8-24-09

Wow it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun at the fair. did the boys earn a lot of money? make sure Kaden doesn't spend it all in one place.

Well this week we found one house that is perfect and its in a really great area, and then the zone leaders came and said it was too expensive, but we cant find anything else and Hna Mendoza said she wants us in a new house next month, which is in a week and a half, so we are going to talk directly with her and she what she says. We havn't had any problems with anything in this area, and I'm not worried. All of the gangsters think I am really cool. Its kinda funny. I am having a lot of fun here in this area. But we have the problem of people just cant think here, they cant put 2 and 2 together. We teach a little bit and then ask a question to verify and they just don't understand. I am a lot more grateful for the education that I have. Its been hard to find people to teach but in time the success will come. Also we are having a lot of problems with the ward. Nobody wants to do anything and we are losing people really fast. We talked with the ward mission leader last night and came up with this big plan for people to visit people. He has a lot of energy and he says he going to enforce this plan like crazy, and he will. So hopefully we will change the attitudes of the people.

So Kevin and Marisol are at the house? If yes here is a quick message for marisol.
Hola que dices mi tia? que tal washington? te gustas or que? aqui en mexico es bueno me gusta mucho pero la gente es deficil. pero no se, la obra missional esta pregresando ahorrita y tengo mucho animo para las personnas, pero son bastantes chollos y son bien ratos cada dia, es ey moreno, o que tal way. lol. son chiestoso, pero es triste por que ellos no hacen nada menos las druggas y roben la tren. pero la evangelio de jesucristo es las respuesta. gracias
Hasta luego

SO this week I had my first crazy experience. We went for one of our investigators and there was a couple gangsters in front of his house, and then one started asking us questions about the bible, like who's Aaron, why was Moses so important. He knew a lot. and then he asked us if he were to kill somebody in self defensive who God forgive him (he was pretty drunk) and he told him he would, if he repented, and well he didn't really believe us, and then he told us he had killed somebody, and he feels horrible about it, and he wants to change is life, but he is scared because of the other gangs, and then he started crying (he is like 260 lbs with lots of tattoos) and he told us he didn't want to kill anybody again. And we told him to read the book of Mormon and it would help him change his life. and then he asked us if we were going to come back next week and we said we would. and he told us if we didn't he was going to beat us up. It was pretty crazy, but its part of being in Mexico I guess.
Well have fun, I love you all, hopefully we can find another house this week.

Elder Mayberry