So I totally didn't write an email last week because nothing cool happened that week!
Paraíso has been super slow lately. We have been finding a ton, but sadly after the first lesson most people tell us not to come back...
But in better news! I reached my sixth month mark this past Tuesday. It definitely has felt like no time since I left the small town of Willard, Mo. But at the same time it has felt like years.
We had Zone Conference this week and it was super lit. We used to have them with multiple zones, but President Youngblood has changed that so now it is just individual zone conferences! It is so much better than the huge gatherings that they used to be.
Also this past Sunday we had an investigator at church who is ten and so we got to go to primary with him! It was probably the best Sunday I have had in a while. We got to sing all the primary songs in Spanish with the kids and it was so much fun!
So yeah not much has been happening, but let's hope something changes soon!
Firstly we found out transfers this past week and I'll be staying with Elder Lewis for these next six weeks. This sadly signifies that my streak of having a new companion for every transfer has come to an end, but at least we both know the area! So we should get a lot more work done this next transfer.
So Tuesday we were finding all day. Later that night, while Elder Lewis and I were finding in an apartment complex, we were going through our area book and this group of about five people were a ways off in the distance and started yelling at us and asking in a variety of ways if we wanted to fight.
Now, I'm not one for unfairly matched street-fights and especially while in dress clothes and neither is my companion. So we promptly decided to start walking towards the opposite direction from them and they started running at us! Luckily a member lived within like twenty feet of where we were so we went to their house and banged on the door until they let us in. They were pretty confused as to why we were banging on their door late at night until we explained our reasoning for not wanting to go to the hospital that night.
And that ladies and gentlemen is how we avoid fights as missionaries.
So Thursday! We started with helping this dude move his stuff out of his house because he had a twenty-four hour limit before the apartment complex threw it all out. The house had been boarded up for the previous month because the guy was evicted. When the boards were taken off we found out that a group of home-less people had been living there at one point and had completely trashed everything that was possible to trash.
The guy was soooo furious when he found out what happened. So that was pretty interesting.
Then later we went on exchanges and Elder Rivero and I were in their area. We went to talk to this investigator they had. We met her outside of her apartment with her Mexican neighbor and her "Boyfriend". Her Baby-Daddy/Boyfriend ended up yelling at her and us for talking. About thirty seconds later the Mexican man, who had previously been showing the boyfriend a certain pancake mix and syrup, came up to us and told us to look at the knives he had as he pulled each individual one from it's sheath and flashed them around in front of us.
He then proceeded to ask which one we wanted. We said that we didn't want any of them and we especially didn't want any of them in our stomachs. We went back to talking to the lady and the man pretended to "trip" and bring the knives very close to Elder Rivero and I. We told him we didn't want any issues and left.
And that ladies and gentlemen is how we were threatened with being stabbed this week.
Friday was Elder Rivero's cumpleaños and so we had dinner at a members house and they even bought him a cake! It was super cool of them and we all had an awesome time. Later that night we went to Sonic as well because half-price shakes and such.
All in all this week was pretty dangerous, but we also had tons of awesome lessons! We also found a ton of people to teach and it was super lit. So yeah.
Until Next Week
Elder Lawson
Pictures:
1. Elder Lewis falls asleep each Sunday in church so I took a picture!
2. Also a video from the party we had for Elder Rivero
Firstly, we met a lady named Marie on the street a week ago and she needed help in her backyard because she is 89 year-old and can't do it by herself. So we head over on Tuesday and we found out then two things:
1. She is a hardcore hoarder (like television show bad)
2. She is absolutely crazy
So yeah we ended up being shown her house, which had mounds of stuff everywhere and walkways to get through it all. We then tried to help her with her yard, but she wanted to keep half of the branches and stuff on the ground so that it could be used to sue her neighbors....
After helping as much as we could we left and have been getting phone calls from her every few days with crazy long voicemails. So yeah that was weird...
Friday, we got to go to the Northside of Las Vegas for a doctor's appointment and the entire day we haf one of the priest from our ward with us. We then had exchanges and Elder Tolman and I were in his area. We were tracting and met a possessed lady which was super crazy. She was throwing herself everywhere and had super creepy eyes and all of it was freaky. She kept walking weirdly and wouldn't calm down until we gave her a Jesus card #JesusPower
We promptly went home and said a pray to help get rid of any dark stuff that may or may not have followed us home.
And Sunday! We had our investigators come to church finally! They brought their grandkids too! Their grandchildren don't speak Spanish, so we ended up hanging out with them in Primary all day translating for them. So yeah Primary was super lit and I would definitely do that again. Later that day we found a lady who is in-active, but loves the missionaries! So we are definitely going to work with her and her husband a ton!
Until Next Week!
Elder Lawson
Pictures:
1. Me in front of the MGM and if you zoom in you can see that Tiësto and Calvin Harris are at Hakkansan right now
2. The four missionaries of the Paraíso ward looking tough
3. Also we found a trampoline
