E-mail 08/25/2014

Well this week has been awesome. Elder Ortiz is the first comp. that I have had that actually contacts, and he does it more then me, so I have to get my act together to catch up. ;)  People were actually home when we went to go visit, and we finally convinced someone to go to church this week, which you´d think wouldn´t be so hard seeing as it doesn´t start till noon.  We also had a bunch of less actives go to church, well where we lack in investigators we make up in less actives.   Hopefully we can get people to listen to us.  It was a little tough with Elder Stephenson because we were two tall white guys, it scared people, especially at night, and well my comp. is short so that isn´t so much of a problem anymore. 

It was funny, this week while we were walking, a girl asked who we were looking for, and so we said the name and she said that she was waiting for a letter and wondered if we were from estafet (mail service) well we said no. 

Well the work goes on, I hope you all are doing good.

¡Les Amo! 

Elder Durrant

E-mail 08/18/2014

Well this week has been good, the hermanas in our ward baptized the mom of another baptism that they had a few months ago, so they're happy.  It was so funny because we went to the baptism and someone locked their keys in the closet, and so we tried picking the lock.  Well Mom and Dad, don´t worry because I don´t have the skills of a thief, so the next thing we tried was get those flat plastic cables to wrap a box and we got it behind the thing that keeps the door closed (sorry I don´t remember what it´s called) and Elder Stephenson was pulling it with all his weight, then it snapped and he fell backwards.  It was funny because he always makes fun of me for doing stuff like that.

Well transfers came and well I´m still here in Sauzalito 1, and Elder Stephenson left for Zacatacas.  My new comp. is Elder Ortiz, he's from the state of Mexico.  He has seven months in the mission, and very quiet, so hopefully I can get him out of it.
This morning was crazy, we had to be at the central (bus station) at 8 in the morning, and for some reason I got sick last night, so after one hour of looking for a taxi, we finally got to the bus station.  We got their about 9 and after chatting a bit I headed back with my new Comp. and I took a nap, so I feel better now.

So basically I was in my first area for 3 months, then my second for 6 months, then my third one for 3 months, and now I´m going for 6 six months here, my comp has had more areas then me, but that´s fine because I like staying in one place then moving around.

Les amo

Elder Durrant

E-mail 08/11/2014

Well not much happened this week, but there was someone interesting that showed up Sunday.  He came in the middle of Sacrament Meeting, so we went and sate by him, then later we  found out his story.  If I remember right, he's from Chiapas, he's basically Indian.  He spoke two other languages, some dialect of Mayan.  He could speak Spanish, but he struggled with it.  He was traveling to the US but his visa wasn´t accepted or something like that, and so he had no choice but to head back, but he didn´t have any money to do it.  He couldn´t get any help from anybody, until an old man offered to help him out.  So he sold his watch to buy his ticket to get here, but he didn´t have enough for the rest of the way, so he gave him the direction to our chapel and said that he had some children that went to this church and that he should ask for some help from the bishop.  It was very humbling to hear his story especially since in class we talked about the good Samaritan.  He talked about his home land a little bit, he even told us that there was a chapel where he lives.  He was also missing part of his index and middle fingers from the first joint.  If I understood him right, he said that it was a sign of a worrier, but he said he wasn´t that anymore.  It was also very interesting his comments of god and that he came to know the true and living god.  As far as I know, he is on his way home now, but it has surely been an experience I will never forget.

Well as for work, we are getting more of the members involved, but it´s still a work in progress.  Our ward mission leader is really good, he is a young ward mission leader, but he does a lot and he wants to be a mission president one day,  He has two years now in the church, but he knows a lot.  He hasn´t been on a mission, but that doesn´t stop him.  When we are together it´s like being in a trio.

Les amo

Elder Durrant

E-mail 08/04/2014

Yesterday we had a meeting with the stake, it was a meeting for the ward counsel, but they invited us to come.  It was a really good meeting, they gave examples of what the meeting  should be like, hopefully it will help the work move along.  We are trying to get the members involved in the work, but it´s a slow process.  We are still working on finding people to teach, we have found some but we still would like to find more, and well there´s only two weeks left before the next transfer and it just seems to go faster and faster.  Right now I´m working on making a disc with some Mormon Messages so we can show  them to our investigators, because most of them don´t have internet.

Sorry there's not much that happened this week, I´ll try to write more next week.  Someone said they would give me some of their old coins :) so I might send some pics when I got them.

Les amo

Elder Durrant