It's
crazy to think that I've been a missionary for three months now. It
hasn't really felt that long. I'm slowly getting a hang of the Spanish,
meaning that I can usually understand most people and most of the
conversation, and I can usually contribute. I'm obviously still working
on it all, but things are slowly but surely coming.
This
week was a little crazy. We are losing a bunch of our investigators,
but we are finding new interested people all over, so I'm not sure what
to think. Also, we had a super epic lightning storm last night. It was
beautiful, but we had to stay inside because we didn't want to die.
And
now, this week on Contact of the Week: This week's contact is basically
just a bunch of generic contacts that we've had. There are missionaries
from the Jehovah's Witnesses (Testigos de Jehova, or TJs), and a lot of
people confuse us with them. Nearly every contact, we hear something
like this:
Contact:Wait, are you Jehovah's Witnesses? Because I talked to them a little bit and they were very weird.
Us:
No, we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It's a
different church. If you see a missionary without a nametag like this,
they're not from our church.
Contact:
So . . . you're not Jehovah's Witnesses . . . because they are really
weird, and they don't celebrate birthdays or anything, and I don't want
to join a weird church like that.
Us: No, we;re not them. We're completely different. Would you like to hear our message?
The TJs are a big headache for us because they usually harm our reputation, but I usually just have to laugh.
Anyway, I'm out of time today (I swear, the email hour every P-day is the shortest hour of the week!), so I'll have to end.
Thanks for all your prayers, letters, and support!
Lots of love from Nuevo Laredo!
These are the pictures Jakob sent today:
These are the pictures Jakob sent today:
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