Let the rain fall down!

Monday Oct. 1, 2012

My fellow humans,

Como estais? I LOVE THE MISSION! This work is the best. You wanna know why? Because it's God's fetchin work. And I get to be a part of it. It's hard, difficult, tiring, STRESSFUL, and sometimes brings violent thoughts to one's mind, but I love it. This week was a little bit trying. It went a little like this.

Everything good until Thursday.....somebody put a sign in the middle of a sidewalk and decided they want to attempt murder on God's servants. It was 9:04 and my companion and I were haulin home after a long day's work. I was behind Elder Christensen and I've got my head down trudgin home. I look up and he's about 60 yds ahead of me......GAME TIME. So I pick up the pace a little, throw my head down and go. As I look up again.....I hear metal on metal and I see Elder Christensen wrap around a NO PARKING sign. We were goin mind you and he ATE IT. So I roll up and say, "You alright?"  trying so very hard not to laugh.

He says, "Ya but I can't feel my arm!" He's laying in the gutter in a fetal position, cards strewn about, his backpack in the middle of the street, at this point I start to direct traffic so nobody hits my comp or his backpack.

A cop drives by and flips on his lights. "Wow, nice one you got the cops comin!" I said, "Shutup" he said. "Everything alright?" Officer Lopez asked.

We told him the story and he insisted on calling an ambulance. HAHAHA Elder Christensen could move his arm by this point and it was feeling better but Officer Lopez insisted so we went along with it. Then we heard the sirens. "Wow Elder you got the firefighters comin too!" "Shutup" he replied. I'm laughing histerically at this point and Elder Christensen was fairly bashful. They checked him out and everything is fine. He has a sprained wrist and we have a car for a week or so. WHAMMY!

 Friday regular. Saturday, we got in bashes, I had to rebuke members for smoking pot, not coming to church because she got offended, and thinking it was ok to drink a glass of wine every once in a while (all different people). Then we found out some other Spanish missionaries were poaching an investigator from us from ANOTHER ZONE! They asked if they could make their investigator feel comfortable because she couldn't make it out to church an hr and a half away. I know other missionaries get this email.....DON'T POACH!!!! The wrath of God will be upon you!!

 Then Sunday came. Frank showed up, he’ll get baptized and we had another come to church. Alejandrina didn't come, or Luz. We’ll be moving their date. Church was stressful as ever and I was super frustrated.

Then we were contacting and my companion and I got in an argument and we went to go contact people in the park. More bashes, then another guy comes back and says,  “Actually can you come by tues?”  “ Abolutely!”  Then the next guy says, “Can you come back tomorrow?” “ABsolutely!”  I was about ready to give up and die right there. As we push ourselves to the limit, then a tiny bit more, GOD RAINS BLESSINGS UPON US! Let the rain fall down, and duh duh duh. I don't remember how it goes. I love you and hope you have a great week.

-Elder Matt Dial