Maxaca,
I guess I will start off with the story of the 2nd wedding reception last weekend – the ‘copa de aqua.’ So it was at outside of Fatima’s mom’s house but it was decorated really nice. We showed up about 2 hours late on purpose and were still like an hour early before they started. We had some lessons marked already so we didn’t want to stay very long. Aderito and Fatima walked in and they had a ton of more songs and stuff and it was super nice. So we went up to say congrats and bounce but his dad talked us into sitting down for a second and I knew we would never get out. So before they brought out and served food we tried to sneak out but her grandma caught us and was offended we were leaving so we had to stay ‘at least for food’ she said. So they cut the cake and served us first, it was kind of awkward, everyone was just looking at us and I had no idea what to do so I just ate it haha super good. They brought out all kinds of weird African food that was super good. Long story short we ended staying like over an hour and I got some pretty funny videos of this old lady dancing.
This week we did a lot of looking for new investigators. Last week we knocked apartment buildings and found a guy named Emilton who is way cool. The second lesson we taught the Book of Mormon and he said the first time we showed up he felt a ‘fire in his chest’ and he promised to read the Book of Mormon and come to church. The only problem is he disappeared this week and is never at home and he didn't come to church but we are going to go by again today.
We also found a really cool family, Jeramias and Sheila by knocking doors. It was crazy. We had knocked a ton of doors already but we decided to knock a couple more and this lady runs out and before we even said anything she asks “How did you know where we live? Come in! Come in! Come in!” I was super confused but she said her husband was home so we went in. Turns out my companion, Elder Wartena, and his last companion had contacted them like a month ago in a totally different part of town. They had just moved into the house we knocked and it was an awesome 1st lesson. We were pumped! The next day we came back and it was an ok lesson and they promised to come to church. So Sunday we walked with 2 branch missionaries -Elder Wartena went to walk with Emilton to church and I went to get Jeramias and Sheila. But neither of them came. I was pretty sad. And on the way back the branch missionary I was walking with almost got eaten by a huge dog like the one on The Sandlot. It was pretty crazy. There were 2 dogs, both as big as rhinos, in this fence and he was right next to it when it jumped at the fence right next to his face and almost broke out! I was super scared haha.
We are trying to think of new ideas on how to find people. The zone leaders were knocking doors and trying to get in by teaching the restoration with the bible asking people if they could come in and do a 10 minute bible study with them. So I had an idea of printing out a ton of papers offering free bible studies at peoples houses and leaving a sign up sheet for whoever wanted to leave their name and number and address. Street contacts yield like no results here and it would get us contacts without all the work, and if they signed up hopefully they were really interested. So we dropped our 1st paper off at a place called Pie King and the guy who owns it is from Michigan and he gave us free pies -it was way nice - but it didn’t work. Nobody signed up. But this week we are going to go big scale. Elder Ostler printed out super nice like official sign up sheets and posters. Hopefully it works.
Well I don’t have a ton of time but I’m in the mission office and President Kretly said ‘hi’ to you all.
Love you guys,
Elder Bigelow
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