Hey yall! We had two 5.0 earthquakes this week.. pretty crazy if you ask me. The people here are also waiting for the big one. Our friend Luis gave us a coconut to eat this week.. WOW real coconut juice is fantastic! We also made some delicious cheesecake.. I know you're all jealous. We saw these 2 women get in a full out brawl in the street the other day.. It scared the poop outta me! I had to clue what to do because we were like 5 feet away when the 1st punch was thrown! My 1st instinct was to intervene, but then thank goodness I thought, and decided to run away. hehe. Also, some drunk guy wanted us to let him sleep in our apartment with him.. we said no we cant do that.. he replied saying "don't you guys teach that you give people shelter" okay maybe he had a point, but I don't think President Bruce with be so happy to hear that we have been letting drunk people sleeping with us in our pension.
Here in the mission you see so many great things.. So many great people and have the opportunity to be a witness of many miracles. This week we were able to have interviews with president Bruce once again. He is too good at what he does.. whatever he does do... he does it perfect. We are the luckiest missionaries in the world to be able to have him as our president. We also have the best members in our little branch.. So many humble and caring people that are willing to do whatsoever thing for us. One of the most poor members of our branch was walking down the street yesterday and she yells out to us, we talk to her for a few minutes and then when we leave she shakes my hand with $2.00 inside. I was so happy.. because that money is a lot for her and her family but she was sooo willing to give to us. Also, there is another lady in our branch who we are building another ¨shed¨ for her and her son to live it. Literally a small room without electricity is what she is going to live it. So humble but even while we were building this house for her she went to a little store and bought us a few pieces of bread to eat after. Its incredibly how blessed I am to help and share my life with these top quality type of people.
We had an incredible lesson with one of our investigators named Jairo Gallardo this week. He is your typical 19 year old kid of the world. He has lots of problems. But when I look at him, he reminds me of someone close to me back home. Really, I think he looks like him too. But anyways, we were teaching him and we started talking about his mother that died a few years back.. and that he can have the chance to live with her once again. and that all he needs to do is follow Gods Commandments. and he, on the verge of tears says "okay, I need to change, I want to change. I will do whatever I need to do." Wow, The spirit testifies to us when we need to make changes in our lives. We can overcome those BIG and small challenges that hold us back from becoming Gods chosen sons and daughters. I know that through the atonement of Jesus Christ, its possible. He has been through it all. He is there, just waiting for us to open the door that he is already knocking on.
Love, Elder Buck William Howard
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