June 15, 2015
Well this week was a little
crazy, just to get it out of the way the crazy story of the week when a drunk
guy got in my face trying to call me out and almost hit me... Well my companion
and I were contacting a family in the street and as we were contacting the dad
some drunk guy walked by trying to talk to me in English, and like most Mexican
English I didn’t understand a word he said.... He passed by and we continued
contacting the family but he came back about a minute later and started talking
to me, interrupting our conversation and calling me a million different swear
words asked me why I was here in Mexico. After smelling the strong smell of alcohol
on his breath, and getting a little mad at what he was saying to me and the way
he was saying it I responded "I’m here to help people leave their drinking
problems".... He didn’t like that to much and got up in my face and
started blasting me with questions about the bible, about what I believed and
things like that. I answered all his questions and bore my testimony. He was
pretty bugged (I’m not sure why) when I said that I know that what I share is
true. He asked me how I could know that what I share was true? Then he made his
hand into a fake gun, but his two fingers up to my forehead and asked:
"what happens if I pull my gun out, put it to your head and BANG,
your dead what now idiot!?" Meanwhile this family is just watching this
guy lose his cool in my face, they asked him to back off and continue on his
way, he went on a rant about "the santa muerte" which is a witch
craft they do here in Mexico where they worship death and make convents with
the devil. After a while of being in my face, calling me some of the worst
things you could ever hear in Spanish, he finally left.
Second crazy story, at 8 at
night we were teaching a lady in one of the more dangerous parts of our area.
There was a huge party going on outside about 3 streets over. In the middle of
our lesson with this investigator we heard about 12 gun shots and then a ton of
screaming and shortly after sirens. We finished up our lesson and left. Passing
by the street there were cop cars all over, they were talking to some people,
but we didn’t see any dead bodies. The lady that we were talking to accepted a
baptismal date for the 28th of June.
Lastly, This week we got a
new ward mission leader and assistant to the ward mission leader. We are
working with the APs with a big family that is going to get baptized the 28th
also and we made plans to take all of the recent converts, the big family, and
any other investigators to the temple and visitors center this Saturday. It is
going to be a great experience, a member from the ward is going to pay to rent
out a bus and we are all going to go together. Well that was my crazy week,
hopefully I will have some great stories to tell you all this week that comes
up. I cant believe I have 21 weeks left.... the mission is flying by. I still can’t
believe it. I love you all and hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Adams
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