Week 18

The weather is pretty crazy here. One day we were freezing our tails off. We put like 3 hand warmers in our shoes and pockets. Then the next day it's back up in the 70's and there's tornado warnings all day. But it was way nice outside where we are at. Then yesterday it dropped down even lower than before and snowed/rained, so lots of black ice. But I think it's just going to get colder. So good luck to me this week without car, haha. As far as sickness I'm good, just had somewhat of a cough ever since I left. But still doing great. Making sure I work out pretty hard so I don't put on the southern 30 pounds.

This week was a rather slow one. We seemed to find more suajili and Arabic speakers than Spanish speakers. So it was filled with a ton of knocking and not so much success. But it's ok because that will eventually come. Just gotta keep pushing through.

Monday we had the lesson with victor, the guy that met the church 18 years back. And at first we thought it was going to be another "we're catholic and are never going to change, but we respect everyone else's religion" because that's exactly what his wife said.  but then after she said that, our member started going off about the 10 commandments and how they worship images instead of god. And I could tell she was getting offended. But then her husband jumps in and says he agrees.

That's why he doesn't attend the church. Because he believes in the Bible, but he doesn't like all the false doctrines that are taught everywhere. So we started talking about how no matter where you go in the lds church, the doctrine that is taught is the same. So then we started to teach a lesson, but our member started going off about something else. (He's 81 and a little too excited to share the gospel.
He just always goes off on tangents about where they are from and 30 minute long life stories about what we are talking about. We still love him though.) so we couldn't really teach them. But we invited them to read the introduction and 3 nefi 11. And we are pretty sure he's read it. So we are going back this Thursday with one of our fresh rm's so it should be good.

The next couple days we had straight knocking planned and we only found Africans and Arabians. But we still talked to them as much as we could and then got their address for the English elder here that speaks suajili.

Saturday we had a lesson with margarita again and I invited her to be baptized, and she said yes but she wants to wait until she has more time to come to church every week. So we figured out what she needed to do in order to accomplish that and invited her to do that.
Hopefully she follows through.

Yesterday snowed and was super cold and that's about all that happened. But we met a super nice Muslim family from Iraq and struggled through the language barrier. But it was still nice to find a Muslim family that would let us in to talk.

That's it for the week! I don't know when we are planning on FaceTimeing, but I'll try to figure it out by the end of the day, otherwise I'll let you know by Christmas. We just don't know when our dinners are going to be and our church is at an awkward 1.

Con amor,
Elder Williams