Well the first full week of this new transfer was busy! We found a ton of new people to teach and I had to speak a lot more Spanish. Church was a genuine nightmare so if you don't read the whole thing you'll wanna read that part for sure haha.
So on Tuesday we had to drive out to Hobbs, New Mexico which is about 2 hours away and we had to drop off Elder Alvey and pick up my new comp Elder Checketts. I'm gonna miss Elder Alvey a ton! He was such a good first comp but Elder Checketts is sick! So that'll be exciting. The first night we got here we went to a members house to eat and she's a psychopath. She just screams and throws silverware but she makes good food so it's worth it.
We've been taking care of some horses and we showed up one morning and one of the horses had some gnarly cuts and gashes. So we're bad horsesitters.
We went to the State Fair here and handed out pictures of Jesus with our number on them. And then we accidentally tried handing the pictures to a group of people from some Apostolic church and they started bashing about baptism and going off haha. "Never start a bash but never lose one either" -Elder Alvey
One of the nights we double booked and had two Spanish lessons so we did some splits with the ZLs because they both speak Spanish. Elder Bush came with me and he's just a huge lovable man. But the guy we taught just wasn't super educated. We read James 1:5 and it was supposed to be fast but then he didn't understand the scripture so we spent like 15 minutes on it because he was confused and then by the end he forgot who Joseph Smith was. So either I'm a horrible teacher or he was an idiot (probably a bit of both). But the other lesson with a family named Oscar and Jasmine went well!! They love the Book of Mormon and were getting super into the story of the same Jesus as the Bible coming to the americas and stuff. So that was awesome!
One night we found this lady named Donna who has a crazy story. She was taught like 30 years ago, set to be baptized, and then the week of her baptism our church building burnt down and she was never baptized. Then about 5 years ago she was taught again and the missionaries basically taught false doctrine. She thought the Book of Mormon was written and created by Joseph Smith, and they told her she has to wear a dress or skirt to church so she never came. But we're teaching her, and clarified the Book of Mormon and she's a lot more interested now! Only problem, she's kinda into Black Magic and her whole house has symbols and statues that just invite it all in. So it's gross in there but hey she's interested so we'll take it.
Okay for Sunday haha. If you skipped the rest read here. So it started out in the morning we were daily planning and right after I got the impression to call one of the people we met on the street a few weeks back. Weve met with her once or twice. So we did anf she was just crying and anxious and depressed because her mom just got readmitted to the Hospital because of a brain bleed. She also has like 17 people living in her house and three of them have special needs. And her life is kinda in shambles right now. So we went to the Hospital and gave her mom a blessing. And the lady said every time she prays and needs help we always call. She called us her Angels haha. So that was awesome! And how she's willing to meet with us more.
okay now for our nightmare. So first we ate Lunch with an excommunicated member. WILD. Then, one of the people we met on the street randomly showed up to church. AWESOME. But, we ran out of sacrament cups. So our meeting started 30 minutes late as our guy is just sitting there all confused. So, we got two huge trays from the Kitchen and put normal cups of water on them. So the sacrament just looked like waiters at a restaurant. And, in our opening prayer they said the words "please bless the investigator who is here investigating the church." So awkward. Then, the 2 speakers legit just printed conference talks and read them haha. Which was kind of okay because the message was at least good but it was sooo boring (my comp Elder Checketts fell asleep lol) and the two speakers could barely read or speak Spanish so everyone was confused cuz no one understood and then they kept jumping back and forth between Spanish and English. Needless to say, our guy is not coming back haha.
Okay sorry for the long email everyone! Love you all! Talk to ya next week!
Love, Elder Ryan
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