Hump day

Hump day should be deleted from the missionary vocabulary..because i am certainly not going back down. 

 

i am definitely not done working my way up...... if anything it's sad that i only have one year left.. i don't even know where the first year went. obviously i was aware, but it went by to fast..i guess it's what they all say no? i don't even want to think how fast this next year is going to come.. Although I'm super excited because i see how much i've progressed as a person and a missionary this past year.......and  i can't even imagine how much i will change this upcoming year. pumped for that..

 

this week was awesome...the work is just...clicking.. we got so many suavecitos, or soft baptismal commitments..  we are.. well, i am just so tired of people avoiding the baptismal.  they just don't want to change or leave their traditions. or they just don't understand or don't want to understand our message because they know secretly that it's true. so i just decided to go on this bold strait up approach.. bold but not overbearing. and i am literally fighting for their salvation and well being... can i just tell you a quick story.. ok super summarized version.. we are in a lesson with a member. we finish the resurrection/b.o.m/prayer.. we asked the soft baptismal question.. he said he is catholic..(20 min before he said he doesn't believe in what they believe, just the traditions he believes) soooo after some simple explaining of the "chain" b.o.m-joseph smith-true church.. we asked again.. .he said that it would be to hard to leave his traditions.  at this point i'm thinking "does this guy even love Jesus, does he even know the importance of him.... of our message!?" so i asked him who Jesus was for him.. he told me life, that Jesus gives him life.. so i said more or less something like this.. "so forget all religions. forget all other churches and their beliefs.. you tell me right now. if Jesus told you to leave your traditions of the catholic church, and to follow him, to walk with him. would you do that?".. then this guy tells me that it would be to hard for him to do that.... i was stunned, i didn't even know what to say... so then i paused and rephrased that little situation a little more in depth... and said something like this.. " so your church....that you know is not the true church. and the traditions it has... are more important to you than Jesus?" to make the story a little shorter i basically said that when he knows that these things are true it would be like Jesus asking him to do that.... and he knows these things to be true he would be baptized.. it literally felt like a battle for his salvation. it was crazy.