October 4, 2010

Hola,

Oh geez, where to begin? We worked way hard this week and got some good things done. We got 5 new investigators this past week, much needed. Our most solid and coolest new investigator is a hardcore ex-gang member. He basically spent half his life in jail. He LOVES Jesus, a lot. Good thing that’s what our message is about! He found Jesus while in prison and so far he’s been really receptive to our message. He came to Conference yesterday.

Speaking of Conference, it was awesome! As for my favorite talks, ummm, number one I think was Elder Oak’s especially from a missionary’s standpoint. I really liked Elder McConkie’s talk about teaching and I liked all of President Uchdorf’s talks. You get a lot more out of Conference while on a mission. I wish I could just have an Apostle for a companion. We watched Conference Saturday in the Branch building in English on our own little TV in the RS room. On Sunday we went to the Stake Center because the satellite wasn’t working at the other building.

I ran out of food like half way through the week, just because we didn’t go shopping last Monday. It was fun being creative with bread and bacon bits and pop tarts for a few days.

Last Monday we went to downtown. "El Centro", which is just TONS of Mexican stores where you buy cheap stuff. And I do love cheap stuff. This morning we had to change our tire because we got a fatty screw in it so we’ll be going to Pep Boys later this afternoon.

One day this week we were in a three-some and we were in the other Elder’s area. We tried going by this lady’s house who was supposed to have a baptism interview with the Mission President that night and she was way sick so we were going to give her a blessing. We went by her house 3 times during the day and she was never there and we were getting worried she wouldn’t make it to her interview. We were driving around Anthony and decided to go visit this other kid and we turned down the street and I spotted this lady with her daughter walking into the Pharmacy. I yelled at my companion to pull over. We jumped out and she was good and she had her interview and is getting baptized! You had to be there, I guess. Stuff like that just doesn’t happen in real life. I love it.

BTW, I probably won’t email until Tuesday next week. We have a General Authority coming in on Monday.

Love,

Elder Wiest