Not of the World

 i feel blessed today because i can actually see the blue sky. i wish you guys good luck on the project. sounds pretty intense with a lot of detailed time. i cant even believe that it is almost Halloween. i am just amazed every day of how sheltered we are from the world. where we literally live in the world but not of it. i consider it a blessing. but sometimes its just nice to know things.. like we heard that they found some pyramids in the gulf of Mexico! is that even true? but i love it at the same time because the world just kinda sounds.....well, scary. obviously there are a lot of good things. but its just so filthy.. maybe iv forgotten of how good the "Utah bubble" was.

 

this week was productive. but everyone's schedule just didn't line up with ours. passing by at the wrong time. people not being home.. although we had some quality lessons. not a lot but some good ones.. we set a date for a lady called Lupita for the 2 of dec. we are pumped for that... the challenge is work... work work work.. why do people work so much i just don't understand.. we are working very hard to help people understand the importance of what we have instead of work.. we will win the fight. the work will go on and worldly things like work will not be an issue. baptisms are coming and we are ready with our hearts and minds, strengths and anything we can muster to have a baptism.

 

love you guys

elder garlock

Hola buenas tardes

Every Monday morning i try and think of stuff to say, and nothing always comes to mind.  yet at the end i am always trying to cram stuff in, we set three dates of baptism this week. whoohoo! pretty pumped for that.. although they were soft dates.. but that's how they all are in the beginning.. the first one we set with our investigator Javier. he is sweet.. just super busy.. the other three was a family.. (the most stereotypical Mexican family ever! haha i love them so much!!) the dads name is Jose, and his wife is named Maria Guadalupe, with three daughters. the parents have absolutely no education therefore it is very.....very...very hard to help them understand.. a lot of repetition..change of subject really fast. sometimes when i teach white people they look at me with that face saying " dude, I'm not a retard". The teaching culture is soooo much different.

It's kind of hard to switch off sometimes because we will have an in depth conversation with someone then the next moment we have to simplify the message so somebody with the age of 8 can understand us. i love it because teaching Mexicans is so  fun.. white people are gross and mean.. Mexican are stubborn and nice. which one would you prefer?

 

Nothing really to tell.. me and elder Madsen thought we were going to get shot/robbed.. we were opening the door to the car getting out, and some super sketchy looking guy with a bag and a sweater, walking towards us. he was holding to what looked exactly like a pistol in the pocket of his sweatshirt. started to do a weird jog towards our car making eye contact..(yes, in this moment i was freaking out inside) so naturally i got out and kicked him in the knee stopping his jog and then grabbing the gun while he took it out.. haha jk, i just froze waiting to see what would happen.. so he changed direction a little bit and just passed us while we sat there in the car. side note( i have NO IDEA WHY i said with my door half open "hola buenas tardes)....it just came out of my mouth i don't even know why, but he didn't say anything, just disappeared in the yard behind our car...it was super intense adrenalin was going through my body for the next 10 min. just thinking what if, what if, what would i have done. well that's my little story. I'm super pumped for general conference.

 love you guys a lot.

elder garlock