18 June 2018

So this week was just a whole bunch of finding. On Friday we went out and knocked all day, but we found some really cool people. And 8 of them! We started out in the morning trying to knock in the only apartments close to us in our area, and we found some cool people then, including some people who are vacationing here from Honduras. It was pretty cool. It's getting a lot harder to find people right now because of the World Cup. People aren't answering the door, refusing to turn off the tv, and just generally not paying attention. In one house we asked them if we could turn off the tv and they said sure! So they then just turned down the volume. So helpful. It made our job much harder because the Spirit isn't quite as strong with two Hispanic announcers going crazy on tv. We'll still keep trying, but it's also hard to stay focused with a soccer game going on behind you. We have a few investigators who we've been trying to work with, but they're very Catholic. And believe that "anybody who talks about God is good, so it doesn't matter where we go." You don't know how often we hear that. We have to really go on in the Apostasy about how none of the churches were true and taught the doctrine of men, and go way in depth (with an object lesson on priesthood authority being lost and restored) with the Restoration to have a hope of them understanding what we're trying to say. Still, it could be worse. We're still finding alright. And in other news, we're going to have a new mission president in July, the son of Elder Holland. That'll be cool. Also, random moment from last night: we were visiting some of our investigators with our Ward Mission Leader and one of them wasn't answering, so my companion told him to "use his magic knock." So he knocked and opened the door. He told us that he thought that it was still locked, but it was funny nonetheless. We don't think that they noticed, but they did answer the door after that and we had a good lesson. So he does in fact have a magical touch for knocking doors!

That's all for this week! 

 ​The sorts of things we do out here. Yes, Mom, it's perfectly safe. Mostly.​

​It's been getting toasty out here.