Well we had another disappointing week
with investigators in the chapel... that's right... another week with
nobody.... That makes 9 weeks in a row. I feel bad for the people that
are missing out on all these blessings the Lord is just waiting to give
them but I can't make them show up so I don't know how to help them. But
I actually feel worse for my companion. This whole thing has been
really hard on him... He actually cried yesterday because he felt so bad
for the people and that they were missing out and not coming to church.
Also he feels like a failure because with so much time in the mission,
people expect him to have a lot of success and stuff like that and he
expects it as well and really wants it and feels bad because it just
hasn't happened. He says that all of this has been teaching him humility.
I want to be able to help him not be so down, but I think the only
thing that will help him with that is having people in the church....
anyways, that is a lot of what has been going on since yesterday.
Actually,
I have some good news about yesterday. We finally have a branch mission
leader! We haven't had one this whole time and that means it is kinda
hard to work well with the branch. But now we have one, he is a recently
returned missionary so he knows how all the mission stuff works so
hopefully we will be able to have some success.
I
made a recording that is in three parts that I will send (it is all in
Spanish by the way so I hope you can understand or at least have someone
tell you what it says, I don't know, it is getting kinda hard to talk
in English sometimes...). In it I talk about someone that we were going
to visit on Saturday but just to let you know he wasn't there when we
went because he had work, just so you know what's going on with him. We
are going to look for him this week and see how things work out.
This
week was a little better than the past couple that we have had but by
way of people in the church it was the same... I am really hoping the
work this week pays off and we will get to see some of the fruit of the
labor start to appear. Not only for the people here but for my companion and I.
It has been a little hard on us.
I am so sorry about Claudette. I
don't really know what to say about all that happened. I
am with mom on this whole death thing... it would be good if it just
took a break for a long while... I don't know, it seems that so much has happened at
home since I have been in the mission and it will be weird when I get
back, not that that is anytime soon but still...
-Elder Sampson
PS I am going to invite you all to guess what it is that we ate with some of the members ;)
PSS
If you couldn't
tell what they are... they are chapolines! (they are like grasshoppers
:) ) We ate a bunch of those fried in tacos :) they are actually pretty "
tasty;)" go very well with a little salsa lemon and salt; and have a nice
crunch :)
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