25 September 2017

My Spanish is improving as always, and we do speak it quite a bit. We find more Hispanics than white people out here, which I thought was interesting. We've been working hard and finding a lot of English speakers who are willing to hear the gospel, which is a little frustrating. We're not allowed to teach them beyond the doorstep and then we turn them over to the English speaking elders. So far, we've found 14 and 2 of them have said that they want a Book of Mormon. We haven't found anyone Spanish speaking who's that interested yet, but we're trying. Almost all of them seem to be big Bible thumpers who are interested in their church and not much else. We have a lot of potentials, but no one will return our calls, answer their doors, or be there for appointments. So far we've had one lesson, and it was with a part member family. Oh well, we'll keep on trying. We met someone yesterday who I'm hoping will let us meet with them. This is where the Christmas lights come in. So, last night we'd been knocking for a few hours and had only found two more English referrals. We were about to give up and go home (We had just finished knocking an entire apartment complex and had ten minutes before we needed to go home) but we decided to find some houses and knock. We turned down a street and my companion said that if anything stuck out, we would stop for it. About a second later, we turned the corner and found a big house covered in flashing Christmas lights. If that wasn't a sign, I don't know what is. We knocked on their door, but they were English and didn't want to hear it. They did, however, say that about two blocks down there were some people who spoke Spanish. So we walked to where we though they were talking about, and the first door we knocked on was an entire family of Hispanics who were willing to hear the Gospel. It was pretty cool, but the dad will be busy for a while so we'll call to schedule something with them later. Fingers crossed! I think that's all the big stuff for this week, so bye until next!