E-Mail 11/04/2013

Dear familia,
Well this has been a very interesting week. First off me and my comp. have been speaking Spanish almost always ever since I got here. But it´s my responsibility to teach him English, so we decided to speak English in the house and Spanish outside. It was so funny because it wasn´t just Elder Paczka having a hard time. Well let´s just say it was harder then I thought to switch between languages. I would start to talk in English but then I would just automatically switch back to Spanish.  Well after speaking English a little bit again it came back to me, but it made me wonder if I was learning Spanish or English. It also makes me wonder what it will be like when I come home.

Well as for work here, well we have an investigator that we have had ever since I got here, (I´m pretty sure I mentioned him in my emails before) he is an alcoholic and he hasn´t been able to quite, so this week we decided to visit him every day.  So far it has been working, except for one day we were a little late because we were waiting for a member to join us, but then we found out that he couldn't, so we rushed over and on the way we found him sitting down with a drink.  Well he told us that he thought we weren´t going to come so he went for a walk and passed by a friend and he gave him a drink.  Luckily we found him before he drank a lot, so then he poured the rest out. but we hope it will be the last.

We have also been working with a less active member, when we visit him he always has an excuse and that we can come back another day, but when we come he just does the same thing, so we decided to just share a scripture at the door.  Well when we went to visit his son, but he wasn´t home and the father was, so when we asked him if we could visit with him, he said yes and during the lesion he was very attentive.  Well needless to say we left his house shocked. he still didn't come to church, but I have high hopes for him.

The other interesting thing to happen this week is well Halloween, all saints day and day of the dead.  Well my comp. said they celebrate Halloween in his city on the 31, but here they celebrate it on the 1 and 2 and rather then go to houses for candy they go to stores, so centro (center) was swarmed with little kids. It´s funny because we have Halloween because they have all saints day and day of the dead and they have Halloween because we do.  Well they still had their transitional stuff, they had some stuff setup in centro so I took some photos, but the computer dosen´t want to load the camera so maybe next week.

Love you all!!

Elder Durrant