The first is, yes, I finally got rejected. We contacted this one house that we found in the old investigators part of the area book. Apparently they moved and it was a different family. When we arrived only the 13 year old daughter was home so she told us to come back the next day when her grandparents would be home. We did. And we met the Grandma. And she went on a little rampage about how we are selling fake salvation and are of the devil and a few other things that I don`t really care to translate.. jaja. But she told us not to come back and that was the first time in my mission that I have been rejected!!
The second was a girl of 18 years. We were contacting and found her sitting on her porch listening to music. When we met her she was really receptive to us and our message but we didn't have a guy with us so we couldn't go in and teach her (this happens most of the time when we are contacting because women never work here and the guys are always gone.) So anyways we had already handed out all of our lesson 1 and 2 pamphlets so we only had the pamphlet on the gospel of Jesus Christ. We gave that to her and she promised to read it before we came back.
We were super excited because we thought we had found a investigator with a lot of potential! We could tell she probably liked to go out on weekends and party and she had a lot of piercings but we were hopeful! Well long story short we went over and started teaching, we got through the first principle which is faith and moved onto the second principle of repentance and extended an invitation to repent. I will translate her direct quote, "No, no quiero arrepentirme porque me gusta pecar mucho." or "No I don't want to repent because I like to sin a lot." So, at that point we kinda gave up on her...for now.
The third was another girl who we found pretty much the same way but she had just had a baby so we gave her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet. When we came back we started talking and introducing this amazing and marvelous plan that our Father in Heaven has for all of us. I told her that we know that families can be together forever, that she could be with her beautiful baby boy and her husband for eternity. I then asked if that was something she would want and she simply just said "No." Uhhhh... "¿Por que?" "I don't know I just don't want to."
So this week I got rejected, told that a girl doesn't want to repent and that a girl just doesn't want to live with her family forever. It was kind of a bizarre week but for the most part it was still pretty good.
As for hurricane Matthew. It missed us and we just got a lot of rain from it. It kinda came out of nowhere too. I will attach a picture of Elder M**** and I after we got caught in the rain. But there isn't any damage to my area so that is good. No clean up to be done.
One super awesome thing is I saw a kid wearing a BYU shirt! He was about 10 and looked like he was on his way to baseball practice but it was a shirt that had a number 2 on it and I thought I saw the BYU "Y" at the top. So I called him over and sure enough! And on the back where the name would go on a jersey it said Cougars and it was totally a BYU shirt. I don't know if it is his team shirt or what but it was super awesome and made me super happy to see! I asked him where he bought it but he was super shy.
And, once again I am super grateful for American healthcare. One of the Elders I live with had to get his wisdom teeth removed while he was here and he is on really crappy pain killers and they pretty much did a hack job so he is super miserable and I am just so grateful I was raised in America.
The last last thing is I read a talk from last conference by Elder Holland and he was the last speaker and talked about how after such an amazing spiritual experience like conference the world has a way of coming down on us and trying to ruin it. My invitation would be to go back and reread your favorite talks from conference and always try to think of how you can apply those talks in your own lives (cough cough especially the talk by Elder Oaks). Also you can go read the talk by Elder Holland last conference--it is super good!
But I miss you all and love you all so much and send my love and prayers to anyone who got affected by the hurricane up there! Also Haiti needs y'alls prayers! There are a ton of people who had to evacuate and a ton of people who died. So everyone know that us as an entire mission are praying for all of the victims of the hurricane! Y'all are the best!!!!!
Love,
Elder Robertson
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| Getting caught in the rain of Hurricane Matthew. |
