Hello Family,
How are you all? They gave us permission to go to Malecon. It will be fun to visit. We are bringing Elder Garcia’s camera. I don’t know how things will turn out. I will try to write again afterwards to see if I can send pictures of Elder Turista (Tourist). Brian and Joao will be going with us. The real purpose of this whole expedition is for Elder Garcia to buy his dirt cheap iPod, I will remind you. We are hoping Brian and Joao can help us buy it at a Latino price and not a gringo missionary price.
The young lady I told you about last week is progressing well. She told her family that she has decided to join the church. We haven’t had too many appointments with her because she has been busy moving all her stuff to her parent’s house and getting her children enrolled in new schools. We also learned that she may have a few problems with not working on Sunday, but that should not be too much of a problem.
We had a little issue with people letting themselves into our chapel by jumping the fence to celebrate 10 de Agosto (yet another Ecuadorian independence holiday). ¡Viva la fiesta!
Well, I hope to hear from you soon. Last week, I somehow got the letter from you from the same week. They gave us mail a little later in the week. You all seemed not so far away, only being about three days distant on the time-space continuum.
Love,
Your brother (who is already forgetting his AP Physics)
Feely: We found a young man who the missionaries had taught over a year ago named Guillermo. He is in a navy school. He had gained a testimony back with his first missionaries, but his mother had not let him join the church. His 18th birthday is in just a few days so we will see if he has the valentía (valiance?) to do what he knows is right. His situation kind of reminds me of Miguel Antonio. I think I wrote to you about him. Both these young men were quite involved in church activities for a long period of time, but because their parents did not give them permission to join the church, they could never really become integrated and eventually separated from the church. The bishop even told us that Miguel was always the first youth to arrive for sacrament meeting and was very active in seminary.
Actually, one time our zone leaders came to visit him and Miguel was able to remember a scripture before the zone leader. I think the main reason he fell away is because of the incredibly ugly situation at home. We quickly learned we could not teach him at his house because his mother and grandmother would not stop telling Miguel to stop lying to us and that he was a lost cause and so forth. He spends most of his time in the streets looking for stuff so he can try and escape from his family members. Since he fell away from the church, he has picked up a lot of bad habits from the people he is spending time with. These are bad habits that will keep him from joining later when he turns 18.
I have been thinking about him and about what he has gone through. How responsible will he be for what is happening in his life at the Judgement Bar at the Last Day? I am hoping that since Guillermo is a little better founded in a military school and has his life in order, he will be able to succeed where Miguel could not. We invited him to be baptized in September, but he said he will have to think about it. His mom used to like the church and the missionaries a lot until she suddenly did not want anything to do with the church. We learned this was due to Guillermo's soon-to-be father-in-law, a Testigo de Jehovah (Jehovah's Witness). Now Guillermo's mom wants him to be a JW. Luckily, he told us he does not care too much for them. He told us there is some weird stuff going on in their Bible. Je je. I am looking forward to talking to him on Thursday.
Feely: We found a young man who the missionaries had taught over a year ago named Guillermo. He is in a navy school. He had gained a testimony back with his first missionaries, but his mother had not let him join the church. His 18th birthday is in just a few days so we will see if he has the valentía (valiance?) to do what he knows is right. His situation kind of reminds me of Miguel Antonio. I think I wrote to you about him. Both these young men were quite involved in church activities for a long period of time, but because their parents did not give them permission to join the church, they could never really become integrated and eventually separated from the church. The bishop even told us that Miguel was always the first youth to arrive for sacrament meeting and was very active in seminary.
Actually, one time our zone leaders came to visit him and Miguel was able to remember a scripture before the zone leader. I think the main reason he fell away is because of the incredibly ugly situation at home. We quickly learned we could not teach him at his house because his mother and grandmother would not stop telling Miguel to stop lying to us and that he was a lost cause and so forth. He spends most of his time in the streets looking for stuff so he can try and escape from his family members. Since he fell away from the church, he has picked up a lot of bad habits from the people he is spending time with. These are bad habits that will keep him from joining later when he turns 18.
I have been thinking about him and about what he has gone through. How responsible will he be for what is happening in his life at the Judgement Bar at the Last Day? I am hoping that since Guillermo is a little better founded in a military school and has his life in order, he will be able to succeed where Miguel could not. We invited him to be baptized in September, but he said he will have to think about it. His mom used to like the church and the missionaries a lot until she suddenly did not want anything to do with the church. We learned this was due to Guillermo's soon-to-be father-in-law, a Testigo de Jehovah (Jehovah's Witness). Now Guillermo's mom wants him to be a JW. Luckily, he told us he does not care too much for them. He told us there is some weird stuff going on in their Bible. Je je. I am looking forward to talking to him on Thursday.
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