Hello everyone!
I hope that you are all enjoying this lovely weather! It has been soo hot over here… it is insane! I have been sweating through my shirts like mad! But don’t worry, I have been applying plenty of sunscreen and various lotions so I am ok!
This week was so nuts! We spent a lot of time finding.. Our investigators were all very busy and did not have time to meet with us! So we did a lot of tracting and street contacting! Everyone makes fun of me up here for liking street contacting so much! They think I am still too caught up in my china town days. But I love it! I love talking with people! Tracting, you will talk with maybe 5 people in a whole hour.. Street contacting, you can talk to 20 people in an hour! It is fun! I love weeks when we do a lot of finding because we always meet the funniest people! This week there were some very interesting people! Everything from people that professed to be witches, to rock stars!
The rock star one was hilarious! We go and knock on the door of this huge, scary looking mansion with a large manikin in the front window wearing a mask and this short man with a beard answers. He says “oh we love Jesus come on in”! Elder Boekweg and I hesitantly went inside! As he unloaded his groceries, he talked with us about his life! He is in a heavy metal band! And lives a crazy life! His mansion also has the other members of his band living in it. The walls had huge holes and the floor was covered in dents from when they party! It was weird! He then wanted us to help him unload this huge inflatable so his kids could play on it! That was very interesting!
I also found a vine this week! Now I am not talking like a grape vine here… I am talking like a full on Tarzan vine! I saw it on the side of a street we were tracting! I of course, (as any one would do) went to go test the vines durability. Assuming from everything that Bear Grylls (from man vs wild) has said, this vine would support my weight. I gave it a big tug and then proceeded to take a swing. I am sure you can see where this is going.. I fell really hard on my back. And almost stained my pants.
I don’t know if I told you last week about the investigator I met form Haiti. He was so awesome and we really thought that he was prepared! He was prepared! But after we left his house he went on like 10 different anti-Mormon websites. It was really too bad! We walked into his house for our second lesson with him and you could already tell that something had changed. He printed off a page for each of us on why our church was wrong. We started trying to explain some of the things but it didn’t matter. He was already convinced. Not knowing what to do, I bore my testimony. I have never felt the spirit so strong as I defended everything that I believe in. It really became evident to me how much Satan does not want this work to continue on! It was sad.
As for the rest of our investigators, they are still doing great! We were not able to give Tom his blessing this week to help him quit smoking but this Tuesday we are going to! I am so excited! He is such a great guy. I can’t wait to see what is going to happen. Everyone else has been so busy and has not even been able to get in contact with us! It is discouraging at times! But, I have noticed I am always quickly humbled when I see how fast the lord gets my back. Right as I start to feel that nothing I am doing is working, we will run into some one or get a call from someone awesome. That always helps me so much! This week after a long day of tracting, I was feeling so tired and discouraged. But right then, one of our investigators called and invited us to come eat dinner with them this Friday! They are going to make Argentinean food! I am so excited!
Well, I hope that you all had a great week! Thank you so much for the love and support! I am sorry this email is a little short but we are going to the driving range! I am excited… I have never done this before! Have a great day!
Elder Barton
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