"And sometimes you have to kill Laban"

I don't even know where to start this week. At the beginning of this week everything was "normal," but then on Tuesday the craziness began. On Sunday my compy and I fasted for service opportunities that would bring about teaching opportunities. Then on Tuesday there was a woman in our ward who asked for help with English (There are many members of the English ward that don't actually really speak English. Still not sure why.) So we were talking with her and helping her when she got a phone call from the Elders. Evidently they were teaching her daughter-in-law, but some things happened so they wanted us to start teaching her. She'd been to church lots of times and was living the commandments so she was baptizable, so the Elders told us to get her baptized that Sunday. So, the next 5 days consisted of us working harder than I ever imagined was possible to get things worked out. It turned out to be incredibly hard to contact her, and the Zone Leaders and the other Elders were all working with us. On Thursday night she was supposed to have her interview, so Elder Rosero (on of the ZLs  who is from Uruguay) and us were waiting in the church for the investigator to come. She didn't show up, so we called and were driving around trying to find her, and then came back to the church and were talking with Elder Rosero. (side note - we all really love Elder Rosero because he's super great, but also has a wonderful accent - he never spoke English before him mission, so it's really great.) We ended up talking about Jorge and how that one time we had to go by his house 4 times in one day before we found him, and then he said "Sometime you have to knock on a door 4 times, and sometime you have to kill Laban." So that became our motto for the week. "We're gonna go kill Laban!" Lots of crazy happenings and miracles came this week. Ultimately, the investigator didn't get baptized, and that was a good thing - she needed more preparation. We did end up staying out past 9 (with permission) 4 nights in a row, and one of those nights we didn't even get home until 10:30. I learned a lot about the blessings that come from following leaders, and we saw a lot of miracles. Didn't baptize, but we sure learned a whole lot.

 

That pretty much was our week in a nutshell - in the words of Elder Rosero, "I love you all, be perfect!"

Love,

M