Till I Collapse

From Monday August 11, 2014

This week was a crazy week.

On Tuesday we had the leadership meeting in Santa Ana. We had to wake up at 4 in the morning to get there. It was really good. We learned about making goals and reaching them. The next day we had to wake up at 4 again to go to the temple with investigators. Unfortunatley we didn't get on bed exactly on time. The Tacuazin finally came. I was showering and my companion yelled at me telling me not to leave the bathroom. I asked why and he told me the tacuazin was in the room. To get to the rest of the house from our bathroom you have to pass throught our bedroom. So the tacuazin was trapped in the bedroom. I opened the door a little bit and saw a tail in my closet by my clothes. It was long. Then the tacuazin left my clothes and went to the floor. Tacuazin in english in possum I believe. This rat was the size of a 2.5 L bottle of soda. We spent hours trying to catch it without getting bit. We didn't want to kill it because we would have felt bad. We finally caught it and we gave it to the neighbors. They eat those things here. I would like to eat one, one day.

I have been tired all week on beacuse of all the stuff we had to do. I had to organize transport and "herd" about 70 people take them to the temple and make sure they got back in the bus. It was kind of stressful. But it has been great. We are trying to reach a baptismal goal of 20. Right now we have 6 baptized and 16 with date. As a zone we have faith and we are working hard to acheive this goal. This week I also went on some interchanges with some elders in my zone. I two cool spiritual experiences. I went with Elder Hassard to his area. Elder Hassard is new in the mission he has around 4 weeks here. He is from Syracuse, Utah. We went and talked to some investigators that we wanted to put baptismal dates with. They had some problems so we explained the restoration. If someone has a testimony of the restoration everything else falls into place. Anyways they still had doubts so I asked them if the wanted to ask God. These were two seperate lessons. We knelt down with them and they asked if they should get baptized and they both described a burning feeling in the chest and they both accepted baptismal dates. Elder Gubernick, who used to be AP but now is home, told me once, "The knees never fail." Turns out that it's true. If you guys have a lack of testimony or doubts or questions, kneel down and ask God.

Love you all folks.

Have a great week!

-Elder Rowberry