This week was really good! We taught a lot of people the restoration and a few of them were interested. After we teach the restoration we teach them about the book of Mormon. They all seemed really interested and told us that they wanted to be baptized. But none of them came to church this week so that was a little problem. We are just going to stress the importance of attending church with them this next week.
It rained a lot this week and I think it effected our desire to work a little. There was times when we couldn't see out our car window because it was so bad. Who ever said that it didn't rain in Texas was a liar!!
For every Area we do something that is called a blitz. It is when all the missionaries in one district go to one area and try and find as many people as we can. We did this on Thursday with one of the sister's area. They are in an area called Port Isabel. It is about 30 minutes away from our area. It is right next to the coast and we actually saw the ocean! We pretty much just talked with everyone that we could find and got the sisters a lot of referals.
On Saturday we were going to go blitz a different sisters area but It was raining so bad that they canceled it and told us to try and stay inside. So we just went and hungout with the conde's for a long time. We are still working with the dad to get him ready for baptism but i'm not sure how much of a desire he has to change. But we are going to keep trying. There family deserves the salvation!
On Friday we ate with one of the members in the Spanish branch. We had some of the best tacos that I have ever had! They were soo good!!
In the English ward there is proably about 800 people but only 100 of them are active. There is maybe 15 of them in our area. For the Spanish ward there is about 10 missionaries there every sunday.
I'm not sure what the numbers for our Spanish ward are but there is a lot of inactive members there as well. It's something that I want to work on and figure out why they go inactive and how we can help them.
This week I had a little discouragement. I felt like whenever someone found out that I was only 18 they just stopped listening to me. I felt like they didn't have any respect for me and it was a little hard. It's even worse when it's in Spanish because I sound like a two year old. It's been hard to learn Spanish. My companion and I only speak in English to each other and most of the people down here can speak in both English and Spanish. But I know that the people down here need my message so I need to stop feeling inadequate and I just need to start speaking Spanish every chance I get even if I say every word wrong! That is the only way that I can learn or get better!
I know that this church is true and that if the Lord really wanted to he could have 10 year olds out here preaching the gospel. The spirit is the one that converts people not me and I need to learn how to teach what the spirit wants me to teach. I hope you all have a good week!!
Love, Elder Hurst
This is a picture of dead frog. We see these everywhere! The frogs are stupid and run into the middle of the road and get ran over. So in the road you see dried up frogs basically everywhere!
Giving service.
Giving service.
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