Saludos.....!
ha Jan
11,2012
What’s up
familia! I miss ya a lot and hope everything is going good!!!! We had a fun
week with a lot of different experiences. We got a whole new district this last
transfer and most of them are brand new missionaries. We’re always together and
having fun! It’s good to hear that ya’ll
got grandpa and grandma out safely and that they are fine. I can only imagine
trying to move everything out of that house!!! I remember doing the storage and
it was a hassle!
But wow, this
has been a fun week. We are teaching so
so many lessons and are trying to find people that actually want to listen and
act. The surprising thing is that we
have found more inactive members that were baptized and have gone inactive for
one reason or another, than we have found new people.
We were
walking down the street just one down from ours and stopped at a house that had
music blasting out of it. We came to
find out that the family that lives there have been inactive for about 8 years.
haha We taught them twice and the third time we went back there the son who is
23 told us a story that cracked me up. First off, he is a little out of it, and
talks way too much. But, he was telling
us about a dream that he had and in the dream, God appeared to him and told him
that he had one more chance. As he was
telling us he was closing his eyes and feeling the wall and waving his hands!!
hah but, ya that he had one more chance and it would be his last to do the best
he could. I couldn’t help but laugh inside while he was talking, he was sooooo
dramatic.
We had a
earthquake run through the island this last week. It was really small but scared the crap out
of me. It was about 5:30 in the morning and I was still sound asleep (I sleep
with ear plugs so I couldn’t hear anything), but all of a sudden, I just feel
my bed start to move back and forth and I didn’t have any clue what was going
on! I woke up and my comp hopped right out of his bed and made sure that I didn’t
get up out of mine (he knows what’s up with earth quakes because he was there
in Haiti when the big one hit there). So,
he was freaking out. Things rumbled and shook for about 30 seconds and our
building was moving like it was sand! Crazy stuff! Hopefully, the world really doesn’t end this
year...... haha.
We went this
last week without electricity. We were studying and planning in candle light. We even had to hand wash our clothes! It was a great time and I can’t wait to do it
again..... It’s never dull around here.
We called our building owner for the 4th time and he finally got it
fixed for us.
There is an
investigator that we have who is the cousin of one of our stronger members. We were at her house teaching her and while we
were teaching one of her friends walked in the door and started saying hi to
everyone in the room and giving people kisses on the cheek like everyone does
here. When it came to my turn, I didn’t
occur to me that she was going to do the same to me, but then she went in for
it. I moved my seat back and turned my head - at the same time my camp yelled
NOOO haha! She stopped just that close and
then we had to explain that missionaries are off limits and can’t do that! She felt so bad. I was as embarrassed as ever
but it turned out to just be funny and a good story! Haha
We started and
are teaching a book of Mormon class in the ward because we feel that no one
knows anything about it. So, tomorrow we’ll
have our first class! We passed around a
list at church and had people that wanted take the class sign it. There were a lot of people that signed up. Hopefully,
we can get a message across about the importance of the book of Mormon in our
religion. My mission in El Ejido has changed a lot with my new companion. We are now focusing mainly on the Ward because
it needs tons of help. The gospel is still young here and there’s not a lot of
experience to help sustain the members, let alone to help build up the new converts.
I love all of you!! BYE BYE
ELDER GRINER
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