What a week it has been.. I will be honest, I am wicked sick right now so sorry for another bummer letter but I barely had the energy to walk to the computer place. After conference last night, we came home and goodbye to the health of Elder Howard! I was up all night puking my guts out and some other crazy things. I'm pretty sure it was food poisoning from the lunch that we ate( the lady that cooked it is from Cusco, Peru... have fun Samo) So I have little energy right now. However, I still had an interesting week!
Well Elder Deck and I saw one of the most Sketch things Saturday night.. So it is 4:30 Am and we are dead asleep. Then we hear this loud screaming.. at first I thought it was these preachers that come in front of the apartments and yell their words to the building. but Elder Deck hopped out of bed and dragged me out of bed too.. then I listened to what they were saying "voy a matarle"! What the crap! That means I'm going to Kill you.. then we look right outside our window and laying on the ground its this man surrounded by like 10 of his hommies.. they help the guy up (this is no more than 20 feet of our window) he stumbles across the small street. They help him down against a wall.. then we see him holding his left side of his body, there was something sticking out, the guy got stabbed! So we keep watching for like 5 min, during this time he is doing the head bob thing, like he doesn't have any control of his body. 30 seconds before the ambulance gets there, he stops moving. The Ambulance gets there and the paramedics jump out, they pull out the stretcher and literally throw his body on it. He arms are flailing off the sides and isn't moving. The ambulance takes off.. Elder Deck and I Fetching watched a guy die!!! WHAT IN THE WORLD??? it just so happened that the cops didn't even show up.. but whatever. So I crawled back in to bed, said a little prayer and went back to bed. I just felt sick ya know.. eww. But honestly I feel safe here. That part doesn't worry me, but that type of stuff actually happens and I witnessed it. Crazy!
On a brighter note... Conference was one of a kind for me.. its funny how much your prospective of conference changes when you are a missionary. If I have learned 1 thing on my mission, Its the significance of a true and living prophet and the organization of the church. Well, there are a few gringos in my zone that don't speak Spanish very well, so we were hoping to watch it in English. We had a conference in the same building a few weeks ago where we got to watch the program in English, so we knew it was possible! but we go to the church and what do you know, Spanish... Fetch! So Elder Rivas and I book it to the closest Internet cafe to watch it over the web.. thank goodness we did that, because the other elders that stayed said they didn't understand a thing! To be honest, during Elder Hollands talk, I was sitting in a little tiny cubicle crying my little butt off! It is never too late to accept Christ into your life, He is always there helping you along, but it takes some effort. He wants you to be happy, God wants you to be happy.. and I can testify there is no true happiness without your family, and without the knowledge we have of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Love Elder Howard..
ps. I am finally sending out my letters!! I'm so sorry everyone I didn't get them out sooner! I honestly feel bad.. Ive been crazy busy with everything but all is good now!
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