Hello!
Hope all is well back home for everyone! This week was pretty great! Just some highlights I guess! We played charades as a missionary family night, and we had to act out Old Testament prophets, that was fun! I got Elijah. That was fun to act out hahahahaha. Anyways, we also got to go to the doctor again for me! Surprise surprise surprise! It was fantastic! Hahaha not so actually.
We taught Axel our most progressing investigator. He is doing awesome! He is almost done with Second Nephi! Boo yah! He likes the Book of Mormon a lot, and likes church too! He is pretty set for his baptismal date for the end of this month! Yeah!!!! We taught him this week about obedience, the Law of Chastity, and the Word of Wisdom. I was talking about a month ago with some other younger missionaries who mentioned the fact that they really dislike teaching the Law of Chastity because it gets "awkward." Not so. It is only awkward if you make it awkward. Elder Orozco and I rocked that lesson. These commandments are so important! And the investigators we have need to know how important they are and what they even are! It was great!
The greatest thing that happened this week was we got to have a Skype Lesson! Our very first one for the both of us! Guess who it was with? My Aunt and Cousin! Yeah! It was incredible! The spirit was so strong! The tools we have these days in the mission and around the world are so powerful! Now we can teach anyone around the world if we have WIFI!
Anyways, the low of this week was when we went to visit Gina our less-active/ investigator. She suffers from severe depression, and has told me on several occasions about the fact that she has thoughts about taking her own life. This week it was extremely serious, the worst I have seen it since I have been here. We sat and talked with her for a while, and we offered to give her a blessing, and she said yes, and asked me to do it. The next morning we had Ward Council in which we explained the situation in full detail to everyone that was there. The bishop was already aware of the situation, but there was more that the entire ward needed to be doing for her. It was great to see everyone pitch in with ideas, and with help to give to her. They made some plans that now I believe will help her so much. We also made plans with her to call her twice a day, and try to visit her every other day. She needs help! Ay! It was hard to see her in the shape she was in. She is an incredible Sister! Her two kids are awesome! One of them basically is Spiderman.
This week, let's see. I also finished all of Jacob, Enos, Omni, Words of Mormon, and Mosiah in the Spanish Book of Mormon. Fantastic reading! #ILOVETHEBOM!!! I have really noticed a difference in the level of reading I now have in Spanish. It is such a blessing to see that our Heavenly Father truly does bless us with the talents we need to accomplish His work.
During Elder's Quorum yesterday, the Hermano Gomez was rebuking every single thing that the teacher said. It was very interesting, because literally every word that the teacher said was pure truth, and so it got very heated in there between all of the Elders and the Hermano Gomez. Some of us missionaries who were sitting farther in the back were smiling and trying not to laugh. It was hard. We were talking about baptism, and about the age that kids are baptized at, and he was not agreeing with anything!
Other than that, this week was pretty fantastic! Thanks for the support and prayers!
Your favorite missionary in So. Cal!
Elder Weston Scot
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