Thursday, September 18, 2014

July 28th

 
Funny story this week, we are walking home for the night, its 10pm and we are pretty close to our piso and President calls. I talked to him and then he asked to talk to my companion and right as I hand the phone to her, these two kids, a girl around 14 years old and a boy around 12 come up to us and just start SCREAMING in our faces and yelling crude things to us in Spanish and I hear Hermana Lionetti start laughing and tell President, "No, no, we´re fine. There are just two kids shouting at us. I don´t understand what they are saying, but I think my comp does. She´s laughing. No, really, President, we are okay. We are almost home." Haha of course, the one time we are shouted at and people say rude things like that to us, we were on the phone with PRESIDENT. Really i was just cracking up because of the ridiculousness of the situation which i think made them angrier and the kids eventually stormed off. It was odd.

WELL but now you are probably wondering why we were talking to President. I´m training! I´m going to pick up the new hermana next week... Weird but I´m excited to train like for real this time. And I´m excited to help a new missionary learn and grow. It will be fun! I´m bummed about only getting a transfer with Hermana Lionetti (especially cause this transfer FLEW by) but I´m excited for this new experience.

Last week we met this man, O... He lives in our apartment complex in the next building over and he´s from Morrocco and he´s muslim, but not practicing and doesn´t even believe in his religion. We went over on Tuesday morning to give him a Book of Mormon in Arabic and we could not get ANY women to come with us. BUT there is a little park in the middle of all the buildings in our complex so we were thinking we could go down and teach him on a bench. We get to his door and he would NOT have it to meet us downstairs. He was offended we rejected his hospitality. He kept saying, "Venga, chicas!" His apartment is really open and you can see right into it from the park, so he thought it was ridiculous having to leave but we were firm and after FIFTEEN MINUTES of trying to persuade him, he finally came down to the park with us. BUT he´s awesome. HE told us he´s not very creyente, but that he wants to have faith like ours. He wants to read the BoM and know if its true. SO COOL! WE just gotta find women to come with us now!

Update on R.., our awesome 61 year old investigator:  He´s incredible. He bought us little lawn chairs so we don´t have to perch on the flower bed anymore and he´s so sincere. And we are meeting so many people through him. We just started teaching his son this week- THAT man is so repentant too. After 4 years in prison, he´s ready to change and take control of his life. They are such humble men and really love our visits. SO GREAT! They won´t accept baptismal dates yet cause they don´t feel ready, but they both want to come to church! WOO!!!

RANDOM THINGS
Hey cool news from our mission, we are getting electronic devices! IPADS! We are going to start using them in October or November... right in time for me to leave.
Things are pickign up a LOT here- we are finding like crazy and we have to the goal to reach the mission standards of excellence this week... WE CAN DO IT!
The work goes really well! We are meeting a bunch of incredible people right now that I can really see progressing and the members are getting excited about the work, suddenly they are remembering us missionaries are still here!
Cool story: we met this man, P.., on the street on Thursday and he´s like not all there. Really slow of speech but he´s really nice and I asked if he´d ever seen the capilla here in fuen and he said yes. Then i said, "Pues, acércate este domingo a las 10" (So come on by on Sunday at 10) and he was like, well maybe. So we are sitting in gospel principles class and i see a man walk by the window and i was like, "uhh hermana... is that paco??" we ran out of that class right quick and grabbed him! Haha he came on his own on his way to the beach! But after all teh meetings I asked how he liked it and he said it "changed him" and that he needed to go home and think about soem things. We have an appointment with him today... cool but random, right?
 There are cockroaches in my piso, i´ll send some pics. ITs gross. but did you know that if you just flip them over, they can´t get back over, so evenutally they just die lying on their backs? So all over you just see cockroaches flipped over. Then you sweep them up adn throw them away. its a tragic death but a much cleaner solution than squishing them.
 My scripture for you this week is 2 ne 22:2, I am obsessed with this scripture. I love the language in it and i love that when we trust in Christ and have faith in Him, we really have NO reason to fear, He is watching out for us and in the end, everything will be alright.
I love you all so much, I hope you have an excellent week and are staying cool!

LOVE YOU!
HERMANA FOLSOM


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