Courtney's Week #77

Hola Familia!

Well, here I am in my new sector with my new companion. It is actually kind of a bummer to be training again. My new companion is great but she is also a little bit stubborn as well, but I guess I am as well so we will see how that goes. So my new sector isn´t really that far from where I was before, but it is extremely different. A couple weeks ago a lady was killed in my sector as she was just walking down the street. There are two gangs here that had a fight and she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another thing that I thought was really weird is that there is a neighborhood full of communists-how weird is that? There are a ton of drugs here as well. It has been a great experience of listening to the spirit. There have been a few times this week when I cancelled our plans or when we took the long route to get to our appointments just because the Spirit has warned us of danger.

With this new sector and everything there are a lot of weird theories and things that I have never really had a problem with. For example, 7 different people have had sincere doubts about extra-terrestriales or aliens. One guy who I talked with yesterday had a firm belief that their were masters who come from the moon and that they are coming to prepare the earth to become a second moon and that afterwards is when Christ is going to come to the earth. 

Another man that I talked with yesterday had another theory that was really weird. He was really concerned because of all the wickedness in the world. So we started telling him about Prophets and how God has always called Prophets. He interrupted me and said, "You know what we lack these days, a couple, like Adam and Eve. Why don´t we have a great couple like them these days. The world needs a couple." It was really funny, after that he started talking about square watermelons. 

So we don´t really have investigators for right now. We found a girl called Melissa the other day and I wasn´t really excited for her. She talked to missionaries one day when she was lost and they helped her find her way. They passed us the referral. She has a lot of real intent. She is 16 years old and pretty much living in a house full of sin, but she was really really excited to go to church. When we passed by yesterday to bring her to church she wasn´t home. We were a little discouraged then last night she found us on the street and explained that she couldn´t go to church because she got really sick, went to the doctor and found out she was pregnant. It was really sad she is only 16 and her boyfriend is not exactly a winner, but hopefully the gospel can help her out a little bit. 

Hey, so something super awesome this week I found a random guy on the street wearing a Utah State Aggie game day shirt, how weird is that? It made my whole week. I went up and asked him if I could take a picture with him. He was absolutely tickled, but the sad news is that I forgot my adapter today, so you are going to have to wait until next week to see it. 

I got my travel plans, I told the office that they needed to let you guys know what was going on, so they should have sent you an email or something, but just in case I will forward them to you. 

Much love, 

Hermana Evans