After I got off the computer, we went home, made lunch, and
then I laid down to take a nap. As I was trying to sleep, there was a huge BANG
and flash of light as lightning struck less than a mile away from our house.
And then the rain started. I rushed outside and grabbed all my clothes from
outside, and the rain started pouring harder and harder. So I was sitting in
our doorway, bewildered with the hard rain and random hail, waiting for a
motorcycle on the side of the road to be washed away, when Elder Guerra told me
it was raining inside the house. Which makes no sense, considering our house
is.... a house, right? Well, I was wrong. Water was coming down from almost all
of the light fixtures, in all but one of the rooms in our house. And it started
leaking down the walls and through the roof. Our house got SOAKED. Luckily, the
rain didn't get my bed wet, but the water falling from the ceiling got Elder
Guerra's bed wet. Most of our other stuff was relatively untouched by the rain,
but our floors were covered in water. At some point you will all see the video
that we made when it was raining. It was a lot of rain. So the first picture is
the water coming down our wall, and the second is the rain falling from our
ceiling.
Then, on Wednesday we went to the registry office where
Elder Guerra and I were witnesses for a marriage that will take place on the
10th, and then we will baptize the husband on the 15th and possibly rebaptize
the wife. We'll see! Should be fun!
The other day, Elder Guerra and I were talking about what we
wanted in investigators. We wanted an investigator that would say, "I want
to know if this church is true. I want to follow Christ and I will do
everything I have to in order to get there." Then, the very next day, we
went to a new investigators house where she said pretty much exactly that. She
had gotten in an argument with her grandmother, who told her that she was
already baptized as a baby and didn't need to be baptized again, but the girl
told her grandma that it was now her turn to make the decision and that she
wanted this for herself. Soooo we were blessed with exactly what we wanted! I
don't think there is anything that compares to the feeling that you get when
you hear those words come out of the mouth of an investigator. It's pretty
fantastic. She'll be baptized here in a couple of weeks.
Well, that's about all that happened this week. This is the
last week of the transfer so who knows what will happen next week!
I love you all! Hope you all have a fantastic week!
-Elder Hopper #1
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