So this week was fun! I learned some crazy things so apparently there's a lot of cartel activity here in Roswell which I personally think is sick as long as they leave me alone. But it's super sick we see them driving around town in their caravans and stuff. We also stumbled upon some drug deals and iffy stuff I'll talk about later haha. And then in our church building me and Elder Alvey had a showdown with 2 scorpions who somehow got past the poison line. It was pretty wild but evil cannot win so we eventually prevailed.
Anyway this week we had a few awesome lessons with a family that I'm really excited about! We've had 3 lessons with this family now and the first two was only with the grandma, her daughter and her 2 kids. The grandma is Jojo and the mom is Sam. They're seriously so cool and they love visiting and talking with us which is super rare here so we're cherishing that. On the third lesson, we finally got the Grandpa, Chad, to join us. We actually call him Pooky though because he thinks his name is too white haha. Anyway, he sat in and we had an awesome lesson about The Plan of Salvation and they were all loving what they were hearing and feeling. We're hoping to get Pooky to come to basketball on Tuesday night! They're a super awesome fam and we have a few more lessons with them this week...hopefully we can get them to church on Sunday.
The next guy we taught was a man named Luis. And honestly, this is the first time I've spoken Spanish besides at church haha. But it was so cool to see the spirit help me say what I needed to say! We taught him the whole first lesson and he said we can come back. The trouble is he can't read, so he can't study the book of mormon right now. And he doesn't have a phone haha. But he also has 2 sons who want to talk to us more and we're hoping that they can come to Basketball as well!
So we went to this neighborhood called The Fruit Basket. It's called that because all the street names are a fruit haha. Sounds sweet, but it is the utter ghetto. I mean, this whole town kinda is but especially here. And while it was sketchy we made tons of contacts there! We had like 3 or 4 different people make return appointments with us! So I'll let ya know how those go next week. Then we found this guy named Gunner and he was talking with us and had some CRAZY stories about people getting killed on his street and stuff. Anyway we set up a return appointment and then outta nowhere it started dumping rain. And they don't have gutters here so the roads just turn into rivers. It was so crazy. We got to a members house and they made us dinner while the road was a legit river about a foot deep.
Anyway we then went to a neighborhood called Base which is also ghetto. But usually we can find some good people to talk to there! We found someone who weirdly was just like very open to coming to church on Sunday and what not so we'll see if he does. And then we walked up on these guys in these really nice trucks and they get all scared cuz they said they thought we were the cops haha. Then they exchanged something and drove off. So that was interesting. And in the same neighborhood we got chased by multiple rabid dogs. I had to kick one and these dogs down here are scum of the earth. Gross nasty things so I will be ordering a dog whistle. We also had a minor break in incident with a neighbor downstairs but no need for the specifics haha.
Anyway this week was awesome! I'm loving the mission! It's so cool to see people's life start to change as we talk to them about Christ. I listened to a talk by Elder Holland where he said that as you testify of Christ, that people's eyes will lighten up as they recognize something familiar about the message. I know that's true! I've seen it just in the past two weeks. I love this gospel and I love you all!!
Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Love, Elder Ryan
1-They had a DOWNPOUR the other day and they all got soaked. Bryson and his comp, Elder Alvey.
2-Bryson and some of the other Elder's and a Sister in his district, soaked after the downpour!
3-The view down one of the streets in his area.
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