September 25, 2012

Church is better.  We still haven't gotten any investigators there, but they had the highest attendance in like 4 months this week.  They are mostly couples and families, and there are tons of part member families where the wife works hard, supports the kids and family, and goes to church while the husband drinks all day.  We struggle a ton with keeping them active, and the husbands have all already been taught and want nothing to do with the church.  Some of the spanish units are pretty big, it's just that ours is struggling a lot.  We are allowed to go to the temple once every 3 months on p-days.  Most of the kids move on to English units, if they stay active.  All of the youth and primary go to everything other than sacrament in English already.  I at the very least met the elders quorum president this week, and he came for the first two hours of church (he hasn't been in 2+ months) .  There are a few members who do do most of the work, and the rest don't really do much of anything.  Several have gone inactive because they were given callings.  We are at the very least starting to see some measure of success, and have seen a lot of miracles.  I went on exchanges with one of the assistants this week and we were doing enough work that Satan decided to intervene.  We had an experience a la Joseph Smith in jail, and the assistant was actually in the process of raising his arm to the square to rebuke this guy when someone else came up and chased him off.  It wasn't very fun.  Last night we decided to try an investigator that we had stopped teaching and came across his kids at home, and after teaching them, they told us that they had been praying for someone to help them know which church to go to.  It was really cool.  The work is still really slow here, but it is at the very least starting to pick up.


We got someone to commit to a date a week and a half ago but he hasn't come to church so he lost the date.  We at the very least got a few less actives to  come to church.  I have been plenty healthy, and so has my companion.  We had a super awkward sunday school where the teacher thinks that her husband is enganando with another mujer and she came up to us and asked us to teach because she hadn't prepared anything.  We left to go get the manuals and then when we got back she had gotten the class to open all their manuals to the law of chastity and basically forced us to teach that.  Fun times.  Also, since the viejo asked, my companions name is elder villalobos.  He is from Orem, but his dad is from Mexico and his mom is from Puerto Rico.  He speaks pretty good Spanish.