"We do not strive for conversion to the Church, but to
Christ and His gospel."
- Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Last night I dreamed that E Colquicocha, our ZL from Peru ,
was translating for us in the baptismal service of one of our investigators
because the hermano that was going to be baptized spoke in Russian. That was
wild.
Also, my head hurt the entire day. But we had a good day,
started fasting, but now we can drink water! So it was a lot easier, to be
honest. You feel a little more alive and a little less dead, so I was happy.
And we had Coordinacion with Jose, and a visit, and then we
went looking for some people from the records we have. And it turns out (after
contacting for an hour) that the lady had died a month ago from diabetes. Yup.
I love how some elderes have the records with absolutely no good information,
full names, ages, dates of anything, a small map of where on earth they live,
phone number, someone who knows them, or how they received the teaching and
follow-up visits. (sigh) Samuel, when
you serve, PLEASE fill in the correct information so that when somebody opens
your area after you they don't get lost. Anyways.
So we kept looking for some more people and had little
success, and then we ran by a member to have them show us where their reference
lived (because their directions weren't so great, either) and so then we
visited with them for a bit. And then it got all thunder-y and lightening-y
again around 8:00 pm, so we started heading back home. And then once we were inside,
it rained. So that was a nice change!
Today we also explained to a lady why it was that Mary the
mother of Jesus wasn't a virgin anymore when she had kids. That was an
interesting conversation. We get some really random questions sometimes. We were
teaching about the Restoration, and the second we said that Jesus Christ was
here on the earth to teach us His gospel, she asked if Mary was still a virgin
to this day. But we resolved her concern and everything's alright now, we'll
visit her again on Tuesday. Fun lady, I like her.
I think one of the hardest things teaching here is that
you'll teach about the Restoration, explain that Christ's true church is here
on the earth again to bless us, they nod their heads and say a whole bunch of
beautiful things, you think they understand, and then when you invite them to
come on Sunday and ask if they'll attend, they say no, they have to go to their
other church. Grr. The message obviously didn't get through very well. Or that
they'll come to our church any one of these days, just not this Sunday for
whatever reason. But we keep trying. Lucia got the joke, so we're very happy
about that. It just makes me laugh a little about the logic here.
Today we walked 4.079 miles, burned 232.6 calories, and took
8,616 steps. According to my calculations, I've walked over a thousand miles
since I got my sandals, so I can completely relate to the guy that sings the
song about having walked 500 miles and that he would walk 500 more just to be
the man who'd walk a thousand miles to fall down at your door. Or something like that. It's been a while since hearing the song. I feel accomplished!
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