So this week has been very busy. I'm finally seeing real purpose behind the daily records we keep. We've
been talking to so many different people I can't keep it all straight. That's a good thing, but it's a little exhausting haha. So little Jorge is pretty much set on going to a bunch of other churches
before he comes back or settles on one, and he's not super
enthusiastic about talking to us anymore, so that's kind of a
bummer... but his little sister is amazing. She reads the Book of
Mormon and prays every day and she says she's received an answer and
that it's true and she is sure she wants to be baptized, but daddy
Jorge wants her to wait because he wants her and her brother to choose
together and agree... we're still helping him with his vices and
stuff, too. This last Sunday they accidentally slept in a little
because of a late Saturday, and didn't quite make it to church, but
they'll be there next week and a couple other kids were just left with
them and they got permission from the parents to take them to church
and be taught and stuff, though, so that's neat.
Max did make it to church this week. He's really committed to
changing his life and coming to God, and he wants to get baptized; he
just wants to get his life more in order first. We're working on a
goal with him.
We found this really cool family, the Garcias, who are excited to
learn, as well. We've taught them a couple times, and told them
they'll want to get baptized, but I don't think they really understood
the first time because they just kind of wen of about how their church
wasn't that great, and it was too bad that it was their church, but
they were born into it, so what can you do, right? Anyways, the
second time, (wow I almost can't think of how to word this because I'm
thinking it in Spanish and typing in English) upon hearing the account
of the first vision and what it meant, they proceeded to explain
unusual encounters with spirits they had had in the past with us and
ask us about what they might mean, and then we had to go, so I think
they still don't really get it... but their daughter (she's like
twenty) is eating it all up. We left a pamphlet and she studied it
multiple times and answered all the "additional study" questions in
the back, and told us about a friend who would also be interested.
They all also agreed to read/pray about the Book of Mormon. We'll see
what happens.
We also met a guy on the street near his house who went to church for
like a year in Arizona, then moved to some town in the sticks of Texas
where there was neither church nor missionaries. They recently moved
to Austin and we fond them. They're the Chacon family and they've got
four kids, one of them nine months old and recently released from the
hospital for some sickness she had... They're really struggling
financially and stuff, but they love God and like the Book of Mormon,
and hopefully we'll be able to help them.
There are a bunch of other random people we ran into and taught, but
those are probably the coolest for now.
The other night, we had a dinner with the Lopez family (Cheeto, the
one who got baptized) and it was really good. They live on a farm and
killed and cooked one of their own chickens for Elder Sefcik (he's the
one who did the physical baptizing, so Cheeto always calls him
"Padrino" [Godfather]), and we had cake. Todos le dimos una mordida
(we all took a bite, but "una mordida" is different kinda... we all
went to bite the cake, and had it shoved in our face). Cheeto said he
didn't want to do it because he had a sore throat, but when his wife
didn't want to he put her in a headlock and put the cake on her face,
the funniest part, though, was that while he was thus occupied, I told
Elder Sefcik, who was sitting closer, to put Cheetos cake in his face,
which he did. It was basically absolutely hilarious. We got some good
pictures, and I'll send those next week.
Elder Katzakian
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