Week Of Teaching

Well, this week was quite the week. It was just good and all over the place. I would say this week felt like the hardest, yet weirdly most miraculous, week in the entire mission.

It has been a while since I put any actual effort into an email, so today I'll tell you about the friends we are teaching so you can know the rundown.

Tanesha (baptismal date for Dec 17th) - Tanesha is a young girl in college. She is super cool and really prepared for the gospel. She is very good at keeping the commitments we give her, and that's always nice when people take what you are saying seriously. About the time I got to Tortola, Elder Teuscher and I were in a neighborhood, at this apartment, talking to these two dudes. They were really cool, and this girl (Tanesha) walked by and said, "Hola." Me, being fresh out of Puerto Rico at the time, thought she was Dominican, so I started talking in Spanish. She looked at me with a blank face and walked into her house. Elder Teuscher, at the time (this was like August), told me I was stupid and that she didn't speak Spanish. I felt a little dumb. Fast forward about three weeks ago or two, Elder Deer and I were knocking on this house, and she comes out. We talk and get to know her. We ask her if she's ever met with missionaries; she said, "No, but I have seen them around here" (while pointing to her little dirt driveway). It hit me that this was the same girl I scared with Spanish (she still has no idea that was me), and I don't even know if she remembers that. But we have been teaching her since three weeks ago, and our lessons are really good and powerful. She always has good questions and understands what we are saying. We follow up with her, and she says, "I was only able to read the chapter once," and we are like, "That's all we were asking for." But she's cool. She came to church yesterday but left after sacrament because she thought it was over. She just slipped out, and we texted her after, saying, "We are sad you had to leave," and she was like, "Oh, I thought it was over." Weird she didn't say bye. Please pray for her to be able to get baptized!

Tekoan (baptismal date for Dec 17th) - Tekoan needs lots of prayers to be able to come to church. He's 17 and in high school, and he has the biggest desire to learn and grow and be baptized. But he always has work on Sundays, so he hasn't been to church yet. Elder Teuscher and I found him while knocking doors a few weeks before he went home.

Robin - She is a really awesome lady. She is actually the one we had the lesson with last week when we were in the picture-perfect scene. We just had a random thought to go to this neighborhood, and we found Robin knocking on these groups of houses, and she was really cool. So we set up a future appointment, and we went and visited her (which was that first lesson last week). Then this week, we went and taught the plan of salvation on Tuesday, and she seemed really stressed. So, two days later, we had district council about Ammon, and it hit me really hard to offer her service. We texted her, and she said that we were a huge blessing. So, on Saturday, we went and helped her fix up an apartment so her mom with cancer can help pay for chemo with the rent. It seemed very spiritual, and it was funny how everything was calculated to help her. Not only that, we met her younger sister, Brittney, who ended up coming to church, all because we followed the prompting to serve.

April is Robin's other sister, who is actually the greatest as well. We are going to baptize a whole apartment building, and knowing my luck, I am going to get transferred back to Puerto Rico right before we have them ready to be baptized. Anyways, April is a mom with two young kids, and she's basically a perfect candidate for the restoration. She had basically the same story as Joseph Smith and really understood authority and the restoration. So, that was super sick.

I'm too lazy to keep writing.

This week was crazy. I accidentally stepped in a termite nest. Well, it's a long but short story. Elder Deer and I were walking up a street, and I saw the jungle, so I said, "Well, Elder, I really need to go pee. I'm going in." Long story short, a pee later and a termite nest that I stepped in and some banana spiders I had to flick off myself, I escaped unharmed and had used the bathroom. I had like a hundred termites crawling on my leg.