4th of July--Pizza Hut
¡Buenas!
Pretty
good week. We celebrated the 4th of July by going to Pizza Hut for
lunch. Ya, 'Merica! The waitress messed up our order but whatever. When
we visited members that day, I told them ¨Feliz día. Hoy celebramos el
primer paso de la Restauracion.¨ They all thought it was kind of funny.
We´re in the process of dropping a lot of
investigators right now. They aren´t progressing and they are just
dragging us down with them. It´s really tough to do because we´ve had so
many great lessons with them, but they just aren´t ready right now to
keep commitments.
I remember hearing before the mission that it´s
tough getting the door slammed in your face everyday. I think I would
prefer that, because we have great contacts and a lot of return
appointments. When we go the next day, however, they somehow aren´t
there. It happens a lot with our ¨progressing¨ investigators too. I get
my hopes up, but then my heart literally gets ripped out.
Thankfully, we have one investigator who is truly
being converted. He and his wife are making preparations to be married
and then baptized this upcoming week or the following week if the
marriage doesn´t work out this week. The husband has been working like a
burro lately to save up money for the marriage papers. The colony where
he lives got their water taken away recently and he is the only one
that has the proper tools to build water wells. (Tender mercy of the
Lord) He rents the equipment and then charges to help build the well.
His personal well for his wife was having problems, and he worked
through the night to build another one for his family instead of
sleeping after a long day working at the Don Julio Chile factory and
building other wells. All in the meanwhile, he has a smile on his face
because he can´t wait for his baptism. He has no excuses. As the parable
goes, he is selling everything he has to buy the field with the hidden
treasure. I hope we can find more people like him or at least help
people get to that level of commitment.
Well, that´s all I have. Love you all.
-Elder Lund
Ocotillo, El Carmen, SPS 7/1/14 - 7/7/14
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