On pday last week we played soccer here at the stake center in sonsonate. Super fun!! None of the other gringos like to play except like one so it was me and him with all the latinos and some kids that came off the street. It was super fun. But I got a nice burn on my face. It is no fun so I don’t know what I could do for that.
Elder T, our new zl who is standing next to me in a pic I will send is the coolest most awesome person that will ever walk the face of the earth except for probably Christ you guys and my future wife and family, and maybe santa clause. Anyways he is just awesome. But that was last Monday and we found an investigator named WL who is a jw and she wanted to learn about the gospel. I think I already told you about her last week. She was back and forth and didn't know what to think about us mormons. I’ll talk later in the email about her.
On Tuesday, studies were hard in the morning as always. . . but I try everyday to be humble and learn from him what I can. Last week I told you that I was feeling the chikengunya return, but evidently it was seekay. That is how you pronounce it not how you spell it. It is first pain in the body and then a huge rash and sometimes a fever and a lack of energy. I got the pain, the rash and a lack of energy but it was mild except for the rash, the rash was bad on Monday and Tuesday. But Tuesday morning I had like no energy and so I drank some of the zip fizz that was in my package and got some advil that you sent me as well! Those things were inspired for you to send me. I felt great the rest of the day and seguired mejor despeus.
There is a familia who are recent converts and the father used to drink. Last Sunday we saw him drinking on the side of the road and talked to him. We met with the family on Tuesday night and he wasn’t there so we taught the rest of the fam about the plan of salvation. We had just finished the lesson when the dad walked in. They are an awesome family. He sat down and looked at us and told us he wanted to learn more about the gospel that he had a desire to learn and read the scriptures. It was sweet, but as I looked into his eyes I could tell what was up. He knew he was falling back into his drinking habits and wasn’t being a good example to his family or daughters. I felt in my heart and knew in my mind from the spirit that he needed help to guard from falling back into drinking and so without his family knowing he asked us to help him in that subtle manner, but only through the spirit did I discern what was the real problem. I thought of in the scriptures when it says, and they did discern his thoughts or whatever. That was me! It was cool.
The sunset that night was absolutely the most beautiful thing ever. The clouds are so awesome here and the colors of the sky are sweet. The light bounced off of the clouds and lit everything up. Extremely cool!! Wednesday I was really homesick and missing school Richland bombers basketball and boating and hiking and trampoline ball and my buddies and Wilson and Benson and Lilly and the food from home and my bed and everything so I looked at the fotos that I have and decided I needed a good cry, I just left it all out.
That night we got Pupusas again. I don’t have my other planner from the first transfer and so I don’t know the exact count because I have it tallied but I have eaten around 140 pupusas so far. That is average amount. I eat 8 to 10 pupusas every time. We go to these ladies when we buy them and they are sooo fun! They are Catholic and they laugh all the time. One is really old and the others are like 30 to 40 years old. There are 3 of them and a joven named leonel! They are a party.
Thursday we found a part member less active family with a daughter and father who are not members and a mom and son who are. We took them to church on Sunday. It was sweet!!! Teaching them we start outside their house and we were with 3 turkeys, 3 dogs, 3 cats, 8 kittens, 4 parrots and like 10 chickens. Thats how a lot of the lessons are. Turkeys are huge by the way and the sound they make is really loud! jajaja.
That day we had a lesson with WL and we had been teaching her about the book of mormon but during that lesson she had so many doubts and told us she couldn't believe it was true and it was tough. Super sad! She had read and prayed and I could see in her eyes that she had felt the spirit. But she rejected it. Super devastating. AWWWHHHHH!! Why are people not willing to believe! GAH. But that is okay. She dropped us this week.
Friday I had exchanges with Elder Hallman in his AREA!! Soooo great. I got to really see how good my Spanish has become. His Spanish is still getting there so I carried the lesson and stuff. It was sooo fun!! Super fun and helping people come to Christ was great. Inviting to baptism and everything. Exchanges are my favorite part of the week! Saturday is a blur. My comp in a lesson handed the talking and teaching over to me so I had got five words out before he cut me off and taught something that I evidently wasn’t going to teach. It was so hard to open my mouth after that and teach, he just sometimes doesn't understand that he really just puts a knife through me sometimes. So that day was a trial to not be frustrated.
Patience is the ability to endure suffering and trial or delay without frustration, anger, anxiety or evil thoughts. I tried to quitar the frustration form my life this week. Sunday was tough too. There were so many times. . . . it's hard to not just be frustrated. Actions speak louder than words. I became frustrated with him that day during church and was soooo over him and wanted to quit and be done. I knew I had to do something. We went home afterward and I went into our room and prayed. Poured out my heart to God and out all my care frustration and everything on Christ. He knows me and had to deal with the pharisees and sadducees when he was a perfect teacher and being, and I not a perfect teacher or human am here with my comp, who is not nearly as bad as the pharisees or sadducees I’m pretty sure. I just dumped everything on Christ in that prayer and felt him take it. I felt the burden made light on my shoulders. Incredible.
Last night we had carne asada and sausage and a baked potato filled with cheese with the familia C and it was the best meal of my life. Sooo fun! This morning we played futbol with the elder and priests in the ward. We got up at 5:45 and went to the capilla to play. So great! I love you all and am trying to still be good but the transfer ends on Nov 20th and then I’ll probably train!! Crazzyy stuff!!! Love you all and keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Elder Ostler
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