Hi Family!
Still no rain in Arizona...that stinks..there is lots of rain here. Wow, school is about to start again and Carly will be a junior! CRAZY! If you could send me a CD of something to listen too, I was trying to upload hymns in spanish and the computer here deleted everything I had loaded on my iPod so I now have nothing approved to listen too.
In your letters, you know how you told me our faith would be tried before we will receive blessings--okay my faith has sure been tried the last month and right now we are definitely receiving those blessing this week, this week has been AWESOME.
Saturday we were looking for the home of an inactive member, we passed by a drunk man sitting on a log and he told us he wanted to hear the word of God, so we stopped to talk with him, but he was too drunk to understand what we were saying to him. We asked him were he lived and he pointed off in a direction so we told him we would stop by his home sometime and visit. We continued down the road looking for the members home and an old man started walking behind us, so my companion started to talk to him, then the drunk starts yelling to us the name of the old man we are talking too. We ask him if he knows the drunk man and he tells us his name and shows us were he lives and then leaves us.
We are standing in front of the drunk mans house and yell out "Buenas!" at the gate, and a girl about 16 years old comes out of the house to talk to us. I noticed a woman poking her head through the door opening so I yelled "Hola" and she waved back and came out by the girl. We told her who we were and she invited us in to talk to them. Her name is Adela and had not been to church since she was 15 years old and was probably close to 40 now. (Adela is the wife of the drunk man on the log)
We started to teach her and I was talking about faith in Jesus Christ and she stops us to tell us that 15 days ago she had been praying cuzs she is have a really hard time and needed help. I told her that is why my companion and I were there. We finished teaching her the lesson and invited her to church the next day, but she said she couldn't attend, BUT the next morning she was at church with her two girls. After church she asked if she could talk to Elder Alonso and I in private. We went into a room at the church and she starts to cry and told us her family is having many problems with her husband and they haven't eaten for awhile and she can hardly support her kids. She also told us, that if we had arrived at her house the day before, one hour later, she would have committed suicide....WOW...We then gave her a blessing of comfort. We talked with her daughters, they loved church and wanted to come back next week with Adela. It's pretty crazy to think if we had not gone to her house, she may have committed suicide.
We are also teaching a couple, Jose and Anna, they are 18 and 24 years old, and a cool guy named Jyro. He went to sacrament meeting with us and wants the lessons so hopefully he will accept repentance unto baptism.
Once again, thank you to all of you for everything and love you all! I wish I had more than 1 hour for emailing on the computer because they are slow as heck. Sorry I can't reply to everyone and everything but I'm going to try and send more pictures.
Love, Elder Buck
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Still no rain in Arizona...that stinks..there is lots of rain here. Wow, school is about to start again and Carly will be a junior! CRAZY! If you could send me a CD of something to listen too, I was trying to upload hymns in spanish and the computer here deleted everything I had loaded on my iPod so I now have nothing approved to listen too.
In your letters, you know how you told me our faith would be tried before we will receive blessings--okay my faith has sure been tried the last month and right now we are definitely receiving those blessing this week, this week has been AWESOME.
Saturday we were looking for the home of an inactive member, we passed by a drunk man sitting on a log and he told us he wanted to hear the word of God, so we stopped to talk with him, but he was too drunk to understand what we were saying to him. We asked him were he lived and he pointed off in a direction so we told him we would stop by his home sometime and visit. We continued down the road looking for the members home and an old man started walking behind us, so my companion started to talk to him, then the drunk starts yelling to us the name of the old man we are talking too. We ask him if he knows the drunk man and he tells us his name and shows us were he lives and then leaves us.
We are standing in front of the drunk mans house and yell out "Buenas!" at the gate, and a girl about 16 years old comes out of the house to talk to us. I noticed a woman poking her head through the door opening so I yelled "Hola" and she waved back and came out by the girl. We told her who we were and she invited us in to talk to them. Her name is Adela and had not been to church since she was 15 years old and was probably close to 40 now. (Adela is the wife of the drunk man on the log)
We started to teach her and I was talking about faith in Jesus Christ and she stops us to tell us that 15 days ago she had been praying cuzs she is have a really hard time and needed help. I told her that is why my companion and I were there. We finished teaching her the lesson and invited her to church the next day, but she said she couldn't attend, BUT the next morning she was at church with her two girls. After church she asked if she could talk to Elder Alonso and I in private. We went into a room at the church and she starts to cry and told us her family is having many problems with her husband and they haven't eaten for awhile and she can hardly support her kids. She also told us, that if we had arrived at her house the day before, one hour later, she would have committed suicide....WOW...We then gave her a blessing of comfort. We talked with her daughters, they loved church and wanted to come back next week with Adela. It's pretty crazy to think if we had not gone to her house, she may have committed suicide.
We are also teaching a couple, Jose and Anna, they are 18 and 24 years old, and a cool guy named Jyro. He went to sacrament meeting with us and wants the lessons so hopefully he will accept repentance unto baptism.
Once again, thank you to all of you for everything and love you all! I wish I had more than 1 hour for emailing on the computer because they are slow as heck. Sorry I can't reply to everyone and everything but I'm going to try and send more pictures.
Love, Elder Buck
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