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Monday, July 27, 2009

a super week and a HILARIOUS SUNDAY

so i´ll start with the good week. We had zone conference this week so we all got our testimonies and ambitions kicked up a notch which was great. Our super investigator passed his special interview with the president so he´s getting baptized this week. Also our super investigador (his name is Ender Pereyra) pulled a super obedient this week. I was eating lunch saturday (rice, and cow stomach) and wondering what miracle i was going to get to see today. Well it didnt snow like i was hoping the miracle would be so i kept looking. We passed by a members house a few hours later to use their bathroom (yours truly has been digesting his food really fast if you know what i mean) and Ender was there because he is good friends with the member, references are great by the way. Well after i used the bathroom and flushed it down with a bucket of water we asked Ender how he was going with his new job. He had told us he got a job finally BUT like always our investigadors get jobs that makes them work on Sundays in the mornings from 9 to 12, a problem. Well he told us he didnt have a job which made us worried because he told us he had one. When we asked him why he told us because he didnt acept the job because if he worked on sundays he couldnt get baptized and then he couldnt go to the temple in one year..... i almost had to use the bathroom again i was so happy. Needless to say i was pretty pleased with the miracle and the faith God gave this humble child of
His.
Hiliarious Sunday time. Well this sunday el loco del barrio went to church. A harmless crazy guy who always talks to us in the street decided he would actually listen to our invitation that we give to everyone and walked in to church just after sacrament meeting. Well the members were pretty surprised and so was i. He dresses normal but he has his short sleeves rolled up always and he told me why sunday. Well after gospel principles he talked to me and my comp for 15 mins and told us about how he is crazy and how he goes to the catholic church always to talk to the bishop there but he doesnt want to talk to him. He told us he just wants to learn how to wrtie poetry and sing and dance like John Travolta in Grease, especialy John Travolta because when he was waiting to talk to the Catholic Bishop one of the nuns told him he looks like John Travolta and THAT is why he rolls up his short sleeves. Well he asked what we could do to help him talk to the catholic bishop and he was really sad when i told him i didnt know him personally BUT to cheer him up me and Elder Jaliri wrote a letter of recomendation to the Good Bishop that he could show him the next time he goes. Dont worry we didnt sign our names or write the churchs name just that he is a child of God and needs help (i was tempted to write ¨dear holy bishop, could you please teach our friend to write poetry and sing and dance like John Travolta, we are busy baptizing all the people who have found the truth.¨ but i didnt). he was happy with the note and went right away to the catherdaral down town. So funny. But as we were chuckling i realized what we really wrote was true,that he is a child of God and needs help so i called him back real quick and taught him how to pray and then let him go bother the his Holiness of SAnta marta. SO many adventures as a missionary and i love it.
Thanks for you love and prayers
Elder Larson

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