Hey, so this week was an adventure. One of the members in our ward repairs washing machines and then resells them. My companion has a lot of money saved up because she´s pretty much only eaten cereal and yogurt for all of her mission, so we asked about how much a washing machine would cost, he told us nothing and that he would just bring us one. So the next day he brought us a washing machine in the night. He tested it really fast to make sure that everything was working and then left. Well, we were so excited to use our new washing machine that we put a load in right away, and then we went to bed. Well, when we woke up the next morning there was about an inch of water on the floor in our bedroom, our study room, the kitchen, my closet, and throughout the hallway. The washing machine broke halfway through its laundry cycle and pushed all the water out the bottom and so we had water everywhere! The worst part is that we had things on the floor that got wet, the most tragic was my companion´s journal of all of her mission--it was completely soaked. Also, my backpack was on the floor with all of my proselyting stuff in it: my scriptures, an extra Book of Mormon, 3 hymnbooks, pamphlets, a notebook, and other random stuff. Well, a few weeks ago I made a homemade cover for my scriptures out of a cereal box and then I put scotch tape all around it. And so, even though the water soaked up through all of the other books that I had in my book bag, my scriptures were completely dry!! A miracle! Anyways, so we spent the whole morning cleaning up all the water and then my companion has used most of our time in the night time to blow dry and iron the pages of her journal.
Another thing that happened this week, my companion and I went for an appointment with a couple of our investigators who live really far. So we decided to take the bus out there instead of riding our bikes. So after we left, we had to walk on the side of the freeway until we could catch the bus. So we were walking along when a semi passed us going super fast, right after he passed us he slammed on the brakes and started fish tailing all over the road and the shoulder too. Right in front of us!! One minute later and we would have gotten hit by this semi! Crazy, right?
Well, other than this not really a whole lot happened this week. We´ve decided to change our focus, because we´ve decided that were using too much time traveling back and forth between the different parts of our sector. So we´ve decided to focus mainly on the area here close to the church because it is much easier to help people progress when they can get to the church easily. But for right now, we are kind of without really cool investigators.
Oh, so I take that back. We have this really cool couple Rosa y Esau. They have like 55 years or something like that, but they have been living together for like 10 years. The Elders that were here in this sector before found them last March, and they progressed really fast, Esau read the whole Book of Mormon and right now is reading in for the second time and is in the end of Alma. Rosa also is in the end of Alma in her reading. But because they lived together they couldn´t be baptized, and the big complication is that Esau is married to another lady and when he tried to contact her so that they could get divorced and then get married to Rosa the lady never responded. So here is the super cool part, right now they are on their way to Peru to find his old wife and plead for the signature of divorce. They will return next month because while they are up there they are going to visit family and stuff. But it was super cool, yesterday in the church Esau asked for a blessing of comfort from one of the members in the ward. They are super anxious about everything, but they really want to get baptized. I am so excited for them!! A baptismal wedding! How great!!
Well, I can´t really think of much else that happened this week, but I love you all! Have a great week!
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