Chistes, Anyone? [Jokes,
Anyone?]
Ok, I'll be honest.
You get to a certain point and your language study starts becoming
incredibly ineffective. So, I figured out a new trick. Find puns.
Ok, buckle up:
-He probado una fruta
que debe ser oro. (¿Por que?)
---¡Porque plata-no!
Ok, ok, stop crying,
because here's another:
-¿Porque
parece que todos las chicas tramposas siempre dicen de todos las cosas que hay
que hacer?
---¡Porque
ellas son listas!
I
know. That one may have been
a little too upper-crusty for you middle-class citizens to understand, but
lista is the word for both clever AND list. Man, I'm hilarious sometimes.
And hey, I remembered
the keys today.
President Archibald is
officially our new mission president. He and his wife are great.
His wife actually doesn't speak Spanish and has a thick southern accent,
but served a mission in England and got 40 baptisms. I didn't know
someone could do that there.
During our conference
with President Archibald, he mentioned that during his training, President
Monson specifically gave him advice. He told President Archibald that
retention/reactivation and baptism aren't designed to be mutually exclusive
efforts. I felt like that was specifically told for me, because that was
something that really had been troubling me. So that was nice.
Okay, we're pretty
excited for our two baptisms on Saturday. Jhostin is one. He's 14 and can be baptized by
either his brother or his uncle. It's been really cool seeing his
progress. The other is Mireya, who is giving up coffee, but is super
great.
Jerson and Patricia
will be investigators for a longer time, but come on, they'll get baptized.
Getting people married does take patience, but is worth it. I want
to see some people sealed while I'm here! They're a lot of fun, too. It's
nice to have people like that to make you believe that the Lord even prepares
your tracting efforts.
We're starting to see
a change with our ward council. We apologized in our correlation meeting
for not focusing enough on the salvation of people and asked what we could do
to help more. They really trust us more now, too, because we saw 10
inactives in sacrament meeting. I'll be honest, it was more than we were
imagining, too. This is a lot of fun.
Yeah, I think that's
it. I totally forgot about the Fourth of July. I'm sorry, homeland.
I love you and hope
you’re all doing well.
Elder Johnson
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