Happy Birthday Christopher! I hope you went to tucano's...thats what I would have done if it was my birthday. Laser eye surgery sounds like a pretty good present. I realized last week that I had left my contacts in for like 6 or 7 weeks, so I took them out and went a day or two without contacts. Not having to hassle with them would be pretty nice.
This week has actually been pretty tough. Two of our really good investigators told us they don't want us to visit them anymore. They were perfect investigators and were pretty sure the anti-mormons must have given them a couple visits. They definitely would have been baptized. That was tough. Then our other few investigators that were good also dropped us. We also found out a lot of the recent converts are having problems. Its pretty tough to know what to do sometimes. But we just keep working and things fall into place and we find more people. We had 3 investigators come to church with us yesterday, that was awesome. One of them is named Erica. She's the one who pulled up to us in her car on Halloween to give us a bag of candy and told us she loves latter day saints. She decided she wants to change her life for the better and she is seeking for the truth. We've been having really good visits with her and she had a really good experience at church. I'm excited to see how she progresses.
Another one is named Kim and she's a recent convert's daughter. She just moved back in with him and she's kind of in the same boat as Erica. She wants to change for the better. Her dad's name is Abraham and he is probably the most amazing recent convert I've ever seen. He shares the gospel with everyone and he absolutely loves the scriptures and the church. He was pentecostal before and his dad was a big time preacher in LA, so it was a huge change for him to join the church. He got pretty much disowned by his family. His daughter was raised pentecostal too and apparently they bring in people to talk specifically about Mormons and about all this anti stuff, so we're helping her resolve doubts.
The last one is named Angie, she is a recent convert's girlfriend. The problem is that they're living together. The recent convert, named Max, knows how important the church is and he took her to church with him. He's been talking to her about it and she likes it all so far. We're just being careful that she's not just trying to be baptized so she can be with Max. Max is kind of a weird guy though...he talks about how he saw angels before or something. Its some long story about how he was watching the extended versions of all the lord of the rings movies in a row and he started having visions or something. So those are the 3 that we had come to church. We're also teaching Germán, a Hispanic guy. He's been getting taught for a while and we had him read 2 Nephi 31 and talked about baptism. We invited him to pray to find out whether he needs to be baptized. He was like, the decision to be baptized isn't the hard part, enduring to the end is. He knows he needs to be baptized but he wants to keep reading the Book of Mormon and praying to find out if its true. He said he's about 70% sure its true right now. He used to be a missionary for his church in Guatemala so he's making a pretty big step to convert too. He's also living with his girlfriend, but I think he'll be willing to separate once he knows for sure the Book of Mormon is true.
One time during this week we had two reaaaally old men threaten me and Elder Pedersen. We were riding down the street and saw two old men on the street corner slowly making their way to the car, so we said hi to them. One of them turned slowly to us and started shaking his finger at us and said "We're going to beat the poop out of you" (censored of course). It was so random and it made us both laugh. I said, "Uh oh, we better get out of here!" It was almost as if a 6 year old boy was threatening us. Afterwards Elder Pedersen said he should have furiously thrown down his bike and said, "BRING IT OLD MAN!" That would have been pretty funny.
We also tried to contact this one referral, then some super old lady answered the door. I told her we were missionaries and we were here to give her the book she ordered. She said she couldn't hear so I said it louder. She said again shes hard of hearing and stepped closer, so then I just yelled it out. She could finally hear me but it was pretty hard to have a conversation when I was literally yelling at the lady. It was also hard not to laugh because it was so unnatural to be standing there yelling at some old lady. We could barely keep a straight face until she shut the door and we laughed for a good 10 minutes after that. I was kind of glad she didn't want us to teach her because I would have had a sore throat by the end of every lesson.
I got the package with the camera cord, pictures, stamps, ect. Thanks a lot. Yes that is my camera cord and I'm going to try to put all the pictures on it today. The Brown's have a laptop that I can use to put captions on the pictures. Hopefully it'll work the same way on the computers at home. The laptop has windows vista so if you look at the pictures on Mom's computer with the same program then it should work fine, I'm sure you can figure it out.
Alright I've got to go now before they try to kick me off the computers. They only guarantee 30 min on the computers here. We e-mail at a library in Texas City because the one in Galveston is flooded. I love hearing about everyone every week. I'll talk to everyone next week!!
Love,
Chase
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