Yeah. So lets just get the important stuff out of the way first. Jimmer.
We got breakfast that morning and ended up seeing the Draft on the TV there. We saw picks like 7 thru 14 or something. When I saw that Jimmer went to the Kings, I almost broke down and cried. No doubt the Jazz wanted him. And now he's on the Kings. I can't stand the Kings. I ridicule the Kings constantly. And now I have to turn back just to see my hero play ball. But that's okay. I'm not a Kings fan. I'm a Jimmer fan. And we are getting Jimmer Jazz jerseys made anyways! haha. No we're not. But that would be great.It cracks me up that you got season tickets. Elder Nelson's dad wrote him that in the 2 days after the draft, the Kings sold more season tickets than they had the year before. hahaha. Kings fans. So conditional. But as for the Jazz, I'm pleased with what happened. Enes Kanter and Alec Burk. Lets make it happen boys!
I had one of the best weeks of my mission this last week. We had so much fun and worked stinkin hard! Wednesday we went to the Holy Cave which was hilarious because of the tour guide was sooooo funny! It was a legit spelunking tour that took us pretty far in for about 30-45 minutes. We gotta do it when you guys come. The guy found this cave in the 80's and he's named all sorts of things that look like Catholic statues and stuff. Mama Mary, Santo Nino, 12 apostles, Baby Jesus, Holy Cross. The guy was so funny. "These are the challenging moments in life!" He kept saying that. All English tour. Loved it.
Then we found a golf course in our area while we were tracting the other day and we went to go check out how much it would cost us to do a round of golf on P Day. Well, they just gave us a bucket of some balls and told us we could hit. So we hit a couple balls and went back today. 20 pesos only for a bucket of balls. Me and Elder Nelson were rippin em. The funniest thing was that there were cows grazing all over the driving range and my companion hit a cow with a ball. haha. It was hilarious.
Then on our way home we stopped behind this car and I looked in my rearview mirror to see this girl come screaming up behind me on her motorcycle. She clearly wasn't looking and then she noticed me, turned, tried to correct, overcorrected and then ate cement SO HARD! Her motor flipped and bounced off her back. Miraculously she wasn't hurt too bad. Just a twisted ankle. But we got out and checked on her. Then I looked around and realized where this was happening. In the exact same spot where Elder Deguidoy crashed the car 6 months ago. Right in front of the elementary school where all the kids were out at recess and watching us. The kids were yelling, "The Mormons crashed again!" Then some guy said it was my fault. But I got saved cuz some drunk dude came out and said, "I saw the whole thing!" Funny enough, he was blind in one eye. I find that a humorous irony. But he told them what happened and we left. The girl was fine. We see her sometimes. She's pretty embarassed to see us though.
The other day we went to see Angel and we found out that her sister was at the house. The one that called and yelled at her. She also got really mad when she found out that we were teaching her brother. So we go over to meet her and see if we can soften some hearts or something. We get over there and the whole family is there. We shake everyone's hand. I get to the sister to shake her hand and she doesn't look up from her book. Actually she was reading the dictionary. She clearly had just grabbed it so she could look busy. Anyway, long story short, she didn't shake our hands, look at us, anything. She thought she would be the family hero and oppose the Mormon missionaries not knowing that her whole family loves us. haha. Its okay though. Her mom ripped her a new one and then the next time she asked some questions and sat in on the lesson. So things are better now. She's friendly. I think she thought that we just talk bad about the Catholic church. I never even say the word Catholic when I teach. So...her bad.
Long story short for the week, Elder Culango and I really worked hard this week and tore it up. We got lured into some Bible Bashes and turned things around really well, found some great investigators, made some good friends, have some really nice progressing investigators, improving ourselves, looking for ways we can help the Branch better, did some Family Home Evenings and just did the work the way the Lord wants it done. That way when this transfer is over we can dust off our hands, look what we did and say, "Dang boy! That's how we do it in Camotes!"
So yeah. I'm just staying focused and just keep on keepin.
Love you guys.
Brandon
