So, I would love to
start this letter by telling all of you just why I love old people so much.
This past week we were
visiting a less active couple in the ward. Turns out they've just been on
vacation/sick/unmotivated, but are now going to attend regularly. After talking
a little while, we tell them we would like to share a scripture with them
before we leave.
Here's where it gets
great.
I tell her I want to
read 1 Nephi 6 (or something like that....I don't remember) and that it's short
so it won't take that much time. She then turns to 2 Nephi 6 and starts to mark
everything. And by everything I mean the Chapter heading, as well as the footnotes.
She just starts to color it all like a coloring book. I then inform her that I
said first Nephi, and not second Nephi, to which she gently nods her head and
continues highlighting..... I then repeat no.....FIRST Nephi....at which point
she realizes that she is now in second Nephi, and proceeds to move on to third
Nephi.........at this point I'm just laughing internally mostly because it
looks like she has painted two pages of her Book of Mormon completely yellow,
when Elder Slade says..... "Augh actually maybe it'd just be better if we
decide to go to D&C 4" so then she turns to D&C 6 and proceeds to
paint that page as well.
Elder Slade and I are
both trying to hide our laughter now, and we politely inform her that we said 4
and not 6.
She then finishes
highlighting all of Chapter 6 and says "Oh......well it's all good
anyway"
And finally she was
able to highlight all of the scripture we had chosen.......all in all it took a
solid 15 minutes of explaining to get her to the right scripture. Hahaha one of
my favorite lessons so far!!!
Other than that we've
got 5 people who should get baptized this week! Javier, his kids, Marianna, and
Godofreddo.
And this past week we
put a goal to find 17 new investigators, and by the end of the week we found
10! Not too shabby!!!
Other than that, I
hope you'll all be happy to know that I'm staying another change in Rimac with
Elder Slade! I couldn't be happier about it!!!!
I'm doing great, working
hard, and having fun!!!
Love you guys!!!!!
-Elder Winn
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