Cambios (July 13,2010)

heyyy family,
im writing late becaUSE todsay is the last p-day of the cambio and we have p-day the second half of the day! we have cambios today but lucky for us (my comp and i) there arent cambios! this is a happy thing because we are going to get to see our invest. batized hurayy! i was very surprised because i was sure they were going to change me up, that i would go to an area that needs alot of help, contact like crazy and find families and then change and not see them get baptized. that has been the normal cycle here in CBM. id even been studying scriptures about how its not that important who gets to baptize and that kind of thing but luckily the Lord wants to give me that chance to baptize in these 6 weeks that are coming up. so this past week the troubles came for our invest. Alejandro is having a hard time getting work and his family has been pretty sick with some kind of flu and all of this prevented him from coming to church again sunday. Well we passed by and invited him to repent and not repeat and then gave him some hope and he really felt sorry and he is ready for church this weekend come hell or high water (and that high water part is really possible thanks to the rain here). yesterday there was a huge rainstorm for two hours that flooded alot of houses including ours! but not really flooded just kind of formed a river that goes from the back door to the front door and then to the street, it doesnt cause any damage and kinda cleaned a little bit. also as we were waiting the storm out in the house of the members who gave us lunch the hermana abuelita didnt like lighting and everytime it thundered or did lighting she would yell and duck, one lighting bolt struck a eletricity transformer a block away from the house which made it blow up and was really loud.....she almost tackled my comp from being so scared haha. ROBINSON is chugging along and reads a ton of the BoM but we ran into a slight problem with his marriage. problem one his birth registro doesnt exist anymore and that means he has to make a new one which takes time its just really odd that he legally doesnt exsist, thats is the normal problem. the ABnormal problem is that the reason his wife doesnt want to hear us and is not in the house alot is due to her job.... which is..... being a WITCH. yes his wife reads crystal balls and uses cards to tell the future and communicates with spirits all that stuff, on a good day she gets to take demons out of people by using other demons which has its own process that i can fill you in on later rather frighting. there actually is alot of this kind of stupidness here in the coast but this is a first time my invest. is living with a witch. well we arent really sure what is going to happen but i should be interesting but dont worry i wont be looking into her eyes for longer than 5 seconds.
ohh we had our conference with Pte. Gaviria. it was kinda funny the poor man got there really late with his family (they had been traveling alot and looked tired) he has 4 kids from 18 to 4 years. He and his wife kinda presented themselves and then gave us advice but the advice part was funny because they said things like ¨use your cell phones to call the LD¨ (we dont have cell phones) ¨be careful going from the AC into the heat¨(AC doesnt exist) ¨i really admire you all for using suit coats while preaching¨(we NEVER use suit coats for the heat and because it would make us MORE of a target). basically they are new and its fun but im sure they are going to be super great presidents and the coast is going to keep bringing many converts to Christ. thanks lars for the letter im sure scout camp was a blast! Good luck Uncle Rob with that kidney sounds like an interesting way to use your vacation time from work.
keep praying for the invest and they have the hope and faith to keep progressing to making covenats
love ya all
Elder Larson