Another Monday Holiday

We were on exchanges on tuesday, so I was actually somewhere else, but
my companion and the other elder had a really good lesson with Perla,
where she realized what the spirit was and that she felt it every time
she went to church or read the book of mormon and that she needs to
get baptized and her boyfriend moved out and she was crying and her
member friend was crying and the missionaries were crying and the veil
was so thin that when they taught something she just knew it was true.
So I was kinda sad to have missed that... but it was good.  We
weren't able to line up schedules with her again, though, and she
didn't make it to church because she had to babysit some kids because
she has been needing work really bad since her boyfriend left.  She
should be getting baptized soon, though.


Also, max came to a baptism of one of the sister missionaries'
investigators, and had a good experience, and apparently told one of
the other missionaries there that he was going to be the next one
getting baptized, which the other misionary didn't tell us until later
and we didn't have a chance to talk to max about, so that's still
pending as well.


We found the Aguilar family again, but I think they were deliberately
avoiding us... we have an appointment tonight, so we'll see if they
really do want to talk to us or not.  It could've just been bad
timing, though, because the dad was in the hospital a little for an
injury at work.


There have actually been a few injuries around us lately and it
worries me sometimes...  We are involved in an important work and it
is true that the enemy will do all he can to hurt and destroy.
Obedience to all of the rules is important, because many of the
seemingly unimportant ones are there because of a previous or foreseen
injury or death.


Also, the other night, we got stopped by the police.  We were walking
home at night, so it was pretty dark, and we were catching up to this
guy who was walking the same way and dressed all in black, carrying a
white bag.  The police drove by and shined their light on him, then
us, then him again, and stopped him.  We got stopped a little way up
the road by another officer while the first guy was being frisked and
found out that a door had been kicked in and the apartment robbed a
few minutes ago in the apartments we were walking away from by three
guys wearing all black, one of them carrying a white bag.  So that
made us pretty suspicious looking.  When he figured out we were
misionaries, though, he just took our information and let us go.  Then
there was an accident in a nearby intersection, and I think they ended
up getting the real culprits there because they crashed while they
were trying to get away.


Anyways, that's pretty much the week.  Nothing else too crazy
happened.  Just lot's of walking and knocking.  
Love you a ton!!!


Elder Katzakian