Hey everybody! So another week come and gone. Everything is
going well down here. The weather is changing pretty fast, when I got here it
stayed pretty dark until around 8 or 9 but now when we wake up there is light
coming through the windows. I keep hearing that eventually it will stay light
here for about 22 hours of the day generally. That will be interesting
definitely but anyways!
(We lost our Grandma Bassett on Sept 22nd) So about Grandma. Wow. That's kind of all I can say about
that, but she's definitely not suffering anymore. We just have to remember we
can't stop the hand of God from calling people back to him. I hope Grandpa B is
holding up well during this time. And I hope the funeral goes well!
I don't know what else to say about that subject so moving
on! This week was a pretty tough one, we had a LOT of teaching appointments
that fell through so that was dumb. I lost count of how many but one day we had
every single thing fall through and just walked around the street all day, like
until we went home again, trying to find people to teach and to see if the next
appointment would work out. So yeah. Lame. But we do have two investigators who
are really progressing a lot. The people we find who are the best are the ones
who have members in the family. One of them (Sebastian) is married to a member,
their whole family are members, his father in law used to be bishop, their
cousin is our mamita... So basically he's been being prepared for years. Which
is awesome. Even though every time we go to their house they give us loads of
food and if we keep going there we are going to get fat... But yeah it's pretty
great. (The situation and the food haha) So we're excited for him.
There are a few other people we are teaching but none of
them really are as close as Sebastian or Diego (who I've talked about before)
but still good. Today after P-day ends we have an appointment assigned for
every half hour until we go home. It's gonna be intense. But one of the people
we are teaching tonight totally had a change of heart in the last couple of
days and it's seriously a testimony builder of the Book of Mormon because he
didn't want to listen to us for weeks so we've just been teaching his wife and
son but the other day we went to teach them and he sat in the room listening
while changing contacts to his new phone and we read Mosiah 2 and talked about
how to hold the family together and stuff. Anyways so the next time we passed
by their house the wife (Gloria) was gone but he (Victor) was sitting at the
table and we knocked on the door and he said "Hey how are you guys come
in, take a seat!" and we were like "uhhh... Yeah definitely!" So
he told us about how he feels about their family and the issues they have been
having so we talked to him for a little while about what we thought could help
bring the family together and shared scriptures with him and he prayed at the
end of the lesson, which is basically amazing because we had asked him like 4
times previously if he wanted to pray and he said he didn't feel ready or he
didn't want to and all that jazz so we were super excited that he prayed. And
we almost got him to go to church, he said "I would go today but I have to
work" So we were close. Stupid work. But it's cool because my companion
told me that the first time he walked into that house he got a feeling like
"one day everybody in this family will be baptized" so we're seeing
the hand of God working on him, softening his heart through the scriptures and
stuff. So it's pretty sweet.
Ummm Besides that what else has happened this week... We
discovered that our gas heater probably has something wrong with it and that if
you leave it on over night you will get sick. Hence, I'm kind of sick. Baha.
But whatever. Oh, if you ever decide to send me a package I'd like it to
include my piano music and a new journal. I have like a month and a half
left to write in my journal (I think, I counted like 50 pages... Give or take.
Anyways) So that would be cool. And I'm including pictures in this email
and I will send one more email to Britt with more pictures so she can put them
on my blog or whatever. And Everybody has asked for pictures of the family
soooo.... Yeah that'd be cool haha.
I think the letter I sent took longer because the president
and all them had to work out getting those pictures printed out because I have
recieved one hand written letter that took (I believe) three weeks. The date on
the envelope says the 25th of august and I got it on the 15th of Sept. so yeah
Letters still take a long time but I don't think they will all take 7 weeks
like the one that was sent to the family... Haha. But regardless I'm glad that
you got it.
Umm to answer questions to Ethan, it is different being down
here in the cold all the time: It's not as cold as Utah can get on the coldest
day but still pretty cold. I knew that you would have Mr Clark and It's not
really surprising he calls you Bassett and that everybody calls you mini
Preston. Baha. But why didn't you do marching band ya putz!? Oh well, I'm over
it. Your schedule looks pretty fun how it is so keep it up.
Yeah I think that's all really. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
I had like 130 to choose from so they should be decent ones. But Britt will get
more in about 5 minutes
Love you all.
Talk at'cha next week.
Elder Bassett
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