holy barjona‏

Hey family. this week went by a lot better and smooth.  today was a fun day. pretty laid back but still fun. so just barely i made chimichangas. they were super delicious!. so we took re fried beans, jalapenos, chicken, some seasoning. and put it all inside. ill send you a picture of it all soon. then earlier we went into town. we went to a bookstore and i got a pocket size bible in Spanish. haha. you guys know how i like small stuff like that. i couldn't resist. then i bought a french dictionary. i was reading it this last week and its not that hard to understand. so i wanted to read more. then me and my comp bought a matching tie. were going to wear it to the district meeting tomorrow. that will be fun. then we walk along the shops in the plaza. there is this store called ANIS. so i got a picture to add to my anis collection. hahahah. that's all that happened today.

yesterday a new elder came in the mission. he was a late arrival so only him. the others came in 4 weeks ago. so when i called president to get everything worked out he just wanted to bring him to his house without any other missionary. that's when pres gives him the interview and then has dinner. with the missionaries. but being the smooth talker that i am i was like. pres this elder doesn't speak a word of Spanish hows about me and my comp come and translate just in case. hes like "that's a good idea elder".   can you say Free Dinner!!  hahahaha. it was good.

on Monday a family gave us lunch. they gave us a whole chicken and some potato salad. there is so much left over still. i love getting fed so often in this area. then after the office we went to the bishops house to help his kid out with his English. that was actually fun.

so do you remember the guy at the stake conference that stood up at the end? well we had  lesson with him as well. this guy is just too prideful to read and pray. the whole lesson he was like. i already have all i need. i feel as though I'm full. so i was like. God never stops giving us blessing and the only way to feel full is if we put a lid on our " spirit tank". it reminded me of the scripture " A bible a bible we've got a bible"   but you have to say it like Jordan at 630 am during family study.  hahahahaha. but yeah he is a very hard man to get through. if only he would read and pray. that's all anyone has to do. but even if we think that he would be too prideful to accept an answer and be wrong. i hate people like that. he must be an evangelist. they are just as bad as the JW. probably worse. they go around saying whatever they think they know. really overbearing people. but the best way to shut them up is through a good testimony.

 then Sunday was a good day. in church the bishop gave an amazing talk. our ward has had lots of problems and especially with the authority. people have no respect for others here. generally speaking they are very prideful. then the stake president and the counselor both spoke. basically saying how the bishop isn't superman and how he needs a lot of support. he was supposed to be released from being bishop this Sunday but i guess they had  talk with him.

 on Saturday we had a really good day. that morning we did a lot of contacts and i was like, hey do you remember that woman that we contacted the other day and she gave us her direction. well lets go pass by here. the woman had only given us a direction to a corner. so we went to the first house and knocked it. well it wasn't the woman we were looking for but even better. we presented ourselves and she was like i know here you are and i have actually been needing to talk to you. so they let us in and we gave the whole family the first lesson.  oh but he mom was an inactive member since she was 15 but remembered the church and knew that we could help. so they had a family friend that needed help and so we passed the reference right there. 3 new investigators!!. the only problem would be that no one here likes to get married and yeah. so we have to talk them into marriage first. that's quite the task. we set so many appointments that day!! i have never worked so long. but it was all good because we were pretty much teaching the whole day.

 on Friday we had an appointment with this guy named Lucas. he is a very interesting sort. he just doesn't quite get it all. hes more interested in proving thing through knowledge and science. but at least we got him to pray right. some people have the lords prayer just ingrained into their heads. they just don't get it.  freakin Satan!! there are so many people that just don't understand what they are being taught. they just do it by tradition. hahahaha. so one point of emphasis that we have been working on is to set up baptismal date the first lesson. its a lot easier than you would think. but it caught him off guard. he was like why do you want me to get baptized?   lol  his reaction was just too funny! then on Thursday we had district meeting. that was fun. nothing super special worth telling. well i cant think of anything else to say. i really liked your emails. they were all fun to read. i liked moms smoker experience. now the seegrist family really is going apostate!!! hurray apostasy!!! jk hope your doing well and have a good week. later!
 Elder Seegrist