Visiting other cities

Another week. This week the Assistants came to visit our area and the neighboring city to work with my comp, and the others. So I spent the day working in another city, named Osvaldo Cruz. One of the Assistants is Elder J. Johnson, a fellow Provonian. While there are many people here from Utah, I think only me and him are from Provo. He went to Timpview, so I never met him, but he does know Mat6t (Elder Karlsven now) so that was cool to reminisce a bit about good ól Provo.

We’re still struggling to find a good batch of investigators. The ones that we’re teaching are good, but unfortunately everybody is really struggling with church attendance. We call, offer to pass by their house with a ride, and still everybody ends up getting a visit from their grandma that they haven’t seen in the last 10 yrs. Or something like that. (That’s really the most common excuse we hear.)

We’re teaching a lady and her daughter, and the daughter already knows that the message is true. We asked her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, as always, and the next time that we came back she told us how powerfully she felt that it was true and received an answer. The only problem is that she always has something else to do Sunday morning instead of church, so we’re dealing with the very frustrating situation of a person that got an answer but is not motivated to follow it. Her mom is in a difficult situation as well, as she first has to divorce her ex-husband legally, and then marry the guy that she’s living with legally, a process that might end when Liam gets back from his mission.

Apartment hunting hasn’t gone too well. Every house that we’ve found is either really expensive or really far away, so I think we’re gonna stay put. It’s actually gotten quieter around our apartment, as the college downstairs appear to only be home during the day and gone at night, which works for us as we have exactly the opposite schedule.

Our apartment’s balcony-thingy has kind of a weird set-up, and if you’re not careful, you could fall off and end up in the neighbors area.

No luck finding a keyboard yet either, we’re still looking.

Welp, other than that we’re doing good here.

To be honest, the area’s leaving me a bit, I dunno, stressed as we try to help things move along, so I can see that I’ll be able to do a lot of growing in the area.

Sáll for now.

Till next week.

- Luke