"Once there was a magical place where it never rained........................
Its very hot here I'll tell you that.
On other stuff I'm loving it here! We have lots of progressing investigators and we have 3 baptisms scheduled for April 8th and we are very excited.
Here's a story about someone we met the other week: So we had our "bring your friends to church" day 2 Sundays ago right? So the Saturday before we went around with a bunch of members to re-invite the people they had invited. We went to one of our investigators who wasn't even progressing, and invited them to church yet again, basically thinking "if they don't come to church we cant keep wasting our time with them." We invited them, and started talking to one of the people that was in their house. His name is Victor. Victor is a man who had moved to Azua a few days prior to look for a job, and his wife is the daughter of our investigators, so he is staying with them. We hadn't even talked for 5 minutes when we had to leave, and we asked him "hey do you want to go to church tomorrow with us?" And he thought about it for 2 seconds and was like, "Yeah! Sure why not."
The next day we had many many people in church because of all the people the members had invited. Guess who showed up. VICTOR. He had walked 29 minutes (he timed it apparently) to get to the chapel, and brought his primary-aged daughter with him. They could only stay for sacrament meeting but they both said they liked it and the next week they'd stay longer. We were pretty excited and we put an appointment for the following Wednesday. On Wednesday we only had 15 minutes to talk with them before we had to leave to go to a meeting, but we left him the Restoration pamphlet and told them we'd be back on Ssaturday to talk more.
Saturday comes around. And we start the lesson. We ask him if he was able to read the ONE page we left for him to read. Come to find out... he read the whole thing, AND marked it up how I imagine an apostle marks his scriptures. THIS PAMPHLET WAS FULL. Questions, comments, numberings on important stuff, you name it. I'm pretty sure I had a smile on my face the entire lesson. I haven't taught anyone who's ever done that before. When we talked about the Book of Mormon he basically just taught us what it was, and then without even us talking about it, he asked. "Tomorrow in church can you guys get me a copy of the Book of Mormon? I mean if there's extras that is." I reassured him that there were PLENTY of extras and we were going to ask him if he'd like a copy anyways. Then he got to church yesterday, and brought his wife, and his 2 kids. They stayed for sacrament meeting and gospel principles, where we talked about the scriptures! It was super cool and they are going to progress SO MUCH. They are the "Seekers of the Truth."
Its good to be a missionary.
Anyways, I hope everyone has had a good week! Hopefully its warming up for you! Its nice and toasty here. Nos veremos en 5 meses!
Elder Larkin
(The pictures are of me and Steven. One of the Priests in the branch. Hes chill)
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