So this week we had a couple of awesome experiences. While we were walking around one area contacting, Elder Reynolds spotted a very strange fruit on a tree outside someone's house, so we felt prompted to knock on their door, with half of our intention being to preach them the gospel and the other half being to ask them what the heck that fruit was. So we did, and a friendly old man came out and immediately let us in. His name was Felix. He is more than 80 years old (didn't tell us the exact number) and still works as a veterinarian (did i spell the word for pet doctor right?). He started asking us questions about our beliefs and told us about all these things about God that he's been meditating for years. Turns out, everything he had been thinking about was almost exactly what we believe about the plan of salvation! He was really excited to learn that we believe the same stuff he does and accepted the invitation to read our folleto and the Book of Mormon and pray about it.
Then when we were leaving our visit with him he invited me to take a coconut off of his tree and Elder Reynolds grabbed the other strange fruit that was growing outside. Someone has since told us what that fruit is called, but I forgot the name. But turns out it's not actually edible and they just use the shell to make bowls and stuff. So the rest of that afternoon we were carrying around obnoxiously heavy fruits everywhere and people were giving us weird looks.
We also put a baptismal date on a nice girl named Blanca. Her "husband" is a super less active member but they're both excited to come to church and for her to be baptized! Her date is for the 9th (the last Saturday of my mission) so wish us luck!
That's about it for this week. Or all I feel like writing anyway.
Elder Bingham
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| Wilderness Explorer Elder Bingham spotted this crane on a post and it led us into a longish conversation about panda babysitters. See if you can guess why. I will bring a prize home to whoever guesses correctly. |
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| We baked cookies on an electric stove. Mission kitchen tricks |
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| Walter B., the coconut. I drew him myself scraping with my fingernail |
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| us with our large fruit. Elder Reynolds named his Keith |
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| I ran into the Lujan family from Belen! they were up here organizing a giant mission wide efy type thing for the YSA! |
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