Well this week is a very crazy week with lots to talk
about. As I`m sure you`re aware it has taken TWO day to be able to write you
this week which has never happened before. Well... here is the story:
It all started like any normal Pday we woke up, did our exercises,
then our studies. From there we were ready to go to centro to use the computers
in the library because they are the fastest and they are free. The only problem
was that we didn`t have permission from president. We decided that since we
don`t have a phone to even try to ask and he always gives us permission anyway
that it would be ok. So we started waiting for the collectivo and there were
some women talking about something that was happening with police, collectivos,
and robbing’s and that is why it was taking so long. Well that was the first
sign of the bad idea we had, but we ignored it. Then we went to the library to
write home and all the computers weren’t there they were locked away and we asked why
and the people said it was because of some robbing’s that have been happening
in centro. So we decide that we were going to go because that didn`t sound like
a good place to be. On the way out of centro while in the collectivo we saw a
mob of people and a couple police.
We then went to
the cyber in fontana but it was closed. We decided to go to the other elders
house to see if they were able to write home or not. They told us that there
was a message that went out that everyone has to stay in their pensh and not
leave to proselyte. They told us that the police were on strike so there was a
massive idea that every person was going to go out and rob the stores. So we
went back to the pensh and stayed the rest of the day there. The next morning
we got a knock on our door and the other elders had shown up and told us that
we weren`t to leave the pensh again because the people had ran sacked centro
and different stores. Also we were told that four were killed in the craziness.
That day we just stayed in the pensh and relaxed, slept, read, etc. Now it is
all over and the police are off of their strike. Now our week will start to
normalize. So that is the crazy story for the week.
Here is a
link from Fox news about the rioting. I am thankful that Cameron and all the
missionaries were watched over during these riots!
More than that the only thing I can think of are a couple
funny experiences. Like last pday after writing we were looking at some stores
and E`Clemons was looking at a spatula and was testing it`s flexibility and it
just shattered. He then threw the pieces
back on the shelf and walked away. It was pretty funny.
We had a lesson with and investigator that is golden and
the next day that we came back to invite her to church her Evangelico friend
was there. She was really annoying and didn`t want to accept anything we said
just fight about what we were trying to teach. We started pulling out all this
scripture mastery that we have been memorizing and showed her in the scriptures
that what we were teaching is true. Then we testified of the truthfulness of
it. Unfortunately I don`t think she will really pray about it but our
investigator was impressed that we were able to answer her questions in the
scriptures.
(PS can you guys look up what is the Evangelico church`s
doctrine? It would really help because there are a ton of them here and I want
to know exactly what they believe. That would translate to the ``gospel
church`` but I don`t think there is that in the US. Maybe they are the seventh
day evangelists... idk.)
I love you guys so much and can`t wait to hear from you
next week. I feel like the time was very cut this week to write.
