The Week of Turkey

This email was sent November 20, 2017

Howdy güeys! This week we have Thanksgiving and fortunately we only have 1 dinner appointment. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful but having multiple dinner appointments in the same day is a real chore. Sometimes people of Spanish descent view missionaries as Tamagotchi pets that need to be fed mucho. But I can’t complain. I’d much rather eat mucho really good food than not eat.

And then this week we spent a lot of time visiting less active young single adults. It was a really good experience being able to work with those that have strayed from the church a little bit. Many of them talked about wanting to come back to church. I love finding and teaching new people as much as I enjoy rescuing the wandering sheep of the church. Yesterday at the YSA branch a member talked about how he spent a few years out of the church and how much those that reached out to him during that time helped him. More than anything it takes a lot of love to help others get from where they are to where they need to be.

As well we’ve been working with Francisco and Leslie and they told us they’d come to church. They weren’t able to make it but they have tons of potential.

We also received some referrals that are very promising so we will visit those this week and see if we can get some more people progressing again.

De todos modos, hope y’all spend some time being grateful for what you have!

Elder Barrus

THM