A Very Happy District Meeting

Dear family,

Great News!  This week I received a whopping .9 cm stack of letters más 2 paquetes (plus 2 packages)!  It was a very happy district meeting.  I’ve taken to singing the Mail Song from Blue’s Clues as the Zone Leaders arrive with the mail.  ♫ Here’s the mail, it never fails...

Well, this week we found a new investigator named Allison.  She is a friend of Génesis. She was studying medicine until she suffered from kidney failure.  She has quite a few medical problems, but has been very easy to teach.  She is really intelligent.  It is nice not to see that glazed-over look in an investigators eyes as you try to explain the Book of Mormon.  "So what you’re saying is the Book of Mormon is a summary of the Bible?" That’s what most people think after we explain where the Book of Mormon comes from.

Junior Apolinario, left

We had an unfortunate gossip incident this week with our little member friend named Junior.  He has a lot of free time on his hands, so he always accompanies us so we can go visit homes with only sisters.  One of the down sides of teaching so many lady investigators, we learned this week, is that Junior falls in love with all of them. Whenever we need to find him, we just go looking in all the homes of our investigators and he always turns up.  

Anyway, he is not all there, so when the ladies did not find him all that interesting, he started spreading stories about how Elder Castro was in love with them and was plotting with some of the members of the ward to come back and marry our investigators. He started sharing his little stories and things kind of got ugly between several of the ward members.  We had to get the stake counselor involved and things are all settled now, but I am afraid we will not be doing anymore visits with Junior.  The ironic part, though, is before any of this had happened I was assigned to give a message on chismes (gossip) for the spiritual part of Faro this week.  Elder Castro definitely made good use of that opportunity.  I found a pretty good scripture in 1 Tim 5:11-15 that suited our situation well.

We went to the Mall del Sur today and talked with some of my old missionary buddies, so hopefully next week I’ll be able to get some pictures of the first weeks on my mission to you guys.  Today was Elder Castro’s penúltimo (2^nd to last) P-day.  Just 12 days left before he flies back to Bógota.  

I was very glad to get updated on all of your adventures since Mother’s Day.  I really like the book you sent, Mom.  A lot of cool dudes talking about prayer.  I have been able to get some good material from it.

Well, I’ll talk to you next week.

Love, Grant