been working hard and meeting a lot of wonderful people as we contact
on the street. It's starting get quite a bit more hot but I still
absolutely love it here. Valencia is soooo beautiful and I feel so
grateful to serve here!
So we've been finding lots of new investigators, but everyone seems to
cancel on us when we go for the second visit! Anywhere else it would
be very frustrating, but I thoroughly enjoy talking to the wonderful
people of Valencia on the street, in my last two areas contacting was
very hard, we would get yelled at, laughed at, and some other things
that are not very nice but here everyone is super polite and friendly
and basically everyone we stop listens and is very nice! What a
blessing!!!!
Along with contacting we've been passing by old investigators in the
area, ringing their doorbells and trying to meet them. And as we were
doing that we knocked an investigators door and her son answered the
door and let us in. Turns out she wasn't there but her three sons
were(Diego 19,Dario 13, and Deymar 9). We sat down and shared a little
bit about the Book of Mormon and invited them to read it and to pray!
Their mom is getting back this week, and we'll be meeting with them
soon to hopefully start teaching them!!
We also went to eat "Fufu" (an African Dish that includes a potato
dough stuff that you dip in a soup with your hands) with a member
named, "Mama Africa" from Cameroon(A Country in Africa) and it was
SUPER GOOD! Valencia has soooo many Africans, lots from Nigeria,
Cameroon and Ecuadorian Guinea. And the African people are just so
great people, they have great faith and are so funny! Lots of people
from Nigeria speak a form of broken English called, Pigeon and it's
super hard to understand! For example a typical phrase in Pigeon is,
"I like you leg!" Which translates to in American, "I like your
shoes!" Hahaha. So as you can see talking to Africans in Pigeon is
super fun haha.
Later in the week we meet a Lady from Cameroon named Laura, and we
started teaching her! We met her on the street and got in for the
second visit!!! We taught her the Restoration very simply because she
speaks mainly French and the spirit was very strong, and it was nice
to know that I'm finally not the person who speaks the worst Spanish
anymore haha!
The weeks are literally just flying by now.....I'm starting to
approach my one year mark! Also my companion hurt his foot playing
soccer on Saturday and now has tendinitis in his foot. So he's going
to be on crutches for the next couple weeks :(, but at least it's not
broken! I know God loves all of you and he wants us to come unto him,
and thanks to our Savior we all can! Have a great week! Adios
-Elder Miller
No comments:
Post a Comment