Monday May 21, 2012

 

Hola familia!!!!!!
 
how was your week!?!?!?!?! mine was a whole lot better. we were able to
find some amazing people and families this week who seem very promising. we
were also able to help our bishop with a few visits to less active members
and as we gave him our reports i saw the first sign of light in his eyes he
thanked us for our work and i thought the words thank you would burn his
mouth as they came out but he said them and as he said them he gave us
another list of people to visit. . . . . well atleast he trusts us to do
his visits. but often times i find myself asking if it is trust or laziness
that drives him. i know that the bishop is a man called of god, and i
souldnt speak bad of him but sometimes if just bugs me how different the
church is here than in the united states. . . . for example yesterday we
had a visiter come but it wasnt the stake president of patriarch. it wasnt
a general authority or even a area authority it was a dog. yes a dog found
his way into the chaple and i watched in awwww as no one did anything. of
all the rooms it could have gone into it went in to the chaple and as i
pointed it out to the bishop he basically blew me off. and before i said
something i would have regreted i left. well the story doesnt end there.
the classes end and me and my companion stay to clean up. . . . because the
members dont know how to clean up after themselves. and we found a little
gift that the dog left us. but it wasnt little it was huge. and the best
part was it was right in front of the bishops chair. i joked with my
companion on leaving it for the bishop to clean up but we both knew it
would be wrong so we cleaned it and the story ends here.
 
i am sorry i am so negative this week but i just need to get it all off my
chest. we have been working with one lady named Olga i think i have
mentioned her before but she has still to accept a baptismal date. we went
to the temple on tuesday and i put her name on the list but keep her in
your prayers this week and keep praying for our new investigators, pray
that soon they will be progressing toward a date too.
 
i love you all fam and it is off to futbol. but always remember rain or
shine hot or cold bishop or no bishop i am working as hard as i can
 
Elder Landon R. Welch