Week 50

Week 50 in Nuevo San Juan

Dearest Family and Friends,

50 is a really big number. Dang.

How is everyone?! Im doing just dandy here in the internet cafe. Elder Godoy and I have had an incredible week. 

First,  A good funny story. Harold, one of my converts, turned 11 this week. So we bought him a few gifts, and and extra special surprise. As we were taking a "photo" together, I whipped and egg out of my pocket and smashed it on his head. We have it on video. Its priceless. Then my comp picked him up and dunked him in the tub of water outside of his house and bathed him with 11 bowl of water. It was probably the greatest birthday gift ive ever given ahah 

So we have two more investigators with baptismal dates! Andy and Alvin, two teenagers that always play soccer with us. They have become awesome! They used to only play video games and stay up till 5 am screwing around (quite frankly they remind me of myself haha) But now they go to bed early on saturdays and read their book of mormon everyday together before doing anything. Theyre awesome. My comp had his first baptismal challenge with them and they accepted! I was so proud. 

This week. I was a little dumb. There was a glass of water on the desk, and I forgot that it wasnt purified water. I drank it. And I immediately remembered that it wasnt purified after. Yeah. that was a mistake. I was wrecked the next day. But hey. Now I feel like a real missionary haha 

One last awesome experience. We had a new investigator a few weeks ago named Kevin. When we met with Kevin, I knew immediately that he just wanted to be our friend and nothing more. But for some reason, the spirit told me to stay with him a little more. Turns out that we met his uncle one day when we went to visit Kevin, and he wasnt there, but his uncle, Eduardo told us he wanted to visit us because he had many questions about the Book of Mormon. When we went to visit him, PURE GOLD! Man. This guy asks all the great questions! And when my comp challenged him to baptism, there was no beating around the bush. Just a sincere, Yes. If I know its true, then I have to be baptised in your church. BOOM! How awesome is that?! Were pumped for him. 

Well. I love life. 

Elder Hodson