This week was a fantastic one full of ups and downs, heat and rain, miracles and rejections haha. There's no better week than that...dead serious too. We saw so many miracles. Less active people whom we've been trying to get to church finally came, we've found new investigators that have so much potential, and just everything. One of those miracles was this man named Fari. He's Dominican and he's a member of 14 years. He went inactive about 10 years ago, I think, because he found work. We ran into him doing a contact one day a while back and he said we could visit. We didn't know he was a member already until he told us! But we've been working with him to get him to come back to church and with his family as well. His wife isn't a member but is very supportive of us and likes our visits. So we're hoping to work with her as well. But yesterday they both came to church! We didn't expect them at all because we hadn't been able to visit them this past week. But we came out of our meeting and we saw them and it just made me so happy! I sat next to them the whole time to help them feel a little more comfortable. Another little miracle was with this man named Carlos. He's Catalan and one day he just walked by the chapel while we were having a ward cleaning activity and just stopped and asked what we were. So we pulled him into a classroom and talked with him for a bit and the visit went really well. That was about a month ago. Now we see him all over the place and one day he looked completely different. He had cut his long hair, he looked healthier, and he said he needs to turn his life around. After that visit he said he knew he had to change. We asked if we could meet again and he said of course and luckily he lives right down the street of the church, haha. We had a good visit and the Bishop came with us and we gave him a Book of Mormon. He said that he wanted to read it a lot and said that he'd read this next week and we could talk again this coming week. It was incredible to see the hand of the Lord touching his heart and preparing him to receive this message. We'll keep meeting with him and see how he does :).
But how about some other things....well. This past week we had quite the awkward situation on the bus, haha. We went up to see the mall for Preparation Day last week just to see what's up there and we went shopping for our groceries there too since they have this huge shopping store kinda like a Walmart or something, haha. But while we were there, this fight broke out a few lines down. This Spaniard guy grabbed this other guy by the collar of the shirt and was shouting at him and then this Muslim lady took something and smacked the guy on the head and everything shattered on the ground and they were all screaming and man what a scene they made, haha. Everyone in the store was watching and security came running and had to literally carry/drag the ladies to a private room to talk with them. What a day to choose to go to the mall right? Well, unfortunately that's not all, hahaha. We took the bus down to our piso and well, we got on the bus and this creepy little guy was sitting up front and as we walked by he touched us and said hi. We kept walking and set our stuff down and by accident, Elder Carroll set his stuff down on a lady's bag and she tried to pull it out and she broke it. She got all mad at him and was saying stuff that I won't repeat. Luckily, Elder Carroll didn't understand her, haha. These three girls of about 25 were sitting across the way and watching and I guess they didn't think we spoke Spanish because I was talking to my companion in English. And so one girl said to a friend, "What are they?" And then another said, "I think they're Jehovah's Witnesses." And then I just turned to them and said in perfect Spanish, "Nope we're not." They all just looked at each other and said, "Oh shoot they speak Spanish." Hahaha It was so funny. Gotta love that. Well, remember that creeper? He decided to come and stand by me at one point on the bus and I just tried to ignore him. It sorta didn't work too well because he tapped my arm and said hello. To be polite I said hi as well and he said, "You know, people like you get along really well with me." And man that was just creepy. The way he said it, his smile, everything lol. He proceeded to shake my hand, rub my stomach for a bit and then hug me around the waist a few times. It was sooooo awkward. Why is it that missionaries attract the weirdest things and people? haha. I was just praying to get off the bus ASAP and luckily we did. But man, talk about a crazy Preparation Day! Hopefully today isn't like that....But we'll see, haha.
I love you all and think about you often. Have fun as school starts up again and I wish you all the best of luck. Luckily, I don't have to do all that for another year :) haha but it will eventually come. Oh well.
