I have talked with a return missionary who served for some time in Cabo. Its a little bit poorer in that area, and Im sure you werent even in the poorer areas. But what you described sounds like a lot of my areas. The feelings you described are a lot of what I had when I first got here, but as I got used to it, I realized that these people didnt need so much to be truly happy. All they needed was their family and in all cases, the Gospel. It was, and is, a very humbling experience, but one that teaches you whats really important in life.
Soooooo Jaoquin got baptized. It was like the coolest thing Ive ever seen. My comp baptized him on a chair, since he cant really balance with the one leg and all. After his baptism, he wanted to bear his testimony, which was a surprise cause he is more of a shy kinda guy. He made his way up to the front of everyone and bore a short testimony on the truth and how thankful he was for the golden plates. I love this guy. Now we are going to start working on his 5 daughters. They avoid us like the plague, so it should be fun.
Other than that, it was just a normal week. Pretty boring right? We went with one of our progressing investigators, that should be getting baptized the 11th, to her sisters house to give her a blessing cause she was sick and see if she would like to talk to us. She gladly accepted us and launched into how she tried to kill someone one time and how much she hated this person, and then how her husband died about a year ago, and then about how she didnt feel clean, and on and on. When she stopped talking, it was kinda like "well... where should we start?" The lesson went great and she accepted baptism for one week after her sister. She also has a 16 year old son that sounds golden.
Our baptism planned for this week fell because she got sick and couldnt come to church, but we may pull something off cause we finally talked to the mom of a young man who we have been teaching for months, who wants to get baptized but his mom wants to wait. She seemed cool with it, but she says she will talk to his dad. His name is Manual and prayers on that one would be appreciated. Most youth I see that have to wait as long as he does usually loose interest, but he has remained firm in everything this whole time. He says he wants to serve a mission too.
Well sorry for the shortness, but you know how it is. I had a good week, and hope everyone else did as well. Take care and be good. Paz
Love,
Elder Kitterman
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