Hola Familia!
How's the ever present
school going? It is so weird to not be heading to school but I'm learning way
more than I probably ever did before, especially in Spanish. Life here in
Othello is great but of course can be tough as well. Because so many people are
out picking in the afternoon we don't have a ton of people to visit then. So we
tract on basically empty streets since everyone's in school or picking. It's
tough and long but we just keep going and have certainly seen blessing.
On Thursday, we had a pretty crazy experience. So we were stopping by trying to find an old investigator and found out he moved. As we were walking away suddenly a Mexican guy yells out from the house at us. We go over to talk to him and basically get told the what for. In a nutshell he told us that: the Catholic cross was different than the Christian cross, we were sinning because we were handsome and wore nice clothes, E. Kupferer had more sin than him but I had less so we were ok, we shoudn't look at women or think about drugs, and some other strange stuff.... Halfway through the conversation I began to question if I actually knew Spanish because it was soooo random but he was just a leetle crazy. (and I'm nearly certain he was very, very drunk). As we were about to leave he asked us our names and we told him a he got upset and told us he didn't understand English. Luckily we had a spiritual experience as well with a lesson with a family who had nearly been baptized. They already knew a lot and had been taught a ton so if they will pray, read, and receive an answer we should be great!!
So far we haven't met anyone who only speaks Mixteco although a few days ago we talked with someone who didn't seem to understand even Elder Kupferer so he may have been solo Mixteco.
On Friday we had a zone meeting where the Zone Leaders told us some things had been switched up in the mission. Apparently we are no longer able to wear t-shirts with logos on them for p-day or service. It was a bummer cuz of the BYU shirts and XC ones I've got but I guess rules are rules. That night we taught a lesson with a guy named who let us in while we were tracting. He seemed very receptive butyesterday we went by to talk with him and one of his kids told us he was drunk so we decided to go back later...
Friday was long but great. We got to do some service cleaning up the fairgrounds which was good. (in plain shirts mind you). That afternoon we had a lesson with probably our most promising investigator. We tracted into him a weekish ago and had taught him a lesson already. We taught the Plan of Salvation and is seemed to go very well so we invited him to be baptized on October 4th. I was able to do the invitation in Spanish and thankfully everything I'm pretty sure it was all correct. He said yes but said he didn't want to be baptized the next day so we had to quickly explain that we still had quite a bit of teaching to do still!
Yesterday we were able to have 3 investigators at church which was a blessing for sure! The guy who's on date came and then a family who are really good friends with some member came as well. The family seems really great and apparently already have been having fhe we just haven't been able to have a lesson with them because they were sick a lot of last week.
On Friday we had a zone meeting where the Zone Leaders told us some things had been switched up in the mission. Apparently we are no longer able to wear t-shirts with logos on them for p-day or service. It was a bummer cuz of the BYU shirts and XC ones I've got but I guess rules are rules. That night we taught a lesson with a guy named who let us in while we were tracting. He seemed very receptive butyesterday we went by to talk with him and one of his kids told us he was drunk so we decided to go back later...
Friday was long but great. We got to do some service cleaning up the fairgrounds which was good. (in plain shirts mind you). That afternoon we had a lesson with probably our most promising investigator. We tracted into him a weekish ago and had taught him a lesson already. We taught the Plan of Salvation and is seemed to go very well so we invited him to be baptized on October 4th. I was able to do the invitation in Spanish and thankfully everything I'm pretty sure it was all correct. He said yes but said he didn't want to be baptized the next day so we had to quickly explain that we still had quite a bit of teaching to do still!
Yesterday we were able to have 3 investigators at church which was a blessing for sure! The guy who's on date came and then a family who are really good friends with some member came as well. The family seems really great and apparently already have been having fhe we just haven't been able to have a lesson with them because they were sick a lot of last week.
Talk to you all soon,
you are all so great and keep up the good work!!
Love,
Elder Spackman
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