Hey Everyone,
Ok, so i sent out that picture. that's Margarita with the three crazy kids, its pretty funny because the two older ones are named mario and luigi, hahaha. me and my companion were joking that she will probably name the next girl peach or the next boy bowser. oh, but it's funny because her esposo is mario too and he works everyday all day from 8 to 9 at night and then he comes home and plays nintendo. so, haha, that's probably how they got those names. but yeah, so we went to the mormon batallion. it was way fun especially with the kids, because those kids are crazy and were running all over the place. so margarita would have to go run after them and she kept making me push the baby in the stroller. i have a picture (see above), its pretty funny.
but yeah, we went to this dinner party in the back afterwards and so there were a bunch of members there and they were all laughing and saying, oh practicing there elder? it was pretty embarassing, but funny too. oh and it was way weird too. this lady just straight up said Elder do you like soccer?.. "yeah i like soccer," then she said, "oh have you taken any soccer classes?" and me i was like, lady are you smoking something... and i said yeah, i had soccer classes and then she asked if i did in BYU and i was like, yes. by now i was like braddah, this lady is a witch or something, next thing you know shes gonna tell me how old i am and what my first name is haha. but it turned out that her daughter who was standing behind her recognized me from the class. so it was weird. super small world! she lives in San diego. crazy stuff. So yeah yesterday was a pretty crazy day. really good though. But i don't know about her. it's tough. we asked her if she was coming to church this sunday, she said maybe and she was like making excuses. but did we go to church every week when we were investigators? So yeah, and she can't read well too. and the weird thing is that she can't read spanish, which is kind of like a lot of people even in the branch. it's different, something i take for granted. like that would be way junk if i couldn't read. but yeah, so i was thinking about getting a spanish CD of the Book of Mormon, but my companion said its expensive so i probably won't. so yeah. oh but we have been trying to get to know magarita's esposo mario, but we never get to talk to him kus he works, but he has saturday and sunday mornings off. so we thought about setting up a soccer game this saturday and so he's coming and we got a couple more investigators coming and so me, members and some of the other investigators of the other missionaries too that live in the apartment slash attic. SO its gonna be sick, we are gonna have a ton of people there. so stoked!
Oh, we had a way good lesson with another person this week too, his name is guillermo, he's a good guy. like he lost all of his friends and his family and he moves from his brother's house to his father's house back and forth. and he doesn't really have work. he gets called in for janitor some times, but it's just some rough stuff. but thats good too at the same time becuase he knows how important it is to follow Jesus Christ and he knows he needs to and he's starting to change and stop drinking. which is sick. he came to sacrament meeting this sunday it was way good. we have a lesson with him tomorrow. that's pretty much it as for the people we have... oh no, wait ok highlight of the whole week. we went to this family in the branch, the Pozos and the husband is less active, but a really good guy. and we went to have a FHE with them and it went really good. and then this sunday we saw him at church!! oh man best feeling in the world to see him walk through the doors and we are seeing them on thursday. It's amazing like something that small just made my day.
Oh, but something that stood out to me, was yesterday we were riding the trolley and sister Soriano, she's in the picture right next to me, sweetest lady. she talked to practically everyone about the gospel and she was handing out cards and everything all over the place. it was just sick! I mean i know that she really gets it. you can tell how important this is to her and that she wants to share it with everyone. and then here we are standing by her and she is doing better then us. it's just way sweet. alot of the time at least for me, i am way shy and i sometimes freak my self out of it which is stupid i know. but i am a lot better now. just trying to be better and keep getting better.
Oh, funny story about trying to be better. we were walking by the park this other day and this guy and his girlfriend started laughing at us and started talking... so retarded. and the guy was yelling stuff like "666 yeah satan. wooo.. Satan Compel you. muah, muah, muah hah hah..." oh braddah, it was weird and dumb, so we were like yup, satans compelling us pretty strong. So dumb, i was about to turn around and go hand them a card and then knock um one in the face. kus half these guys are chubby little mexicans. but next time that happens we probably will go back and talk to um. but its pretty crazy some of the stuff people say to us and yeah... but shoot i got to go. ok, i'll hopefully have some time to write some letters today.
Alright hope everything back home is good,
Love you guys
Elder Thomas
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