Bonjour! Welcome to the new month of February!
This past week was filled with good things, too much to talk
about in this one email haha, so I'll have to take out the best parts.
Our investigator Adrienne is progressing like none other; she
accepts all the commitments we give her, and she continues to read the Book of
Mormon, it's crazy how fast we've been going through the lessons with
her!
In terms of weather, it got warm REALLY fast as the week
went by, until it got cloudy on Saturday, and on Sunday it was like a mini
Hurricane Katrina: fierce winds and heavy rain! Thankfully we were in church
for most of the storm, so we missed the worst of it.
On Thursday I was on exchanges with my district leader Elder
Cannon in my area, and since he's a Spanish-speaking missionary I a few
opportunities while we were out on the streets to see him talk to people in
Spanish. It was funny to see their reaction to him talking because they
probably weren't expecting a white kid from Washington state to speak clear
Spanish, so for a moment they almost looked perplexed to see him speaking
Spanish haha.
On Saturday Elder Morton and I talked to Michael the
Archangel that we met at the library. Seriously, we really did talk to a man
whose name is Michael, and calls himself Saint Michael the Archangel. He kept
offering us his "antidote" that, with the power of God, can
heal any ailment, disease, cancer or medical disorder. He also holds a towel on
one side of his face because he thinks that there are poisonous gases that come
out from the cracks in the sidewalk and damage your skin. He said that ever
since he started taking the antidote every day, he hasn't gone to the dentist
for 6 years (and believe me when I say that you can tell he hasn't gone to the
dentist in a long time!), and because he told us about his antidote there would
be assassins that would be sent to take us out.....wow. At first his
proposal seemed too far fetched, and I thought that he was trying to sell us
drugs, and I didn't believe him the whole time, especially when he said,
"As soon as you stick this stuff on your tongue, you'll feel happy
immediately!" But when he actually showed us his "antidote" it
was actually just a pouch of natural tea haha. So I accepted his antidote, and
once we were out of sight I threw the pouch away. I'm glad we got out of there
when we did haha, it was crazy! Nice guy, but I'm not interested.
We contacted a referral named Jose who's obsessed with the
Bible. He used to be deep into drugs and alcohol apparently, but now he's over
that and he wants to give himself to God. We'll see how the lessons go with him
as time goes on...
Well, there's Southern California for you haha, very
diverse, and a good learning experience for anyone, I love it here! I love the
people in our ward! They are so Christlike; they do everything they can to make
sure they are able to attend sacrament meeting every Sunday and renew their
covenants by partaking of the sacrament. I hope you value and see the
importance of attending church, particularly sacrament meeting. It is there
that we can be spiritually refueled. Love everyone, even if you don't know
them. I didn't know Michael, but I was friendly to him and had a good
conversation with him, it was great!
I love you all, enjoy this new month and make the most of
it!
Elder Ruiz
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