Week Ten

Well this was an interesting week with a lot of highs and lows. In a lot of ways it reminds me of hunting. First the crazy. Last week we were in the street and we talked to a lady. She appeared to be interested but she said her dad who lives with her doesn't like religion. Her son gave us the house number and we stopped by this week twice the first time she said that she was busy. We came back and saw what she meant about her father being anti-religion. We knocked on the door and her son came and said I'll go get my mom. Her dad looked at us and said "(word neither one of us knew) Evangelist. Get off my doorstep before I kill you" and slammed the door in our faces. We walked away and laughed.

Our other cool experience this week was with an investigator we found my first day out. We found him when Elder Glenn said ok the next house we stop at will be one that you feel like will be good. A house on the road we were on stood out and I said we should knock. We did and German came out and he let us teach him. We kind of knew that he was feeling the spirit but we only learned how strong when this week we asked him to pray and after he said that during our lessons he had felt a warm heat on his head and then it flooded his entire body.

Our craziest experience was with Gustavo. Gustavo was found during a Tormenta Blanca (or white storm) which is when an entire zone goes to an area that isn't doing as well. Tormenta Blanca happened before I entered the CCM and the Assistants found Him. He was extremely interested and they put him on Fetcha (they set a baptism date for him). They gave Elder Glenn and his old companion Elder Dan his information and they could never find him. They told the assistants that they were going to stop looking for him because he was never there. We found him on Thursday this week and we learned how much power Satan has on our investigators. He was mugged and he lost the card and his phone both had our phone number on it. When we came into his house he told us this great huge story apologizing the entire time about missing his baptism and so we reset it.

Now for one of the things that kind of sucked this week. Sunday we had 1 investigator attend church and we were expecting about 10. Agency is honestly one of the hardest principles in la obra misional. Not to say we aren't happy to have gotten the one but they have a different problem. We are teaching a lot of unmarried couples and one of them agreed to get married this week. We are extremely happy about that. I am learning Spanish fast and I know it is because of El Don de Lenguas. 

Love Elder Cahoon