its true yesterday i had cold during the sacrament meeting. Well it started out that going to get our investigators it started to rain a TON!! well luckliy we had our umbrellas but unluckily they are very cheap umbrellas and they turned inside out and the rain was coming on more of a diagonal than straight down so they didnt really help alot. Never the less we kept on wading various flooded streets until we found ourselves challeneged by a very FAST flooded 2 meter ditch. When i say fast it was fast and it also was up on the hill so it also had a waterfall effect going on and i remind you that this isnt pretty rain water after it hits the street here it turns all kinds of brown and when the flow passes where there is a sewer top it puts an even more interesting shade of brown (when we got back to the house i disenfected my feet its necesarry). well lucky for us someone had put 2 old concrete telephone poles across the stream and we carefully made our way across got to the familes house... it was exciting! Well lucky for us it rained from 730 to 830 and then stopped so basically it rained enough to drench us but still give our invest, time to go to church which they did. the families returned for the second time and a new family joined us la familia Manjares, they are a family of 5 and the parents are MARRIED and the husband (alejandro) is way awesome and ya has a testimony and they dont live too far from the church.... pray for them! well simply the reason i was cold was when we got to church we were completly soaked and then we sat in air condiciong for an hour and i really was cold, i throughly enjoyed it. other fun stuff that happened this weekend is that we had our last zone conference and my last interview with Pte. Roundy. They (the Roundys) gave us all the advice they could think of and it was really special to hear their testimonies. the last interview with Pte. Roundy was a little strange being that he is going home before me, but he told me that i had made a great impact on the mission and that he was especially grateful to me for training well so many elders . this week Elder Torres of the seventy is coming to teach us some fun things so that will be exciting. my comp and i are getting along well, he knows quite a bit of english so he is teaching me when we are in the apartment. its silly because randomly he will say some weird phrase in english and his voice in english is really funny. also here in the mission they have given the missionaries a booklet to learn english and the examples of conversations are between elders and members things like... hello bishop how is the retention going? great elder, always in the service of god we are blessed!.... and things of that style so we quote the funny sentances and laugh.
things really are going great here, i feel so blessed that the Lord has let us find some people who really WANT to hear and change, it makes everthing alot nicer. im always grateful that missionary work diligently performed forms a wall of protection against temptacion or disanimo (that something that is promised in PMG in the chap 6 part about obediencia) becuase ive really have felt that my time here and i contiue to feel so.
thanks for your love and prayers and letters
Elder Larson
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