Week 99

USC part 2 week 2

Monday we started out doing our normal pday stuff of laundry and shopping. While we were walking to do our laundry we came across this guy in the street and he just looked like he was having a really rough day. Oh, little bit of information, the laundromat that we go to is right across the street from the church, and the church is right by a major bus stop. So this guy is at the bus stop and we have to walk by him to get to the laundromat and back into the church. So on our way back from the laundromat he just starts yelling everything at us! We decided that when we were going to take our laundry out that we would take the long way and not walk by him. For the rest of the day (no joke) he was just screaming up a storm for everyone to hear, it was crazy. Elder T and Elder B hung out with us that day because none of us had plans and we don't have a car to go visit cool places. They had brought a frisbee with them (and left it I might add) and it was super fun to play frisbee. The basketball game was so different because the skill level was heavily weighted in favor of our companionship, by comparison. The entire time we shot with our left hands and it was just ridiculous. We went home and made some chicken and rice and then poured some orange chicken sauce over it (who needs panda when you have the sauce?). We ended the day visiting with Y and talking about New Years goals. One of her goals for this year is to become a nicer person. It was a really touching moment because she just realized that God is happy when we want to improve and she came up with the goals all by herself.

Tuesday we went to go do service again at Glens which was really fun because we organized the shelfs again. You can basically say that the reason why all the stuff is in an organized way at that place is because of us... just cause we are there a lot and with 4 missionaries who organize, easy. We then quickly went home to change into normal clothes because we had a lunch appointment with the R family. This R family is different than the one you hear about. Hermano R is 102 years old and he is still kickin it. The Hermana R tried to sign up on the dinner list but we always have something going on and so does she so we have never eaten with them. Well, right as we pulled into their yard I noticed that Elder W had a huge hole in his pants around the back pocket area. So the entire time at the R house I was following behind him making sure that they didnt see it. Afterwards we went back to the apartment and he changed pants. We swung by the G home to see if we could catch G and K to see how they were doing. G was getting ready for work and K had some huge splinters in his finger. He was in a lot of pain and was waiting for his mom to get out of the bathroom so she could help him remove the sliver, so we decided to help him. It was pretty funny cause the youngest brother A was watching us in horror as if we were performing a surgery or something. We got the sliver out and K was so thankful. The mom then basically acted like K was a drama queen who over exaggerated everything. We shared a quick message with them before they had to leave. We then went to go and see the O family. This time it was just the sons and the mom. We had a good lesson about the Restoration and the sons are doing super good. We gave them a copy of the Book of Mormon to read and we invited them to read in the introduction of the Book of Mormon. At the end of the lesson, we were talking to the Hermana about Honduras and she was talking about this food and that food and (you know how missionaries are) whenever someone is talking about food you just tell them that you have never tried the food (because everyone makes it differently) and you will soon get a lunch appointment out of it. So that happened. We ate dinner with the C family, they are definitely the favorites so far, just cause they are so cool. The dinner was perfect. The Hermana told us basically that the dinner was a "punt" because she didnt get home in time to cook what she wanted to, so she just put some stuff together, well it was good. It was just some good ol chicken, rice, and beans with tortillas and avocado... MIRACLE! We then had to travel clear across our area to go visit with the L family. It was a quick lesson with the L family and we found out that the son, Alan, really doesn't know a lot about God, or who Jesus Christ is, so it might take a little bit longer for him to understand everything, but the family is super cool and the lesson was good too. Not too shabby for a Tuesday right;)

Wednesday it was rainy 

Saw H

Dinner at G

Coorelation with the newbie

Youth were playing basketball - DONIS!!!

Thursday was a really crazy day. We got a call from K who is a recent convert in the area asking us if we could come "tell her uncle that he is wrong" about gospel topics. Basically telling us to come over and bible bash with the guy. Both Elder W and I figured that that would be a bad idea and that we should just stop by and try to talk to the guy and get to know him. We stopped by for the lesson and it turns out the uncle left to go run some errands. That was a huge relief off our backs because did not want to argue whatsoever. We then went to go and see S the little girl and she was doing good. At the end she started talking about one of her friends. She asked if we knew the friend, we said yes, she said asked us if we thought the friend was nice, and we said yes. She then starts to tell us that the friend just turned super mean and did crazy stuff. She pushed S down a set of stairs and then started texting her really mean things and calling her bad names and saying that she was going to kill her and stuff.... so we just told S how awesome she is and that we are here for her.

Friday we saw the O family and brought B over. It was a good lesson. Went to eat at the V home, they made pupusas, we were so stuffed. We then visited with the E family with Hermano F and set a baptismal date with G.

Saturday we had ZTM which was ok. It is really weird when there are a lot of newbies in the zone and you don't know anyone. We got back to the apartment and ate some food and then went to go visit H. He wasn't there, which was really sad. We then went to go give a blessing to the A family. Hermano A has bad eye problems right now and is about to head into a surgery on Monday. We talked with the family for a bit and got to know them and then we gave the dad a blessing. We then stopped by the C family because M had a surgery on his throat on Friday. Only his dad was there and he let us in and we talked for a little bit. It was really touching for him to talk openly about his feelings about M and how he wants the best for his son. Little back story on M. He has a paralyzed vocal chord and so they have done surgeries since forever every year on M. Because its a problem with his vocal chord, he doesn't speak as loud as others and can only manage to whisper. Then there came these weird things that grow inside his throat that they have to laser out every once in a while. The doctors told him that once he was older that they would go away, but they have been coming back more frequently than before. The doctors don't know why they grow and they don't know what to do to stop them from growing, pretty sad. We talked to the dad for a little bit when M walked through the door. He was glad to see us and we told him that we had just stopped by to see how he was doing and if he was feeling any better. We then said a prayer and left.

Sunday we had church and that was good. A lot more people came to church this week because they got the memo about the change in time. We had the former WML in our gospel principles class and he was trying to fight for power of giving the class the entire time. It was a little frustrating. We had a good number of the RC in our area come to church which was really nice to see. Not a lot of our investigators ended up coming to church though. The family didnt come, G didn't come, just the normal people of Y and the Fs. They are super cool and all, but we were really hoping for those new faces at church. After church we went to G's bday party because they were celebrating it (and thats why they didnt come to church) so it was a little weird because they had like no decorations and only their immediate family was there, so we have no idea why they couldn't come to church: hint: they just didnt wake up in time or they didnt want to. Anywho, after that A invited us over for dinner and we had pizza and chicken wings with soda, so American I love it. We talked a lot about a variety of topics and he is solid on doctrine and he loves learning about new things in the gospel. We finished off the night with the C family and they are super cool. 

Love,

Elder Roberts