Elder Benjamin Winslett's Mission: 7/9

Well... This week has been an interesting week. Like a mega emotional rollercoaster.

We actually did talk to the teacher and she told us that since the talk we had she has felt so much better and so much happier. We went to her again and taught her, set a date with her for baptism and got her super excited for it. So she will be getting baptized this next week. And yes I will be mentioning to her about the sealing and the temple and what not.

None of mine have gone to the temple yet. They have to wait one year after there baptizm to be able to go in to get sealed and what not. After 3 months they can go in to do baptizms for the dead, but yeah. Actually not this coming saturday but the one after that I will be going to a families sealing. This is a family that Barben baptized a while back and they are going in the 21st of July to get sealed! So excited for that!

Drunk guys... There seem to be alot of them here. We found another one passed out on the street the other day. And another one told us he has meet Santa Clause and Dracula. So funny... He comes up to us and starts talking about all the Catholic Saints and what not and how he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgin Mary- They just changed her name and started worshipping her, because she is the "Holy Mother of God") So, since he was drunk we asked him if he knew Santa (Santa in Spanish means saint, so it is saint clause, which is also were the Saint Nicholas thing comes from.) and he said yes, and that he is a really cool dude and how he has gotten things from him on Christmas. So funny.... Then we ask him about Dracula and he told us that he has tried to suck his blood on a number of times, and that he does not like him. (All that said, just with more bad words. Drunks are so colorful with there word choice.) So we laughed, gave hime a pamphlet and left. The drunk that I had that other experience with ended up not even living at the address he gave us. So we drpped him obviously.

The paino I played on is electric and has preprogrammed hymns in it so I have to just press play! But yeah, I am learning hymns right now, but hopefully I can get up to the better stuff before coming home.

Ok as for stuff that happened this week... well remember that family we found a few weeks ago that I had that super awesome experience with? Well, they dropped us. To explain that a little. We go to the house, the mom is the only one there. To explain her... she has a mental disease and so it fogs her decision making a bit. So anyways, she starts her drop talk, we try to recover the situation, but it does not work. She does not want to change her way of life, even though they had that awesome experience. So we were about to give up and as she was saying her thanks for the time we spent on her dealy bob, both me and my companion felt prompted to give her a blessing. I do the anointing and my companion gives the sealing and blessing. The room is instantanously filled with the spirit, but not the normal heat in your chest, but a great peace. As I was listening to my companion, I began to see a fuxuating light under my eyelids. I wanted to open my eyes to see what it was but a voice told me rather profondly that "Do not open your eyes!" So I did not. My companion finished the blessing and we said our goodbyes. Both me and my companion were on a spiritual high after that. We both felt as though, if she had the faith, she was going to be healed of her illness. And so we both fell as though sometime in the future they will get baptized, when we do not know but sometime.

We caught two other Elders in our area the other day. They ended up giving us a reference to a family that we thought wanted to get baptized. We get to the lesson and turns out that they are all baptized except for the 8 year old daughter and are just inactives... Sucked because I really want to baptize and we are having difficulties finding right now. I thought this was going to be our big break... but no... The daughter wont even count as baptizm because she is 8 and so it will count for the ward... Oh well I guess.

Went to a wedding this week. Our Landladies daughter got married this Saturday and we stayed for the Ceremony. They are not as cool as I thought they were... All they do is a lawyer comes, the bride and groom sign the papers of marriage and that is all. So yeah. I guess the big fansyness of weddings is not until the church wedding, and for them will be in the catholic church. Pictures attached!

WE were in a prayer circle on Sunday. We went to go teach a family and only the mom was there she then told us she wanted to pray. and so she grabbed our hands and started prying really funny... I had to hold back the laughs... So funny.... Hahahaha.

All of our church goers ended up not being there when we passed by to pick them up and so we had noone at church this week...

Photos! They are of several things. The wedding of the landlady´s daughter and now son in law. Me being wierd before hand. And the obnoxiously funny bird that is comparable to Buddy, Paco! I will send others in another email.

It has been a tough last couple of weeks, but I feel that we will get our reward for pushing through this soon. 2 more weeks in this change... So we are going to go crazy this week in finding people.

Well, I will be sending another email with mroe pictures and what, but yeah this is all of the email.

Love you guys so much!

Take care!

District Leader Elder TSFWWWP Winslett