Beck Family!
This last week, pretty average...
NOT!
Since when has any week of my mission been average? Since
when have i started an email with average? Never! and this week kept up the
crazy.
Me and elder L had a crazy lesson like 2 days ago
with this guy. He is a pentecostal christain. What that means is
that he is the type that jumps up and puts his hands in the hair at church and
yells hallelujah. Now i have taught lots of pentecostals before in my mission,
and i have had some of my funniest moments trying to teach them in a spiritual
way when all they want to do is "Praize da Low'rd"
So we are teaching him
the restoration. We are going along,
when suddenly he says, 'you know how i got my testimony?' He then proceeds to
tell a 20 minute story that i kid you not what absolutley without reservation
completely crazy. He started with how he crossed into the states, about how his
coyote left him to do, about how he drank his own urine, about how he got tear
gassed, and eventually in the states how he decided to return to mexico to get
his family, and repeat the whole process again, then cast a demon out his
grandaughters boyfriend, and finally learned how to make authentic fish tacos.
Now try to imagine this magnitude of a story with the frequent jumping out of
the chair and shouting hallelujah at the top of his lungs. It was frightening
the first time he did that, it was then flippin hilarious every time after.
Man, the people i get to meet, foreal, sometimes i wonder how i have met so
many crazy people. Everybody seems to just be all the way crazy here. Not half
way crazy, but full blown crazy.
But in the spirutal
sense we also had a great week. On Friday we found and began teaching a family
that just got here from el Salvador 2 months ago. People that have just got
here from central america are gold, because they have been unpolluted by the
many religions here and they are just accepting of everything and genuinly nice
people. By inspiration we began teaching them about the eternal nature of the
family within the first 5 minutes that we met them. Out of nowhere the lady
said that her father had just passed away and that she had so many question
about it, but she felt that God had helped her through it all. Man, the gospel
is true, and inspiration is real, and if we listen to the spirit and act
immediatley on its promptings, it will always guide us to how we can help and
uplift those around us. Have a great week family, love ya'll.
Beck out,
Elder Beck
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