Jesus Christ..." And then after there are various
reactions of either saying that they´re in a hurry, getting mad at you,
our being
completely fascinated and wanting to here absolutely everything that
you say. Fun contacting, but HARD to do it 200 times in a week. BUT
it´s our goal for this week, so we´ll see how things go.
-Not recieving sports updates... can I just have a few please? :)
-Not
talking. For me, not talking is one of the hardest things that I have
to do. When we teach, we teach as a companionship, and that´s how it
SHOULD be.
And Elder Cruz is a FANTASTIC teacher. However, he talks a lot
sometimes in the teaching. And eventhough, I know that how he teaches
is a lot better than how I teach, I still have that urge to blurt
something out with the relatively loud voice that I inheritated from my
Mother (love you, by the way). However, I´ve learned a lot from it, and
Elder Cruz has already told me that he knows that he talks to much, so
we´re in the process of balancing things out. Hooray for companionship
inventory!
FUN (or funny...or just plain weird things that one can view as funny)
-The
Salazar Orozco family, Lilia Becerra Parra, and Ana Beatriz (a new
SUPER GOLDEN
investigator that we found this week) all going to church!! Have I
told you how much it makes me happy to see them happy? WELL, it does.
The Salazar Orozco family and we have shared some very spirtual
experiences together. My companion and I shared personal experiences
and they all started to bawl... and I may or may not have shed a tear or
two... They confessed to us that they actually had NO CLUE why they
opened their door to us in the first place, because they normally would
have been one of those happy-door-slammers like the one that didn´t like
my accent in Toluca. However, they have developed and felt such love
as they went to church, and they want us to keep coming and do all that
we can to keep sharing the gospel. Will do, will do.
-A
Christian woman that acompanied one of our best investigators that
wanted to speak to me in "tongues." This was our conversation.
Her: Do you speak tongues too? Because I speak and interpret tongues.
Me: Well, I´m here in Mexico speaking Spanish, eventhough I´m from Texas... so yes maam.
Her: Oh...
I think she had a different idea of "tongues" But anyway, it just made me laugh.
-A
new and semi-crazy teenage investigator that we have. We met her
because she was selling donuts, and I said to myself "Go
get me a donut!!" So I bought some; we contacted her; and she would
love for us to pass by this week. There´s just one complication: her
parents are going out of town and because she was bad the last time they
left (I didn´t ask why), she´ll be staying with the nuns this week.
Yes, nuns this week. I do love the nuns, because they have such a
devotion to Christ, and I trully respect them. But I think it might be
kind of weird and a little bit difficult trying to tell them that our
investigator invited us in their home to share our message... BUT IT´LL
BE FUN!
My
spiritual thought is simply this title: You are Important to Him. The
worth of EVERY soul is great in the eyes of God. And don´t you forget
it. I´m not perfect, but I will NOT forget it. Because it is why I am
here. When we are just about to fall down, that´s when the Lord helps
us the most. He knows each and everyone of us perfectly. He know´s
what we are capable of. He sees what man does not see. For, while men
see what´s on the outside, the Lord sees what is inside each of his
children, and their potential to become like Him.
Anyway,
I´m out of time, but I love you all so much. Let me know if I haven´t
been giving you the details that you´ve wanted and I´ll put them in.
Until next week!
Love,
Elder Christian Hutchinson.
