week 85 Elder Cuevas

So Elder Soriano is officially dead (He went home on Wednesday) and so now I'm with Elder Soriano, from Mexicali, he's rather new in the mission but he's super cool and super hardworking. We've been killin' it. We get along SUPER WELL.

So I really don't have many stories... Or at least I don't remember much from this week. But this was kind of  a funny moment: Elder Cuevas and I were contacting in a part of our area called the Fraternidad and we started talking to a 50-year-old woman who happened to be a member. She was very bad mannered and rude with us and was laying on the sidewalk with her head resting on the wall, in what must have been the most uncomfortable position possible. Her name was Leti. We started speaking with her inviting her to church when she started to rant telling us to preach to someone who needed the gospel, and that we were wasting our time in talking to a woman who was already baptized and that she goes ''Everyday to the hospital and to the poor and the needy to share the word,'' That ''Every morning I read the Book of Mormon and the Bible, I swallow what I need to swallow and I share the word with those in need.'' And starting talking to us about how she was inactive because she had no friends in the ward because no one loved her and that she loved everyone and felt like an outcast, with all of the sudden a woman in her 30's passes by and waves at us and starts speaking gibberish in the voice of Minnie Mouse. So to our left we have the Bitter Wicked Witch of the West and on the right we have a crazy Minnie Mouse who is just yelling bleblelblbelblelelbelelblelelble, while wildly waving her arms. After about 30 seconds, Leti, the angry lady, yells ''SHUT UP YOU CRAZY." At Minnie Mouse. Minnie Mouse unphased continues and Leti starts insulting Minnie Mouse. I had to hide my face from laughing so hard. I asked a member later and it turns out that Leti is just a super bitter lady and the saddest thing is that Minnie Mouse became deaf when she was like 6 and they never took her to learn sign langauge and so she just can't communicate with anybody and it's just sad, and it made me feel bad for laughing.

Also on Saturday we were walking through a part called the Modesto to get to a part of our area called the Santa Margarita. It's honestly like a 5 minute walk but somehow I managed to get stopped by every (borracho) drunk in the street. Each one of them saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING. At the entrance we were stopped by a drunk in shirtless and in Jean shorts. He stops me to tell me he's a member and that he wants to go back to church. He says all of this IN ENGLISH. He asked for me to teach him English and to help him with his Alcoholism. He repeats this 5-6 times before he finally lets go of my hand. Then half way through the exact same thing, and at the very end I was stopped by a group of drunks and I just pulled out my Word of Wisdom Pamphlets and told them to go to church the next day. The craziest thing is that the drunks in the street of Honduras, know more English than the average Honduran.

ALSO. We were teaching a lesson to an older man we found contacting and got mad at me for saying that Jesus was the son of God, and that Jesus was the papa of God. I had no idea how to answer and realized he was nuts so we just cut the lesson short. At the end we offered service, like usual. But we usually specify in like cleaning or in helping carry heavy stuff so people don't just ask for money. But as soon as I offer to help carry heavy stuff, he says "well now that you're in the disposition to help. My walls are falling in on my house if you could fix that." And my companion just says laughing, "the walls are a little too heavy.'' and the old guy said OH. Look at this. and takes off his hat, and shows THIS HUGE SCAR ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. And told us that 30 years ago he was working as a security hard, when all of the sudden he got really sleepy and laid down. When he woke up 10 minutes later he found a machete wound in his head. IT WAS HONESTLY HUGE. He looked worse than Phineas Gage.

Anyway. That's just some weird stuff that went down this week.

We have 3 baptisms planned for April. And life is good.