Ok so on Tuesday Elder Larsen and I set out in the afternoon to head to an investigators house (Nicolas) and on our way to his house we were walking in this sketchy neighborhood and we heard this guy shout to us "hey do you guys have strength?" and we looked and saw an old couple next to an old little car that was stuck in a ditch. They apparently had backed into a ditch cause the back two wheels were stuck in the ditch. So we walked over and there were also two young teenagers (a girl and a guy just from the neighborhood) that had also come to help. So me and Elder Larsen and the 16 or so yr old teenager got behind the car and we pushed with all of our might as the old man was trying to drive out of the ditch. Well just us 3 almost were able to lift the car out and as we neared the top it suddenly came back down despite our efforts to push to up. So Elder Larsen had an idea. There was a big trash pile about 20 feet away (there always is in Uruguay haha) and so we found some plywood and some old clothes to put under the wheels of the cars to get traction. Well Elder Larsen took about 5 minutes to scoop out the mud from under the tires and put the board and old clothes in place. And by now more people had come from the neighborhood to help and we had 6 people behind a little car pushing, another car that had come with a cable to tow it out, and Elder Larsen's makeshift traction ramp to get this car out. Just remember all of that ok? So we went for it! 6 people behind a little car! Another car towing it out! And Elder Larsen's makeshift ramp! And the car still didnt get out!!! What??!! So after this attempt I backed away while the rest were still trying to push and I made an interesting observation. The wood and the old clothes that were under the wheel were now in front of the wheel as if they had gotten thrown forward. Well wait a minute. That doesnt make any sense. Its not physically possible. So I grabbed Elder Larsen and I tell him "hey look at this! Was he driving backwards?!" and so we ask the old man driving "hey were you driving backwards?" and he says "of course not! Why would I be driving backwards?" and everyone there was kinda laughing saying "ahh these two missionaries dont know anything about cars. Were trying to drive up not down haha!" and me and Elder Larsen are like "ok well were just saying that science is telling me that the clothes and board would be under the wheel. So this time they go again and I didnt even participate this time and I saw that the wheels were going backwards and finally another man observing with me said "hey youre driving backwards!" and the old man driving looks at the stick and says "oh would you look at that it was in reverse!" and he puts it in gear and drives right out. OH MY GOSH!!! Incredible!! He could have killed us! Why didnt you just listen to us??!! Well thats the wretched car story.
Ok so just the last cool thing that happened this week:
So on Thursday we were walking in the street and we pass this kid who is standing in front of his house and he is holding a german shephard on a leash and as we pass him he says "hey where are you guys from?" IN English!! And were like "you speak English??" (cause his accent was really good) and we go over and start talking to him and this kid is 17, named Joaquin, and speaks perfect and I mean perfect English without flaw in his accent (you wouldnt think he's latino) and guess how he learned English? Videogames, movies, and talking with his American friends. Well he didnt have a lot of time so we set to go by on Saturday and on Saturday we went by and we taught him about the Restoration and at the end I gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to be baptized. He said "well before I decide to get baptized I want to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it to know if its true". And we hadnt even asked him yet to pray about the Book of Mormon. He self-committed himself to read and pray! And he's also the one who contacted us on the street!!! Talk about backwards missionary work! He is really smart and pays so much attention and understood everything we taught him very well. He is so getting dunked!! haha.
Well thats basically our week! Love you guys! Have a good one!
-Elder Welker
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