I think you're crazy.

From Feb. 14, 2014

This week we went to contact a reference that we got with this member. She took us to this house and we entered. The lady that we went to visit was sitting there with a veil on. This is an immediate indicator that she is every evangelical. The Evangelical church here is huge and they generally don't want anything to do with us. So I thought well this is going to be interesting. But we shared a scripture with here, because it was late we couldn't actually teach a full lesson. Then the Sister that was with us, Sister Gochez told us that she wanted a blessing. I'll tell you more about the Gochez family another day. Anyways we put our hands on her veiled head. (Not sure if blessing work through evangelical veils.) Before I could explain anything or say anything she immediatley starts praying in a very loud way. ¡Bendito Jesús! ¡Santo sea tu nombre! ¡Quita esta enfermidad de mi cuerpo! She started getting real into it and started yelling and shaking. Then her hands started going up and volume kept going up and up. Then final Sister Gochez stopped her. And had to, with force, pull her hands down. I then told her that she needs to be quiet and listen. She did and I gave her a little blessing. Apparently she has been visited by missionaries before. She invited us over for dinner and gave us sopa de gallina or hen soup. There was some weird stuff in that soup eggs that didn't have shells but were still shaped like eggs. I'm assuming they never actually left the hen until the hen was killed. They was some other funny textured mystery meat. The base of the soup was pure vegetable oil. It was actually pretty good though. Anyways that was the interesting story of this week

This week has been a good week. We found this guy one day a couple of weeks ago. We were walking in the street and I heard Hey Elders. I turned around and saw a guy and his wife. We went and started talking to him. He told us that he was a member but he went inactive around 20 years ago. Apparently his sisters are strong members but he has returned. So we asked what day we could pass by his house. He said, "Ahh, one day." His wife however was way more receptive. In fact she told us she was very interested in learning. The man told us, "I know that she wants to learn but I don't want her to want to learn." We just thought, "Oh well but we are definitely coming back." We have gone back a couple of times. Every time the man pretends to hide himself from us like he doesn't want to talk but now it is just a joke and they are becoming more positive and positive. The man is changing and they wife is learning. That really is the beautiful thing about the mission.

Thanks for everything.

-Elder Rowberry