Monday , April 18, 2011
This was a good week. I´m contributing a lot more to the lessons and we found a lot of good investigators this week. Unfortunately none of them went to church, but several seemed very interested. That´s one of the things about working here, very few of the people owill reject us outright, they´re just too nice. So it´s important to find out if they are really interested or just humoring us so that we don´t waste time. One of our inverstigators, Jose, we found drunk in the street one day while walking to an appointment. He yelled at us from across the street, then invited us over to his house. Later, when we were in the neighborhood we decided to go visit him. It was different from what we expected, he was not drunk and very friendly and told us about how he had been visiting lots of different churches but had never found one that seemed right to him. He also told us a story about when he was in the army, a random person gave him a new testament on his birthday, and that was the only present he got from anybody. There are definitely people who are prepared to hear the Gospel here, and our lessons with him have gone really well. Jaime and his sister essentially told us not to come back. We think it´s because of their mother, who visits them a lot and is very Catholic. That was a real bummer of an appointment when they told us they didn´t want to listem any more. I´m learning a lot about teaching and about being comfortable around people. I still have a long way to go but at least I feel like I´m progressing. Tomorrow I´ll have been in Colombia for a month. The time is going by quickly, much more quickly than in the MTC. I´m pretty sure it´s because we´re working all the time. It´s hard to know if we´re being successful or not, sometimes missionary work is very self-directed. that is, the effort we put in may or may not be related to the success we have, and sometimes that´s discouraging. But this week was good. jugos...this week I had mango con leche and maracuya (???, not sure how it´s spelled), and I made some more of my own of mango in the house. Soooo good. Ben