(Picture this week is Aaron wearing a "Mormon Helping Hands" vest)
Hello. Well this week was full of different things happening. We started the week out strong with three lessons on monday after p-day. It was great! then on monday night when we were on the way home I went to go contact a man. His heart was so hard. He told me that i knew only a few words in papiamento after I had pretty much taught him a whole first lesson. Man. we talked to him and he really didn't want anything. My compnaion was riding his bick behind me and I turned around to tell him something. He was trying to text while he was riding his bike...=) (texting is allowed for us here, becuase for many people it is cheaper than calling) so he was trying to text and I turned around and he thought something was wrong. So he squeezed the brake one handed and flipped right over the handlebars. =) the phone went flying and broke apart in a few pieces. I pulled his bike off of him as he faked he was crying. Then I looked at the handlebars and the left handlebar was bent down about 5 inches. I started laughing my head off. Then I went and got the phone as he was just sitting on the ground laughing. I got the phone and a little boy ran up and asked if he crashed then asked to ride our bikes but we wouldn't let him. Then he asked to see our phone. So I handed it too him he flipped through the menu... then started to run. I grabbed his shirt and took the phone away from him then we went home...=) Then next day we lost a lot of time taking the bike to get it fixed. Someone stole our lights last week as well...=( Then this friday we had pretty much everything fall through. NOTHING... so we went to just try to contact. IT STARTED POURING. We just continued and trying to talk to a guy as he ran under a shelter we talked to everyone under the shelter. Then we left in the rain because we had to get money for the bus the next day. So we went to the ATM... we left a little pool in the ATM room. =) then went to Wendy's to get the change split up. So I ordered two burgers and two frostys and while I was ordering my companion started to talk to this couple. Then as I was waiting for our food the power just shut off. Everything went out. I gave my new bike light to the workers to finish making our burgers and then went over to talk with my companion and the two people. He was teaching them a first lesson...=) in spanish... but he was talking to them and then she asked where she could get the book of mormon. Then elder johnson said we would bring one by and she asked if she could have the one in his hand. he said "no this one is wet we'll bring you a dry one. she said no I want that one. So we gave it to her and got her address and talked a little more to find that they were going to puerto rico to play baseball in a tournament. Then we left and as we left she said "please come over I want to learn more" so we assured her we would. we went home and when we got home noticed our perfect new investigator lives...in the sisters area. two streets over from our area boundary... MAN! But we left and then said our prayers and I asked for the power to come on so we could sleep in comfort. After the prayer as I pulled my sheets up... the air conditioner clicked on...I said "God answers prayers elder" and then it clicked off and he said "on his own time"... Then the next day we had the beach cleanup and then went to the church to clean up and then to a members house then went out to teach. YESTERDAY!!! We woke up, went to church, they had cake and everything after for me. =) sang happy birthday in English spanish dutch and papiamento. Woohoo! then after we went home and found that the sisters had broken into our apartment and put a bunch of balloons in. Then we ate and started our Four hour suicide.... 4 hours of finding time is a long time. but we started and actually we were able to teach four people. We ended with four new investigators and then had one lesson after with two kids of a member that arent members. It was great and we made them investigators too... So on my birthday I made more investigators finded for more time and taught more lessons than I did in whole weeks in puerto rico. I Loved it. Then this morning we wake up to find out our laundromat is closed so we had to take our clothes to the sisters place to wash it. Now we are emailing.... Tomorrow we have district meeting and president interviews. So tomorrow hopefully I get my package but dont know. Then tomorrow we are having one of the AP's come to monitor our teaching... aaaahhhh. Then on wednesday president is letting us celebrate the 30th year of this mission by playing sports and a big BBQ all day long. WOohoo!
This week will be great! Starting it off with two really good lessons tonight! We are teaching the quit smoking lesson tonight Pray for us!
I don't know if I have grown much past 5' 9"
I Love the Gospel.
We also had a funny lesson with a man that told us that the Book of Mormon is just taken out of the Bible so me and my smart alek attitude pulled out 2 nephi 29 and he again said it was taken out of the bible. It was pretty funny!
I Love you all! Can't wait to read some more letters =) Tomorrow!
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