Another week in Telde - And it was great! Cold spell gone - back to island paradise. The other day, we went up to the mountains with an investigator who wanted to introduce us to his friends. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. There were sheep everywhere, orange trees that friendly neighbors let you pick, flowers, fresh air, craggly cliff faces - we city missionaries were certainly out of our element. But we got some free oranges for smoothies, so that was nice. It´s made with oranges, pineapples, kiwis, strawberries, gofio, and yogurt. Not only all natural ingredients, but all made on farms less than an hour away! NIce Vitamin C bomb to chase away any weird sickness. (I´m fine, by the way).
We played soccer again today, with some kids who are investigating the church. It´s the third week in a row, with promieses of becoming a regular thing, so my companion bought himself some brand new soccer shoes. (I didn´t because I think I´m headed back to the peninsula in 2 weeks.) But anyways his very new and very expensive shoes rewarded by breaking and with a MASSIVE blister over basically the whole front of his foot. He´s doing great though - better than I thought he would. He´s really lucky because this upcoming week has very few lessons already planned, which means plenty of contacting and walking on his raw skin to toughen it up!
Our investigators are doing great as well! It´s so cool to see eternal progression in someone else. When they keep the commandments, pray, read, you feel the spirit so strong that testimony just comes. People are saying things and doing things with us they would NOT have done 3 months ago. One of them, Fran couldn´t make it to church this week, because he was a bouncer at a party in Las Palmas. Caraval was last saturday. Thank heavens everyone left our town for the big city. All we saw was people in various shades of crazy getting onto buses headed far away. Carnaval was actually one of the quitest times all year - almost even more than New Year´s morning. But anyways Fran was a bouncer for this CRAZY party - he saw things nobody should ever see. His job included Sparta-kicking some borachos off the truck (where the party is) and leaving their passed-out bodies on benches or in the street. He told us that he hates carnaval and can understand why God´s commandments forbid most things done there. Fran recently dropped coffee, tea, alcohol, and girls for the sake of being in tune with the spirit - so this job was a sure bet he was NOT doing anything he shouldn´t. I love God.
Oh also we are on the road to having a Rama Mission Leader! We didn´t have one after the calling change, but now I think we´re close. A menos activo named José Matias recently came back to church (not by anything we did - all the Spirit, because beforehand he was very anti-church, polygamy and stuff). He is on the road to recieve the Melchisidek priesthood this coming conference, about which he is VERY excited. The Branch President told José that he wanted him to start working with the missionaries so that, after conference, he could become Mission Leader. So I bought José a Preach my gospel, and we invited him to a discussion. Not only did he show up (early) but he came having studied the whole of The Plan of Salvation, including how to give commitments at the end! That was super cool. He kept asking "Now what´s my job again? And which scripture is the best for that?"
In other news . . . Well there is not a whole lot of other news (also I´m running out of money on this computer) We´re doing great out here! The gospel is true. Jesus Christ is the redeemer. The Book of Mormon is the word of God. Bear your testimony without fear. Sacrifice brings blessings. Consecration and perfection - we´re getting there eventually. What´s important is to remember what Yoda said. These are some of my thoughts in my current conference talk kick. I love having a USB.
Elder Stew
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