so this week was good, a little interesting though.
so i guess I’ll just start out by saying that dogs and
missionaries are just mortal enemies... or good friends, lucky for us that so
far all the big dogs seem to be our friends. the small dogs... not so much.
so in our house we live in this super tiny gated community,
and to get to it we always pass by this little tiny dog in front of his house.
he really can’t do anything to us but if he was bigger he would totally
dismember us, but as the situation is he just kinda contents himself with
following barking like a madman. we have tried to scare it away by pretending to charge it and
stuff, but it just gets madder.
so i think tuesday we walk past the dog, and we were
carrying our umbrellas, because the rain hits in the summer here, and as we
were about to get to this house, elder p. asks me, "wanna see
something funny?" "...yes." so as we pass elder p. just
points his umbrella at it and opens it. let’s just say that it’s a good thing
that dogs don’t wear pants, because he would have had to change them. the best
way he can describe his reaction is "BARK BARK BARK DIE DIE DIE BARK BARK
BAR- OH MY GOSH SPACE WEAPONS!" but yeah, after a couple space weapon
attacks (only when he barks) he doesn’t mess with us anymore. he just stares at
us with hate, or he takes a lap around the block to avoid us, but anyways, I’m
pretty sure that I’m qualified as a dog trainer now.
as district leader i had my plate full this week, with planning the district meeting
tuesday, and then intercambios thursday, and then a baptismal interview friday.
but all went well, and i have a good district. i actually like being a leader,
not really because i want extra responsibilities and stuff like that nor
ordering people around, but because it seems that you receive more revelation
when it is to help other people, fun stuff.
but we had some interesting lessons this week too. The one
that tops the rest was with a random contact that we did. we passed by and he wasn’t
there, but his mom was, so we started teaching her, with her husband kinda
listening in, when all of the sudden he tells us, "i'm gunna leave, i have
a meeting with my pastor, but i just want to tell you that Mormon isn’t a
prophet, he’s not in the bible, i want you to find him in the bible, actually
you can’t, cause he isn’t there." it seemed obvious that he didn’t really
want an answer, so we just kinda let him rant for a minute, leave, and then we
came back to our lesson. but then, just
as we are finishing up, he comes back in, but with his pastor. at first we were
thinking "oh no" but we finished the lesson, turned to them and asked
what question he had. the pastor was actually great, he just asked what we did
as missionaries, so we explained, then the guy brought up his Mormon question
again, and we just explained really calmly about the book of mormon, bearing
our testimonies the whole way through. the pastor accepted our answer, and so
then the guy did too. the pastor actually accepted a book of mormon and said he
would like to hear ore of or message.
i guess through all this, and other stuff this week, I kinda learned to trust in God a bit more. we don’t
have the whole perspective, and there are many things that we could not work
out for ourselves, but if we just trust that he is in control and do our part,
that we end up way better than we would on our own.
anyways that’s it for this week. take care all. love you
guys, be good.
elder gandola
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