October 20, 2014
Crazy guy and crabs!
Hello! This week has been a little sad, but we are still
doing well here. Sad, because last Sunday the mom of Hermano D died, and
now J’s grandpa died. And, we had a few investigators that were
progressing awesome that kinda lost interest. But we will keep working hard,
because there are prepared people out there.
So last week after a lunch appointment, we were leaving when
a tall guy with really long hair started shouting at us, saying in Spanish
"Jehovah's witnesses" and "Kneel down here, right now!" and
a bunch of crazy stuff like that, and he started approaching. The member took
off on his motorcycle, and the guy kept yelling crazy stuff, and then he said
something in English, so I waited and let him get up close. My companion
thought he was going to punch me in the face, so he kinda backed off, but I
started talking to him and when I told him we weren't Jehovah's witnesses, he
backed off a little and commanded us to preach and spread the gospel, and to
look up a cowboy on the internet (he spoke perfect English, he had lived in
California and Texas). He said something about how we had to be careful because
we were close to his mom's house, and then I shook his hand and we walked off.
So a couple days later, we were walking nearby and I decided to knock on the
door of where I thought his mom lived, and a guy answered and said he had no
idea who the crazy guy was. Then I told him we were missionaries, and he said
he had no interest in religion and closed the door. So we knocked on another
door to see if it was the mom, and there was nobody, and I felt like we should
knock on the first guy's door again. So we did, and his wife came to the door,
and when we asked why her husband had told us that he doesn't want anything to
do with religion, she started to cry and told us their child had died and said
come back another day and shut the door. So we need to return to visit them,
but it was a cool experience, how maybe God even works through crazy people in
the road haha.
Yesterday, after church, we went to the house of a
recently-converted family, Familia Re, with the D family to eat lunch! I
helped to peel potatoes, and we made a giant pot of Ajiaco, this awesome soup
here in Colombia, and we cooked it over a fire! I haven't touched a fire in a
really long time haha. And they live super secluded in the forest, where there
is just a fantastic view.
Today we went with John, one of our investigators, to an
awesome waterfall! It was pretty cool, even though in the entire way there it
was just dumping rain. And we saw a crab! I had no idea that there were crabs
here in Colombia, well so far away from the coasts! When we got back I at a
fruit salad and we slept haha, we had hiked a lot.
I know that this church is the only church in the world that
has the fulness of the gospel, the priesthood, and a living Prophet here in the
earth. Have an amazing week!
Love,
Elder Toombs
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