Claudios

Hey all!  This was a fantastic week, we had some terrible days and some fantastic days and I'm excited to tell you all about it!  But first I need to tell you the fun stories of the week!

So the four of us got to the house of a less active member that we're teaching, and her little nephew was sitting on her porch dipping bread in yogurt and then eating it.  Elder Cook asks:

''Are you.... dipping bread in yogurt?''

Little boy:  ''It's the same!''

''... the same as what?''

Little boy:  ''It's the same thing!''

''The same as what?!''

This conversation continued until the less active came out and explained to us that it's the same as eating bread and then eating yogurt.  I'm not really sure how the logic of all that came about but I thought that it was pretty hilarious.

Burdened with mayonnaise!  So in Spanish ''burdened'' and ''loaded'' are the same word, so sometimes it's hard to tell which one someone wants to say.  So last week we were eating Choripanes (hot dog type things) and I put a good deal of mayo on mine and Elder Cook tells me in Spanish that it's ''loaded with mayonnaise.''  But I was confused and took it to mean ''burdened'' so I replied in English, ''It's... burdened with mayonnaise?''  We laughed about it for a while and I said that that would make a good band name:  Burdened with Mayonnaise.  Then Elder Cook wrote a screamo song on the spot that went like:  ''SHE *drum drum*  left ME *drum drum*..... BURDENED WITH MAYONNAISE''  I thought it was pretty funny.  I then took a picture of Elder Cook and Elder Espindola acting out how being burdened with mayonnaise would look like, which I'll send hopefully in this email.

So a while ago we went pday shopping while fasting (bad idea) and bought a lot of weird food.  One of these was a weird fruit that I'd never seen before in my life, I think it might be a dragon fruit?  I'll send a picture of it.  So this morning we decided to finally make juice out of the weird fruits that we baught, so we cut the top off, gutted the insides to make the juice, then poured the juice back into the shell and drank it with a mate-straw to filter all the seeds and gunk out, and it actually turned out pretty delicious!  Then, just to complete the effect, Elder Cook put his Guaso pancho on and I got the house guaso hat and all four of us sat there drinking juice out of our dragon fruits dressed as guasos.  Realizing how weird the situation was, Elder Cook explained how a few years ago he would never have been able to imagine his life coming to this.  It was hilarious, I'll also send pictures.

So the week!  There were too awesome things that happened this week and the rest of the week was kind of normalish.  Sadly, what progress Francisco made seems to have disappeared and he's back to saying that he will never get baptized regardless of any spiritual confirmation he gets.  So that was definitely disappointing.  We did have an amazing lesson with Juana and Romildo though, where Juana told us of a dream she had when she was doubting in God and asked in prayer if He really existed.  She told us that it's because of the dream that she knows the God is real and that He loves her, and when she started to talk about how her faith has helped her in her life, she started to weep.  She went on to tell us that she doesn't believe in any church because of the experience, that she just knows that there's a God, that there's Jesus, there's the Holy Ghost, and that we shouldn't pray to saints or to anything else.  It was a very powerful experience, and we promised her that just as God answered that prayer with revelation, He can also answer her prayer to know that the things we're teaching her are more than just pretty words, but that they're things that God has specifically in store for her.  She promised us that she would have a conversation with her Father, and that she'd take some time to spiritually prepare herself.  I was pretty stunned through the whole experience, she is really someone who just gets it, and I think it has a lot to do with her dream.

Claudio!  We had an awesome lesson with Claudio this week where he agreed to pray with his girlfriend about a baptismal date!  Woooooooot!  Dominic (the girlfriend) was super happy after the lesson, she's been waiting for this for a long time.  So we'll see how it goes with him!

We found a new investigator this week!  His name is also Claudio, and he's super prepared.  He told us that he wants to change his life and leave everything behind, and he accepted a baptismal date for the 28 of May without hesitation!  It was awesome, we're also super excited about him.  We haven't been able to teach him again so we're not sure if he has anything holding him back from baptism, but knowing Chile it's very likely that he'll have to leave behind a lot of things.  So we'll see how it goes!

I'm out of time!  Hopefully I'll be able to tell more about the two Claudios next week!  I love you all a ton!  Take care!  Excited to skype!

Love

Elder Fox