And anyways, I have had a wonderful week. After a
baptism is when you have to go find new people, which is hard. Its nice
because there are people to see and potentials to visit, and lots of
things to do. The word tracting doesn't really exist here at all. I've
read in a few of my friends e-mails about tracting a bit. Well we
don't do that. We can like knock on people's doors to ask about
neighbors we are trying to visit, but that is as tractful as it gets.
We just Open our mouths and speak to people. That's always fun. We
got a few new investigators this week which is good because we haven't
found any for a few weeks. We'll see who can progress the fastest right
now.
The fastest progressor we have is a girl named
Rosemery. She dropped off of the face of the earth for a few weeks.
Her kids were baptized in March. She just wasn't progressing as fast
for a lot of strange reasons. She finally opened the door for us about a
week or two ago. She even came to church! Which took a lot of courage
on her part because she came with Pablo, the guy she supposedly broke up
with a while ago. We used to hate him. Tate and the elder before him
would call him the devil. But everybody has potential, and even the
devil was once an angel of light. Pablo hurt his leg, so that should
keep him grounded. We'll get her baptercized. The kids are awesome,
and its just super amazing that they all came to church. Also, their
dog reminds me of a mix of Jasmine and Daphne.
Then Saturday we went to the temple with the Flores
family! They are amazing! I forgot my camera today, so I really do
have good pictures to share (and some good pictures of Houston downtown)
but I have yet to get them sent because my camera is forgotten. Please
forgive me. But the temple was really quite amazing! It always is, but
this was an interesting trip. There was one guy worker there, and one
of the first things he said is that missionaries can't get in the water.
We were at zone conference a while ago and an elder brought up how in
the temple they wouldn't let them baptize girls, and president was just
like "That's kind of dumb." He's had conversations with the temple
president and stuff, and it doesn't make sense that you can baptize
someone in the font at the church, but not at the temple. And not even
being allowed to enter the water? That's some crazy interpretation of a
D&C 61. The temple worker was just rough with everybody, the
family didn't mind though which was good. So we all complained about it
in the car (Bishop, wife, and me and Tate). Yet it was still a good
experience. We then went to a chinese buffet. I'm going to be super
sad when I leave this area and don't have a cool bishop like Bishop
Martin. He's super great.
Lets see, I'm doing great, we went to church
yesterday, I played organ again (with super hard hymns... but Hispanos
can't notice). I don't really know what else I can say here, except
that I realized that I haven't gotten an e-mail from Bethany since she
got a boyfriend. Oh, and I don't think I ever mentioned this, but
yesterday was the baptism of an older couple in the other elder's area.
They have a crazy story. They came to church and were suddenly super
ready to get baptized, just by coming to church and loving everything.
They came twice, they were unsure if hermano's medical coffee (which
turned out had no coffee whatsoever) would let him get baptized, they
needed to get married, so they were working on that when the third
Sunday, they suddenly couldn't find him anymore. Well what had happened
is that Francisco (the hermano) had been stabbed 20 times by his
step-son Saturday night, and somehow he survived, until he finally got
baptized yesterday. Its just a crazy story. They should make the
district a reality TV show. Probably better than any other show out
there.
Well on that note, I'm outta here. I'm gonna go
preach the gospel, or if I ever become a zone leader, preach the gospel
to a bunch of 18 - 23 year old white young adults. I'd rather preach to
Hispanics. But I digress, I love you all and the gospel, and it is the
power of salvation unto every man that believeth. To the Jew first, and
also to the Greek. I don't know about Romans and Barbarians though.
This scripture does after all teach us that the gospel only goes to
Jews and Greeks. But now I'm just being sarcastic and typing words as
they come out of my head. I love y'all!
Elder David Austin Barlow
Gracias. Le extraño. Doy gracias a Dios por esta pictura. Quiero
imprimir esta pictura para dejar en mi apartamento. Ella esta muy
bonita, y pienso que ella es perfecta. Y yo no tengo otras personas
para enviar correo, entonces estoy escribiendo estas palabras en Español
sobre ella. Gracias otra vez, y me gusta esta pictura. Te quiero
Daphne! Y tambien ustedes mama y papa. Yo tengo una carta para el dia
del padre, pero no cabo en el buson en nuestro complejo. Estoy buscando
un buson para enviar esta carta para papa, pero creo que voy a enviar
mi carta por el dia del padre en Deciembre o algo asi.
English Translation:
Thank
you. I miss her. I thank God for this picture. I want to print this picture to
leave in my apartment. She is very pretty, and I think she's perfect. And I
have other people to send mail, then I'm writing these words in Spanish on it.
Thanks again, and I like this picture. I love Daphne! And also you mom and dad.
I have a letter for Father's day, but not out in the mailbox in our complex. I
am looking for a Mailbox to send this letter to Dad, but I think I will send my
letter the day of the father man December or something.
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