All,
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Here, this holiday seems to basically be a reason to get drunk, as all it is is the commemoration of the battle of the flowers in Puebla Mexico, in the which the pueblonians beat back the invading frenchies. In their honor, the Latinos get drunk. So fun huh :)?
So this week we spent a lot of time running around without much getting done.
Among the things we did were have someone from my area at LAE (LA English classes), for the first time since January. Yay! Turns out she's the mother of a LA member, Marlene Gonzalez. We'll see where that goes, as it's not exactly promising. Yay!
We've effectively dropped Los Gxxxxxxx. They say they're getting married, but I see no legwork being done so until they have a marriage date, there's nothing we're going to do until they present us with an actual wedding date. Until that happens, we cant accomplish any work to bless them.
As to
teaching, it's going, not nearly as fast as i'd like. But I have faith
that it'll all work out. it always does. And our investigators are all basically
unchanged, aside from Oscar Exxxxxxx, whose baptismal date got bumped back to
the 25th, as he didn't get interviewed.
As a result of that, I've come to the conclusion that a great challenge is having the attitude of letting life happen to them instead of making life happen. It's really exasperating actually, and difficult to helping the work move forward.
The challenge is so many don't understand the baptismal covenant. We take the "serve God till the end of your days to mean accept callings and do stuff in church" Many take this to mean "come to church when I feel like it, read the Book of Mormon when it's convenient, and expect visits from the church w/o doing any in return, and never accept callings." The differences in this understanding are stark and are the difference between being happy or always wonering where happiness can be found.
I had someone straight up tell me "no, I don't want a calling". I wanted to wring his neck. He wants to go to the temple and he has the Melchizedek priesthood...so baffling and frustrating. I really hope he he will get ready soon.
On the flip side of that though, Elder Howlett and I, after much prayerful deliberation, have decided that we will set a goal of baptizing 6 people this transfer as this area has the people to back that up, doubling our yearly goal in this area for baptisms, 5. This area already has 4 on the year.
We also started to work actively to reactivate Los Mxxxx. They have one of our investigators, Willy Gxxxxxx, living with them. We cannot baptize him until they are active as if they ain't active, he won't stay active either, and he'll just hang around on the ward list taking up space.
Also, we just got a call from a random guy who needs an ambulance, oh the joys of giving our number out w/ the LAE cards. So bizarre.
I love South Central LA. Such a weird place.
We met a nice man named Omar Saturday, he owns a store at 95th and Vermont, and he chills behind bulletproof glass in his tienda (store) with a massive knife as "you need something in this barrio [hood]" such a fun place.
But nothing will happen to us, we are on the Lords errand, and people know and respect the uniform. There ain't too many white boys in this barrio, particularly with shoulder bags and ties.
That's the week,
Que Dios os bendiga,
(May God Bless Us)
C
Elder Wilson
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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