hey mom!
well i`m always glad to hear the good stuff. it`s nice to
have a little pick-me-up and see that everyone is doing well. that is really
interesting with the jazz, it sounds like it`s gonna be a completely different
team when i get back. oh well, i still have high hopes that they`ll be good. i
wonder what happened with cj, he was never great but i liked him. they`ll just
have to work for a few years and we`ll see where they end up. that`s an awesome
story with the car though! it`s too bad karissa never got to really drive it,
she`ll never quite understand having such a crappy car haha, but it was time
for it to go. it was a good car and served its purpose, but it had to go
sometime :) and i guess i can understand where karissa is coming from. i do
sometimes look back and think how much more fun i could have had my senior
year, but at the same time i realized that high school was kinda dumb and i
could have taken a lot more opportunities to study harder and stuff, so it`s a
tough situation. it makes sense, but i think there could probably be regrets
either way. maybe it`s just a pick your poison thing, although both are good
too haha, i don`t know. i guess as long as she`s happy that`s all you can do
right? that`s really intersting with chic-fil-a too. that`s good for the owner
though. down here we always have a problem with churches haha. like one church,
out of the millions, always pushes and says that church doesn`t matter and the
church is really just yourself, they say "la iglesia eres tu," and everyone
agrees, so it`s really hard to get people to see the importance of the church.
but oh well, ¿así es la misiòn no? :)
well this week was ok i guess. not really anything too
interesting happened. so there`s this one girl in the ward, and her and her
sister are the only members in their family, so she invited us over the other
day to have a little lesson with them. we`ve taught them twice now, and the
first lesson was just awesome. we talked about prophets and the importance of
them, and when we got to joseph smith the Spirit just came big time. usually
saying the first vision always brings the Spirit, and that time was no
different. i really hoped the mom and son felt it, but after the lesson we were
talking to one of the sisters and she said we did a really good job. so we
passed by last saturday just to invite them to church and see how they were
doing, and the son had been reading the BOM and liked it, the mom still hadn`t
but she`s still cool. so yesterday the brother came to church and seemed to
like it. so i want to have like a get together thing where all the youth meet
together and we go leave with them and see a less active or another youth that
didn`t come, and then go play soccer or something after, just cause i want him
to feel like he has friends. the sister told us that he likes the church and
wants to get baptized, he just doesn`t feel like going to church some days, so
i think having some friends would help with that.
on monday we were just contacting and walking around at like
8 30 at night, when this drunk dude tried to stop us in the street. i don`t
really like talking to drunk guys, cause just five minutes later they`re gonna
forget they even talked to us and nothing will ever happen. but this guy was
really determined. he stopped us, gave us the same routine, he really needs
help and wants us to do something, so i was like alright we`ll just come by
your house later cause we can`t talk when you`re drunk. so he was like ok come
to my house, and we walked with him to his house, and he just seemed really
happy we came with him. so we left him a pamphlet, set up another visit and
said we`d come back. so we went back, and we ended up having a super good
lesson with him. he really seemed genuine and wanted to change, so we left him
some homework to read and whatnot and said we`d come back again. i feel bad
though, cause someone called us to visit someone, and we said that`s fine but
we`ll have to leave soon cause we had a visit with that guy. so we went, had a
lesson, but after the lady gave us food. we couldn`t really tell her no, so we
just had to eat it. so we ended up missing that visit with him cause we were so
late. so i felt really bad, and we want by the next day and he seemed really
concerned as to why we didn`t pass by the night before. we tried to explain but
he still looked disappointed. i asked for his number, and he said he`d call us
if we could come by the next day, saturday, and talk some more. he didn`t call,
so i tried calling saturday night to invite him to church but he didn`t answer.
so he didn`t come to church yesterday, and i feel bad. i hope we didn`t lose
him.
we met another cool lady too. we were just contacting, and
we stopped at this one house and this lady came out. she was nice enough, and
so we chatted for a bit, but her whole demeanor changed when we started talking
about families and the plan of salvation. she ended up telling us afterward
that usually when missionaries come by she just says that she`s busy and just
come by another day, but when she saw us something just told her to let us in
and talk. we talked about the plan, and she just seemed super interested and
just loved it. ya know it took me leaving my family for me to realize how much
i love them and how grateful i am for the plan of salvation. i guess just
sharing the plan all the time has made me appreciate it more, and so i want
everyone else to have the same thing. there`s the one saying among
missionaries, that "missionaries leave their families for 2 years, so
others can be together forever," and i really like that :)
yesterday a couple was talking to me and asked if i could
have you guys send me some temple recommend covers. they wanted the ones that
like flip out and have pictures on front of like the temples or joseph smith or
something, if you know what i mean, and they wanted like a lot. i said i think
they were like 2 bucks, and so he said he wanted like 20 if they were that
cheap. i don`t know why, but he wanted them. so i don`t know if you could
investigate that a little and see how much they are. if it`s too much of a
hassle, then don`t worry, but yeah that would be great :)
i should tell you really quick about my chat with my comp.
so fridays are our planning days where we sit down and talk about everyone we
have and what we need to do to help them and whatnot, and they`re usually
pretty productive. it`s also a good chance to talk with your comp about
whatever is happening in the companionship too. so i finally just talked to
him. i asked him what he thinks we need to do better, how i can help him with
spanish, what i can do better, just everything so that we can see some success
this change. the thing is is his answers were just very vague and general. he
just said like nothing or i need to study or you`re doing good, but wouldn`t
really help me out. it`s hard cause he just has no desire to work or sacrifice
or anything, and he`s content with just the very bare minimums. i told him i
would just follow him one day, contacting and teaching and everything, and he
just told me if i follow him we`d just walk around one day, and we really did
for awhile. i don`t know how to instill a desire in him. it`s really hard.
but that`s about it. it was a fairly intersting week. we`ve
met a few cool people so i`ve got some high hopes for this week, and so we`ll
see how it goes. i`m glad everything is going well at home, as always, it makes
me happy. i hope everyone has a great week, and i`ll talk to you later!
much love,
elder paskett
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