April 26, 2010
Yesterday my comp and I were walking to church in the morning at about 8 a.m. and all of a sudden ten dogs started following us and they were not nice dogs. My comp’s biggest fear is dogs because she was bit once really bad when she was little. They were following us fighting and growling with each other for about ten blocks. Finally we made it to the church and shut the gate in their faces.
I did divisions this week with Hermana Lewis and I went back o my first area and got to visit some of my converts and YES they’re all still active. I was so happy! I miss Aldo Bonzi!
April 19, 2010
I have a favor to ask: I was trying to light the oven to get it going and you have to do it manually here and I had the gas on too long before I stuck the match in there and I almost burned myself to death. It singed a little bit of my hair, but took off my eyelashes on one eye and part of my eyebrow! It’s not too dramatic, but I’m a little embarrassed.
So I want to devote this email to a good story. So there’s this less active couple in our ward and they came to church last week and brought a teenage boy with them. I obviously introduced myself since he wasn’t a member. Anyway, they left during the middle of sacrament so we went by their house Sunday after church and set up an appointment to teach this kid names Lucas on Tuesday. We taught him the first lesson and he understood everything more than any adult I’ve ever taught. He’s 16 years old. We invited him to be baptized and he told us he had to pray. Family, you must understand—this is a golden investigator. We returned again to teach him with these members and taught the Book of Mormon and at the end of the lesson we asked if he had any questions and he asked us if there was a waiting period to be baptized. We asked if he felt ready so we have scheduled it. It was amazing!
The story gets better. Yesterday at church the less active couple that he was supposed to come with didn’t come to church. We called them after the first hour and the lady told me they had company. I had to teach the principles of the gospel class cuz the teacher didn’t come so I sent my comp on divisions to go get Lucas. He was happy to come and wanted to pay for the taxi we used to go pick him up. Yesterday after church we went and visited him. We taught him the Plan of Salvation. Afterward we were just talking and he told us his life story. He’s only sixteen, but he has more of a life story than more adults I’ve met. When he was 14 years old he left his house that he left his house that he lived in with his mom and the mom’s boyfriend. He left to find his father. He found his real dad and when they met up it was a joyous reunion—crying and all. Well, the mom warned Lucas that he was a drunk and abusive. Lucas then realized from the experience when the dad started beating him when he came home drunk every night. He lived with him for five months in a big city about an hour away from here and started working every day ;to support him and his dad because his dad didn’t work and Lucas just gave him all the money and he spent it on beer and stuff.
One day after those five months passed, the dad just never came home. That’s when Lucas began to live alone at the age of 14 working and providing for himself living alone. He got into drugs and stuff. A month ago he lost his job and had to move back. So now he’s getting baptized. What a story!
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