Ok really I dont know where the time has gone. We're on week 4 here in Camino Carrasco, Elder Silva is going home in 2 weeks, my brother is going home in a month and I almost have a year here already. Honestly I dont know where all of that time has gone. It's also been exactly a year to the day since Captain America Civil War was released in theaters haha.
Well yesterday was a great day for Elder Silva and I because we had 9 of our investigators in church and it was Fernando's 3rd time in church and so it looks like we are going to be having a baptism this Saturday!!!!!! As long as he passes the interview (but he should, no problem).
Well what else happened this week...
oh yeah so last week Elder Silva loaned an investigator (Mario) 500 pesos. Ok so as missionaries we're not supposed to loan money to anybody and I already knew that but Elder Silva decided that he wanted to help the guy out and since he is leaving he didnt really care. Ok but first some background info on Mario
Mario: 38 yr old, not member, rest of family are members, wife- Alicia, 4 kids (not his biologically), doesnt have a job, hasnt had a real job in like 15 years, does drugs and drinks and stuff, and you guys get the idea.
So Mario needed 600 pesos in order to buy needed things for his family like medicine and food. So Silva told him "if you get 300 pesos I'll loan you the other 300". So a few days later Mario told Silva that he had the 300 pesos so Silva gave him 500 (cause he didnt have change) and so after buying the things he needed he was supposed to give Silva the change (200 pesos). Well you guys can imagine what happened (or maybe not its pretty crazy).
So on our way over to their house the next morning I told Elder Silva "I bet he went out and bought drugs" and Elder Silva said "maybe but I think that he actually used it to support his family". So we got to the house and the Alicia told us that after we left that night Mario actually went out and bought a few things for the family ok so in part Silva was like 30% right. But after returning home with some food he left again and went and bought drugs and didnt return. So the family was super angry and said that he is never allowed back again.
So 2 days since that all happened Silva and I were walking a street on the other side of our area and there is a guy that sells hot dogs on the corner and guess who was there. Mario. So we walked up to him and he sat down on the ground and was crying and stuff and we asked him what he did that night. Well you want to hear his explanation? He said that after returning home with a few things he recieved a strong spiritual impression and said that God told him to go buy drugs. 😒 Really?? God told you to buy drugs? Well which God were you praying to?! He then went out and got high and stuff and didnt return home. So Silva told him to not return home for a long time and to try to get his life back in order and stuff and then shared some scriptures that drop Cain👋 and stuff. Well really interesting story right? I learned two things (well maybe more but definitely 2)
1. never loan money to people (as missionaries). We're missionaries and it straight up says in the Missionary Handbook "do not loan money".
2. God will never tell us to do anything contrary to the gospel and will never command us to commit sin. He only wants the best for us and will only do things to help us. He loves us and only does things for our benefit.
Also funny thing of the week: We passed by some recent converts of ours (Maria y Sonia) and they have a biggish (kind of big) dog that is 16 years old. Well we were sitting in their patio and the walls are concrete and the dog just randomly walked into the corner of these two big fat concrete walls and started barking at something. I walked over there and there was nothing there in the corner at all and there is nothing and nobody on the other side of the walls and then like a minute later the old dog went into the corner again and starting barking again. And it was funny cause he had his head in the corner and it was facing down so it was just really funny. "Does somebody need a shot of Euthenasia?" hahahaha.
Well thats it for the week! Take care talk to you in a week!!!!
-Welks
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