Good Things Will Come- Nogal- Week 4

January 5, 2015

Ok, well, I'm glad that you had a good week and that you were able to do good things. Our week was interesting. New Years is not the best time to be a missionary. One hopes that everybody will be looking foward to the new year with goals and hopes of change, but then finds out that they all just want to get super drunk. But apart from all that, it was cool. From our balcony we watched all the fireworks that they set off at midnight. My comp hates sleeping for some reason and always tries to keep me up late, so New Years Eve, I let him have his desire, and we stayed up until midnight. That was the day he had an ingrown toenail taken out, too. That was cool. I took a video. There was quite a bit of blood and gore, but he was anasteazad (I know that's not a word, but I don't want to try to spell anesthetized). And at 12, we were on our balcony watching the fireworks that in no way compare to those of Las Vegas, but are still impresive, only due to the fact that they come from individuals and not from casinos. I also wrote a letter to myself about things that I wanted to do in the year. So I do have resolutions, things I want to have done. I like writting letters to myself. I do it at the beginning of every change, and it has been cool ,because I have been able to see the changes I have made.
In missionary work news, we had 2 investigators in church, G y L, who are a couple who have been listening to us for a long time, but this is the first time they've been able to come to church with us. They have had a lot of opposition, but this appears to be where the good stuff starts to happen. That happens sometimes. We just keep doing visits to somebody that we think can progress. We know they can progress, that someday they will be members of the church, but it just seems that nothing works, so we go and work as hard as we can until we thing about giving up, or we think that we should have given up a while ago and we just aren't sure what we're doing any more. And then the blessings come. Like, I just think that everything is going so poorly sometimes that I'm not sure why we even try, but then, goood stuff starts happening. And I don't just feel that about investigators. I think that's the way God works with us sometimes, taking us until we think we've been broken and then the really good stuff comes. So, I'm glad you said that I was awkward and weird before the mission (jk), but I'm glad that I'm not as big of a looser now, So... Happy New Years and may you all live long and prosper. I lobe you! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!