Well I feel like there isn`t much to say but I guess there
were a couple of stories I forgot to tell yesterday.
Yesterday we were walking to the food appointment when we
see a man of about 40 bear hugging a girl of about 18 from behind. She had
something in her hand which she threw across the street at which point the man
let her go and went to go pick up the phone which she threw. The phone landed
about 5 feet from us and the girl was crying hysterically...she ran over to us,
grabbed on the arm of my companion and started speaking to us in English. We
were so shocked we didn`t really know what to do (when was the last time a girl
sobbed on my companion`s arm?) So I astutely asked "Are you ok?" At
which point she started speaking in English telling us that he had hit her and
taken the phone (this whole time she is just clinging to the arm of Elder
ReidReynoso) and she just kept asking us for help and then after 2 or 3 minutes
of asking for help and sobbing she just said "Pues, ya me voy a mi
casa..." (Well, I'm going home) and
just left. I just about died of laughter from the look of shock and
helplessness on my companion`s face when she latched on. I don`t really know if
she was lying or what the deal was...but I guess we`ll never know.
The other funny story of the week was that we were
contacting in our area when we contacted an older lady. We asked if we could
accompany her to her house to share a message of Jesus Christ and she just said
"well, I don`t think you actually want to go to my house but let`s
go...." I thought that was kind of weird so I started to ask her if she
had a mean dog or a mean husband or something of the sort and she just kept
saying no, but you don`t want to come to my house. I kind of started getting
the feeling that she was taking us to her church...I was right. She took us to
the Catholic Church "El Sagrado Crozòn de Jesucristo." I tried
explaining to her that we couldn`t go in because we had a rule that said that
we can`t preach in the churches of other churches. But she wouldn`t take no for
an answer...at this point there were a lot of people staring at us wondering
why we were there and they just kept saying "no pasa nada...no pasa
nada." (Nothing happens…nothing happens) I said no...but she just grabbed
my arm and dragged me in and I didn`t really want to make a scene so I just
thought "what the heck" and in we went. She took us above the church
to a little chapel where the altar to Cristo Rey was set up. You can look those
up on the internet without fear..not the same as Tepito...they are Saints that
they pray to. Basically they are idols. This one was a four poster bed type
thing with gold ribbons and places to kneel in front. She started telling us
that we were very misled and that we should come back to the only true
church...the catholic one. She asked us why we didn`t come visit Dios (she was
referring to the altar) and we briefly tried to explain authority and how to
recognize the true church...but upon seeing that she wouldn´t listen and seeing
that she tried to force Elder ReidReynoso to kneel on the altar we took our
leave. Everyone just kind of smiled at us in a "I don`t know what you are
doing here but you`re idiots" kind of way on our way out. Just another
adventure of contacting in Mexico...you never really know what is going to
happen.
Today we went to play soccer on a Fut-7 field with a bunch
of 14 -15 year old jovenes. (They were already there and wanted to play against
the gringos). We whooped them. It was kind of funny to see their frustration on
being beat by a bunch of gringos at their own game. That reminds of another funny
story that happened this week. We were knocking doors when we passed by a bunch
of little kids. They all stopped talking and stared at us like they usually
do...but then about 5 minutes later a little boy with his older sister came up
to us (The little boy obviously had a question for us but was to embarrased to
ask us) and asked us "¿Ustedes son gringos?" (you are the gringos?) and we answered yes.
They jus tsaid ok, and they left. It was funny and gave us a good laugh.
Well it was great to see and hear all of you yesterday. I
guess that`s the last time I will get to skype home from Mexico so I hope ya`ll
enjoyed it. Melissa sounds so much like Darci I thought it was Darci that was
speaking at first, Cameron, I hope you`re studying PME because you`ll need it
out here. I couldn`t tell if you and Kolby were wearing my clothes or not but I
am going to need those in a couple months so don`t break anything. It was good
to see Darci and Joe still happy and together like it should be. Tell Grandma I
will come help her in her garden when I get home.
I love you all so much and give Chika a belly rub for me.
Love,
Elder Nelson
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