9/26/11

West Nile virus. That means you turn into an Egyptian and start walking like one. We don´t have a mosquito problem at the moment, and we don´t have bugs in the house thanks to A/C.

Yes, the youth of today are misguided. They´ve grown up in society, and society has done a number on them. The ability to think has been lost.

The counselors are just there to monitor. You have to be careful nowadays. You never know when you could break your coccyx or something worse.

During preparation day, we don´t typically do much for physical activity. On Thursday we played some basketball with [mystery person](I had to use the stupid extra ¨super shift¨ key on these dumb spanish keyboards to do that. I miss US 102 key layouts...). It didn´t go too badly.

My companion and I were talking about how schemes like Pampered Chef were gone in today's world...but now we have to just claim they´re dying out.

We did a fairly deep cleaning as well. Defrosted the freezer (they´re still figuring out ´frost free´ over here), rearranged the furniture, put up some more items, etc. Things are more open now.

Oh dear. That´s never a good things. Dates are dangerous. Soon he´ll be googoo gaga and we´ll never hear from him again. Danger alert!

The week was interesting. Nothing really happened. It just went along. So we´ll be working this new week to try to make things happen again. Sometimes that happens.

So, I´d been trying to get my old convert here, Ismael, to come back to church. He´d been inactive since April, more or less, and he always told us how he was too busy to meet. (he´d fallen in love with a catholic girl, and so was off in that apostacy). On Thursday (I´ll explain what happened before this moment later), we were walking to the chapel to prepare for the scripture study class we´ve been holding when I felt the impression to call him. So I did, and it was different. He just asked how I was, I told him he was invited, he asked the time, I told him to bring his Bible, and we hung up. I didn´t really think more about it from there on.

A few hours later, he walked in the door of the chapel. Said how he´d had a dream that he needed to come back to church, and that my call was what he needed. So he´s been with us every day since, and all seems to be okay.

Last week, we had these two people contact us on the street. So on Thursday we were trying to meet with them again (outside, in a park), but they had some of their friends there. Then the friends invited over the convienently located preacher of their church, the Baptists. Ahh...what fun. We talked for a good twenty minutes, he just kept contradicting himself, and if any of the rubberneckers were impartial, they would have noticed how blatant the difference was. Then he really freaked out when I handed him a pamphlet (they think having pictures of Christ is equivalent to idolatry) and he started screaming how we were idol worshippers and needed to repent. By this point I was grinning, so I just smiled, extended my hand, and said ¨Sir, we invite you to repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. If you´d like to see us later, here´s our card, and the address of the chapel. It´s been a pleasure talking with you.¨ He really didn´t like that one. Needless to say, he didn´t take the card, and we left. But it was fun. (D&C 100:5). And it was inline with what is stated there.

So this week should be interesting. We´ll have district meeting on Wednesday and we´ll be travelling to Benidorm for baptismal interviews, then on Thursday evening I´ll be traveling up to Barcelona for a training meeting on Friday, then I´ll be travelling down Friday night, getting back, then we´ll have conference on Saturday and Sunday. It´s going to be busy. We´ll see how it goes.

I hope all have a good week.

Bradley.