So that backscratcher is amazing! I use it EVERY morning! It's awesome! The toothbrush is great, and I absolutely LOVE both of the ties! The sweats are super comfy. Everything is great. Hope you enjoyed your christmas. Time since then has gone by fast, but not soo good. On Saturday we went to some investigators Olga and Teofilo. She reads the book of mormon everyday and is so ready to get baptized, would totally do it in an instant. He on teh other hand is not so interested, but they're not married either which is a problem. So we went over there and we were just straight up with them. We told them they need to get married to enjoy the blessings God wants to give them. And we were super bold and looked at Teo and said "Do you love Olga?" he said yes. Then we go "Then why won't you marry her?" and he just went on this 10 minute spree of bull crap excuses. SO they said they'd pray about it, and then on Sunday he called us and said "We got an answer, thanks to God. We want to talk to you tomorrow at 5." So we were super excited and we go up there, and they're not there. So we call them and he says "We're washing our clothes." So we can't see them Monday. yesterday, we call him and he just flat out says "I don't want to get married." So now we have to go chat with Olga about it and see what she is willing to do, because he's just completely holding her b ack and it's ridiculous. Then last night at English class, I was teaching again, and this gringa lady came in with her husband who is from Mexico. She's been taking spanish for the last year, adn she thinks she knows everything, so she was trying to correct me on everything. She was quizzing me on what we've gone over, and when I told her we hadn't done the silent e (drive, hide, die) she goes "Shame on you! They need to know that!" and it was super annoying, so I finally just told her "You know what, we speak with hispanics every day. We learned in 2 months what it's taken you a year to learn. We've seen what works, and we know what they're going to use in work and in daily life. That's what we're going over. They don't need to know why there's a silent e on drive right now. Maybe later." and just started ignoring her. It was driving me insane. I wanted to strangle her. Then we were talking afterwards and she dropped the f-bomb in the chapel and I was SUPER mad! I justa grabbed my stuff and left. I was so done with her.
On the bright side, Jose Manuel got baptized on Sunday. It was sweet! Unfortunately the water was freezing, because the water heater in our chapel is retarded! AAnd his dad had to do it twice because he said en el nombre del padre, del hijo y del espiritu santo, he left out the y before hijo. Pobre Jose. Oh well. So now I got my first one under my belt. Excited. I got the program.
So our Branch President is an idiot. I was talking to him about this less active lady in a wheelchair who wants to go to temple prep class and get her records transferred here, adn he says "if she wants to talk to me, she can come to the chapel and set up a meeting. The help of the church is for those who are 100% active." I was sooooo mad. I hate that man so much. My first sunday here, we had 70+ people in sacrament. Now, we're lucky if we can get 30. Everyone I talk to says that he's the reason they left. He just offends everyone in the branch. It sucks!
So yeah, there's my vent session for the day. Now that that's over.
So transfers got here yesterday. I'm staying here, so is Elder Darbro. Elder Landry, the english elder here, is going up to Newport 3rd with Elder Beckman. Yeah, he's going to be Alex Beckman's companion. Crazy, right? I thought that was pretty funny.
Anyway, not much new to say here. I got most of that out on Friday.
Ok, well I think that's it. Until next week. Love you all. It was great to hear your voices. Hope everything is going well. See you in 18 months!
Love SKyler
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