This week was good! We've been filling up our chapel the past few weeks, and this week we broke a record with people in church (124 people)! So, if that's not a reason to celebrate, I don't know what is! Another great part is that we've been filling it with a lot of our investigators and less actives that we are currently teaching. So, that makes me feel good too. So, funny story. Our previously less active, now active Americo was sleeping a little in Sunday School yesterday, and the teacher was talking. The teacher said "Christ woke up super early every morning of his life, served other people, and did good all his days. What did he gain for his service to us?" and then asked Americo for the answer. I think he was just daydreaming, but he was like, "Um... They killed him?" My Lance side of me busted up laughing. I wanted to say, "That's my rescued member! Yeah!!"
But really, I have loved working with the less active families here. We have "rescued" like, 4 families here now, and yesterday, a good number who haven't come in a while came, which was great. One of them is the familia Calderon. They have a daughter who cracks me up. She is 5, and she is called "Maria", but she likes to go by, "Maria Marimachi" cuz she's a tomboy. She lives on the street, so she already knows lots of fun words and signs... But we always pass by her house and she is outside playing, so we always yell, "Oye! Maria Marimachi!", and she always lifts up her hand like shes gonna hit us, and gives us a death glare. She's fun. But her family came to church yesterday for the first time in a long while, so it was great!
My comp had a near death experience this week! He has a fungus that has gotten real bad on his foot, so he has been working in sandals (that's a fun site!). But, we were walking home the other night, and I saw something crawling REAL close to his foot, so I hurried and crushed it's little head. It was a little baby snake, but we didn't know what kind it was, so we snapped a picture, and took it to our pensh's husband. He was like, "Oh yeah. You would've died in like 5 minutes." Needless to say, my companion and I were dancing around and screaming like little girls, and walking back to the house afterwards was even worse. But it was a fun experience.
Investigators are going well. Nothing huge to report, but we have a good number of new investigators. One of them, Guillermo, we met yesterday. He came to church with his family, and only his son is a member. His wife wants to be baptized, his son wants to go on a mission, and Guillermo wants to change a few things in his life. But like, for real. We went and taught a short lesson on the Atonement yesterday, and WOW. He was bawling and the end, and the Spirit was seriously so strong. I'm excited to get back there and teach em some more. But yeah, we got a pretty good week lined up I feel like. I'm excited. Anyways, I think that's about it. Until next week! Love and miss you all!
-Elder Richman
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