The weather here is nothing below 70. It rained yesterday but it was still so warm. It is so nice here and I am learning so much. I just can not believe I am here and I am learning as much as I am. I really have learned the Book of Mormon in such a new way.
It's so crazy and the food, oh man, it's soo good here !! They have something called Tritip and it's like a certain type of beef but so good. There are fruit trees everywhere and I would stop and pick them but sadly it is a federal offence because that is someone's source of income but man, there are millions of them and that's not a lie!
And everyone loves seeing us, they wave to us all the time..well most of them do :)
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| Elders Hidalgo & Clarkson |
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| Typical, silly Elder Routledge |
So this week I have some bad news to report :(
I am getting fat, believe it or not. I have gained 12 pounds in 3 weeks and I am starting to get a belly. It's crazy. I don't like it, so I have picked up my workout.
My week has been busy but pretty boss. We've had many lessons and some new investigators. I learned a lot from my morning reading in Mosiah on Tuesday, so that was cool. There was a knock on our door and holy cow, when I saw who it was I died laughing (No, it was NOT his mother !). It was the Jehovah's Witnesses ! It was so funny because we were each teaching our own doctrine and man, it was great. We bore our testimony (or started to) but they left :)
I felt bad though, cause we asked them questions about God and they really didn't know the answer. My companion and I were trying to get them to take a Book of Mormon, but they wouldn't.
Later that night we visited with a Christian man. He does not want to be baptized but he just likes having us over to feed us so that was cool. (hmmm...maybe THIS is why he has gained 12 pounds!!)
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| Elder Routledge's desk |
Wednesday was pretty cool. I hit my 3 week mark (3 weeks already?!) and that felt cool. Later that night, I had a very spiritual scripture study that helped me out and I found scriptures in the Bible that talk about the latter days so that was sweet. Otherwise it was a slow day :)
On Thursday we taught 3 lessons with a 91 year old woman. She likes us young men around as she is lonely so we went to visit her. She is pretty cool and we were able to share a small message with her. The young girl we are teaching is progressing but her mom is the challenge. We have not been able to make any progress with the mom, but it is still going pretty good and she still wants to be baptized. We also met with a whole family. I can see the whole family being baptized in a few weeks.
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Friday was good as we taught 2 lessons today. One was with a girl who has the same issues as the other young girl we are teaching. She wants to be baptized but her mom won't let her. Later that night, I had a really good talk with one of my room mates and it was cool because he really helped me. I have had a hard time being away from home and I was feeling pretty homesick and upset but he helped me and I have been feeling much better now. I am doing really good.
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| Elder Routledge and Elder Hunt |
On Saturday we had 2 more lessons, 1 with the less active man we've been meeting with and then 1 with a less active family which was really cool. Sunday I had church in a very small ward. The family that we met with earlier in the week came to church so that was sweet.
I found one of those deadly spiders in our garage. Well, they really are not that bad, (well, that makes me feel much better...NOT !!) but my and my other roommate were trying to capture it, but accidentally cut it in half :)
Well, I have to go as time is short. (I have about 20 people emailing me, including Hannah ! That was cool to hear from her. Thank you for your letter mama, it was nice!) I miss you all so much.
Keep sending me the good news and keep smiling :) :) :)
Love,
Elder Routledge
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