Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:18 AM

hey mom,

it sounds like you guys did have a good week. by the way i wanted to thank you for sending the recipes and the music. grandmas package just got here too. i havent gone to get it yet but im excited! i am yet to take a picture of me in my new sweats but when i do i will send it too you for sure.  the people in the matatu are all missionaries. all the people in the picture and least. hah 

 

right now, i am reading jesus the christ. the book is huge. but it has a ton of info in it so i like it a lot. im yet to finish the book that bro bulloch had me get. but its pretty good. its so weird for me to talk about reading cause at home...........i hated reading with a passion but now i do it all the time. hopefully it doesnt become too big of a habit haha.

well our week wasnt too exciting but it ended off way good! this week we taught one of our investigators named alfonce (ya i know weird name huh) well we know that he is a smoker and most likely a drinker so we taught him about the word of wisdom. i was kinda nervous because the last time i taught someone the word of wisdom who was a smoker and drinker, he stopped coming to church and stuff. but he accepted and was good about it.

 

another thing that happened was we were teaching my favorite investigator named david. hes an old guy but he is very bright and thats hard to find here ha. but we asked him to read and pray about the book of mormon and ask if its true. and he was like," ya know you guys are the ones that put doubt in my mind about it. when i read it i accept that it is true." it was way kool.

 

on sunday we had a weird experience. so one of our investigators has a quad so we asked her where she got it and stuff . she told us that she got it from a friend in america and that she was coming here some time. so this week her friend came and we went to meet her because i figured that she was lds. when we get there we find out that............. she is definitely not lds. she asked what church we are from and i said the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. and she smiled and said oh thats nice and then i said other wise known as mormons. and the smile instantly turned off... into total surprise. it was kinda funny, and then she started talking about god and church and stuff. it was crazy. she sounded smart when she wasnt talking about religion but when she did, she sounded like a complete retard. it opened my eyes to how dumb even americans are about church and stuff.

now the kool part. so yesterday we had a zone conference with elder cook. he talked about how we can become better missionaries and how we can establish the church here. it was really kool. and it wasnt just us listening to him but we shared and stuff and we discussed things. now the best part was when he finished and everyone was hanging out and stuff. i went and talked to him and thanked him. and he asked me how long have you been out? i told him almost 6 months. he was so happy. he said that i was a very good missionary. i thought it was kool. and just like elder hays, he gave me an assignment to read numbers 13 and 14 and he told me that i was like caleb. i thought it was kool to hear from a general authority (GA) also when he shook my hand he told me that he could feel the strength i had. at first i thought that he was just talking about how strong i was but i guess he meant my spirit. so it was an awesome experience.

but that was my week. i hope you guys have an awesome week and dont forget to read or CTR (choose to read) love ya guys

elder maxwell