Ok so to first adress a few of the things that i got in family e-mails. Jacob and every other youth in the valley will continue to hug the edge of the road as long as the teacher remains, unfortunately we learn lots of bad habits when we should learn good ones. Also I have recieved a few e-mails where expiriences with jehova´s witnesses have been mentioned... You all have NO IDEA! i wish i could have talked to the missionary that came to the house and talked with grandma, they are good people and do what they think is right but unfortunately they are very lost. They don´t even believe that christ was resurected. They also try to tell us we are neglecting tons of commandments, which are either already completed with the sacrifice of Christ or are not done publicly, they gather lots of knowledge, but with out the holy ghost to dictate truth from falsities they get confused very quickly, and if they don´t get the chance to listen in this life well hopefully they do in the next, i don´t doubt it, they´re good people for the most part. Actually last night i talked with a taxi driver who is a missionary for the Jehova witness church (i don´t know exactly what their name is in english) it was a very civilized conversation, whereas normally, testigos will jump down your throat and not give you a chance to talk, but we had the oportunity to listen to what he was sharing with the people, and his desires are very similar to ours, he then listened intently as we shared the story of Joseph Smith. It was a good expirience, many missionaries are rude with testigos, i´ve always tried my hardest to be as nice as possible and i´m starting to see that its working, the witness missionaries that walk in our part of monterrey now start to smile and wave when they see us, where before they werent the friendliest people. I want to help them so that their labors are valid after this life, right now their desires are wonderful, but they are just lost.anyway, hold on a second while i hop down off my soap box...
Ok so this week we accomplished almost nothing, my companion got two of his wisdom teeth out, so we stayed in the house cause he couldn´t go out in the heat. We changed houses this week before he got them out, so we set up the house the first half of the first day, then the land lord came over with paint, so we moved everything and painted the house. it looks tonz better. we also have air conditioning now :) :) :) :) its AMAZING. I forgot what it was like to be in an air conditioned room. we did have a baptism this week which was awesome, the guy is from texas and naturally speaks englsh a bit better than spanish so we got to teach him in spanglish. it was cool to see him progress and make the necessary changes in his life. he about killed hermano Lozano (who baptised him) because he is very scared of water, after he went under he reached up and started flailing his fists, but he´s the happiest guy i´ve ever seen, (even though he´s convinced he almost drowned.
Anyway, thats all for this week ttyal. Love you all!
-Elder PadenAllen
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