Hay Bendito

Que la que hay?! ¡Wepa pa!

Well, somehow it's another week here as a missionary. The weeks fly by so fast, but the days drag on. Idek, time is created for man and by man. It's in the scriptures, I can prove it - Alma 40:8. Now, whether there is more than one time appointed for men to rise, it mattereth not; for all do not die at once, and this mattereth not; all is as one day with God, and time only is measured unto men.

Did you see that last part? Time is only measured unto men, ¿qué significa? It means that time is fake, and so are languages. Amén.

Bueno, so we're still fasting from English, but I have cheated a lot. But I have gotten so much better, I couldn't take it anymore, my brain was cooked. So it's mostly Spanish and Spanglish, and then a tiny bit of English when it's too much. Jaja, but I am not receiving English anywhere, so I am getting really good at understanding what people say to me. And this sounds like I'm not only speaking Spanish, okay, I am. It's mostly Spanish and Spanglish, básicamente no English. But my brain was so cooked last Monday.

Barney came again to sacrament. He told me he prays in his head during the sacrament. That he always says "Jesus" from the Bible, not the Mormon Jesus, because they're different Jesuses. I'm like, bruh. It's the same guy, it's our Savior, there is only one Jesus Christ. I don't think he is against our church as much anymore, but he still doesn't want lessons. But he's coming to church, so that's an amen from me, amen.

My parents always said, "Wait, what are you going to do when we're not here to cook for you?" Because I would always convince them to make me by saying, "One day I won't be here for you to cook for me." And I finally have my answer: "I have a companion." Bro, my companion be feeding me good. He made me Mexican rice, ¡VAMOS!, and other stuff too, but that was legendary. So mom and dad, your answer is when I don't have you, I'll have a companion or a wife, or you guys, so I never need to cook.

We had exchanges this week. I went to Vega Baja with Elder Phillips again, like last time. It was cool, district counsel was so sick, and the spirit was so strong. I keep getting the thought that the key to a broken heart and a contrite spirit is curiosity. Because curiosity breaks the heart and reaches, pierces the spirit. A person with a broken heart and contrite spirit is curious about where to go and where to look, curious about how they got there. The key to making someone's heart soften in missionary work is curiosity. The natural man is an enemy to God, but curiosity gets past the natural man and reaches the spirit. The only place to go when you reach rock bottom is up. But the only way to get up is steps, so we go from bottom to our knees, praying with God. This gospel changes lives, changed my life, and it can change yours. Curiosity causes humility. It causes love. When we're curious, we ask questions. When we're curious, we stop and think about something with real intent. We need to be curious to have humility and love. As missionaries, we have to have curiosity to find people, understand people, see them as God sees them. And people need curiosity to be willing to listen. We have to teach to cause curiosity, to get past the natural man and to the spirit. Curiosity is key. Curiosity is the best tool. Curiosity causes friendships. It causes a better life.

Anyways, I had a powerful spirit then about curiosity during district counsel, but district counsel wasn't even related to any of that. That's why I love the spirit. We need to hear what we need to hear from God, not from man. Amen. Anyways, my exchange was sick. We went to this lady's house who Elder Rajo baptized in like May, and she has her nephew who was also baptized. Anyways, whenever I smile at Puerto Ricans, they say "hay bendito." Que lindo, preciosa (but really high-pitched like a girl and also slow like an old woman). Basically, they're like saying we're adorable. It's so funny. Anyways, we left that lady's house and went to some other lady who has the wackiest questions and was like Bible bashing but not for like 2 hours. Literally, she told us that Adam and Eve had kids before the garden. That there were more people there because Cain had kids. Lol, the Bible is the priesthood keys and that the Holy Ghost is the revelator. Basically, the Holy Ghost is the prophet. Lol. The apple, though, in the garden, we talked about it and how they were innocent for 40 minutes. She doesn't get it. She thinks that they weren't and had kids before. I don't know, man, she's crazy and not ready. Two hours later, after wasting all our afternoon, we went to Toa Alta to Esther's, who just got baptized and put chicken into a Ziploc in my bag.

Had a conference in Bayamon this week with Hermana Craig and some other Primary and Young Women's presidency and some seventies from PR and also Elder Gavarett of the Caribbean Area. It was cool. Bayamon (San Juan) is dope.

Played kickball as a zone today and mi fui para los muertos. It do be like that. I hit 2 home runs and the air here is so much more humid, and so I felt so much faster. And then I went too hard, and now I'm sunburnt and tired. Lol.

Had Halloween, but they don't celebrate that. They're already starting their 3-month Christmas. Christmas here is Nov 1 - January 21 about because they have Christmas and Three Kings' Day, and it's a blast from what I heard. So that's cool.

Visited Sariluz again and her family Monday. She's elect, but she won't leave her mom to come to church. It's sad. She also bailed on our lesson on Thursday and tonight. It kinda sucks. The devil is so smart and works so hard. I hate Satan.

We visited Remberto this week. Lol, he keeps saying we need to defend the Mormon name, even though the prophet told us not to say "Mormon." Then he told us that he prayed, and God told him it's okay, which was weird because God wouldn't say that if He gave the prophet revelation. Anyways, we love that guy, and we might have to help him or not. Idk, is it bad to let him defend the Mormon name? Jajaj, nah, we will fix his reason to defend the name for the Book of Mormon so it can turn into a teaching. We might also have to give him history on where "Mormon" comes from because he told me and Elder Christensen not to call ourselves "gringos" because it's bad. So I'll just say that "Mormon" is a bad nickname from when they were trying to kill the Latter-day Saints. Psychology.

We met some guy so elect in the calle this week. We gave him a pamphlet, and he already started reading it when we were walking away. It was hype.

Met some lady and some guy who was painting in his garage, and they weren't there. They had dementia. Well, the husband did. The wife was loco, and he kept asking us where we were from. It was sick. Good painter, though. Cool guy, apparently friends with someone who died on the same plane as Clemente and also was a plane mechanic, and his wife grew up in Jersey.

Curiosity is key. 

I got a taco maker this week. 

Elder Roeser is papa.

Elder Thomas is my grandma.

Real hasta la muerte. Nos vemos. Les quiero con besos y amor.