Week 5

Hey awesome family!!! :)

 

 

Quiero escribir mi correo electronico en Espanol porque soy un misionero hispanohablante. Esta semana era muy bien. Tuve muchas experencias extranas. Nuestro investigador llamo la policia para arrestar su esposa. Era muy chistoso pero la mujer es un mujer muy compasionado. Ella va estar en carcel por un ano
porque eso el la segundo vez que ella pegaba su esposo. Tambien tuvimos intercambios esta semana. Estaba el companero de Elder Gerber por un dia. El es bien suave. Tuvimos mucho exito cuando estabamos companeros. Tuve que dirigir las lecciones paraque yo practicara mi espanol y mi abilidad como un maestro. Tengo noticia mala pero esta bien. La familia Garcia no van bautizarse este domingo porque no tuvimos la chanza ensenarles antes de sus bautismos. PERO! Toda la familia esta tan animada por la 28th de esta mes.

Tengo noticia buena!!!!!! Damian me pregunto que el quiere que yo bautizarse!!!! ESTOY MUY FELIZ!!!!!

Now in English lol

This week was pretty good! We had a lot of weird experiences. One of our investigators called the cops on his wife and she is now in jail for at least a year! It was nuts! We went by earlier that day and did about 3 hours of service. Afterwards we all had lunch and we taught them about the plan of salvation. It went great! Everyone was happy! Then we came by a couple hours later to do something else for them and we find out that the wife was sent to jail! It was soo weird because she is such a nice lady! It absolutely love her! Supposedly she has a temper lol.

We went on exchanges this week. Elder Gerber was my companion for the day and it went great. He is so awesome! He is from Georgia! He is also our District leader. It was a really cool day because I had the opportunity to lead in all the lessons and he gave me some pretty awesome compliments. He said that I had awesome Spanish that was at the level of someone who had been on their missions for about 9 months and that I was such a good missionary that he said he would be shocked if I wasn't an Assistant to the President one day :) I am so humbled by his compliments because I have been really working hard and learning as much as I can.

We had a pretty funny time teaching one of our new investigators. Her daughter Ana answered the door and she is 17 and we started talking with her and asked if her mom was home. She said she was, but that she was in bed because she had surgery earlier that week. Elder Gerber and I asked if she was okay. As we said this her mom walks up and is cradling "herself" after talking she told us that she had a certain "surgery" done. IT WAS SOOO AWKWARD!!! The whole time we were teaching she was supporting them with her arm. The lesson was like 40 minutes and suuuuper awkward. Other than that the lesson was awesome! We are excited to see where they end up because, they actually were asked three questions by a person in the mall, 'Where do you think we come from? Why do you think we are here? Where do you think we go after this life?'. They didn't know what to say.  We then came by and we were able to answer those 3 questions! THEY LOVED IT! We are coming back this week!

Damian is doing great! Guess what!? He asked me to baptize him! I was soo honored that he asked me out of all the other Elders. We are definitely going to be friends for a long time! Especially if he goes to BYU! The cool thing is, when he goes through the Temple in a year I can be his escort (if he wants) or at least I can go with him!

The Garcia's are doing great, but unfortunately we can't baptize them this week because we havent had a chance to teach them all that they need to be taught. So far they have been to 2 ward activities 3 sundays at church and 3 family nights and they hosted the one last night!!! :) They are awesome! They also brought Brother Garcia's brother to Church and Family night and he likes it. Who knows, he might be getting baptized soon. So they are being baptized on 07/28/13 along with Damian.

I taught a youth class at church this past Sunday. We invited a 14 year old Investigator to Church. The other elders had been teaching him previously and supposedly they have invited him to be baptized many times and he keeps saying that he wants to wait until he is 16 (I didn't know this before hand). So Sunday was the first day that he has been our investigator. We watched that slideshow about Christ (The one that I bought mom) and we totally felt the Spirit. In the slideshow miraculously there is a part with pictures of baptism. So I decided to talk about that. I went around and had everyone share why they thought that baptism was important to them specifically. Junior Garcia had an awesome response which was awesome because he hasn't been baptized yet haha Then it came around to Sonny and he gave this super awesome answer so.... I invited him to be baptized and he said yes!!!! The date is in 3 weeks,  but when we talk to him later on this week we are going to talk to him and his parents about it. :)) So the date is to be announced! :))) I have been extremely blessed and I thank our Heavenly Father every moment for his preparation of these people. There has not been a baptism in this ward for over 6 months. It is amazing and so humbling. I absolutely LOVE THESE PEOPLE!!!!

Love Always,
Elder Hays