This transfer will finish my training so I'm almost a full-fledged missionary out here. Honestly, I don't feel like I'm in training I'm pretty adjusted but technically I still am.
This week was more busy but not as busy, we had more visits thank goodness but still struggling to find people to teach. We have a big area as everyone can see in the picture I sent but here's why it's really tough:
1. People work more than ever during summer here - like they're workaholics.
2. The public transportation on this island is horrible. We have a schedule we follow as missionaries and the bus schedule conflicts with this a lot, so about 75% of my area I can't visit.
3. The area is so big that even if we find people in some of these areas to teach they may never be able to come to church.
If anyone gets the picture we're in a pickle here. We've tried talking to the president about bringing a car here and he said all he can offer us at the moment are bikes which wouldn't do a lot.
Please pray for us to find ways to find people and bring people to church. We're seriously in a hole and in 2 weeks one of us is gonna have to take over and figure it out.
We've tried also to fix the way we contact people. We've realized that we've been out in Manacor town so many times that people don't even look at us or talk to us. The other day we wanted help with a map and we asked a man for help and immediately without even knowing what we are saying just shuts us down. All we want is help with the map and after chasing him down and explaining it he was the most kind person and helped us without thinking about it. Obviously, there's a problem here, so how are we solving it? We're putting ourselves out there as English teachers. It's a more casual way to set up visits with people and that way slowly we can work them towards the gospel and so far it's working. We had 4 visits this last week of English classes that were fantastic. People see that English is useful and so they come and learn from us and with warming up to us we share a quick gospel message with them at the end and they're totally open to it. So that's what we're working on now, we are always looking for new people to teach.
Also, our friend Antonio from Honduras is going to be baptized for sure the 15th of this month!! He's literally the most prepared and faithful man we have ever met. He can't read so we bought a speaker and he's listening to the Book of Mormon in his free time. We taught him all the commandments and he's already living all of them, even before we taught them. Even tithing, he basically taught us what tithing is. He lives in a help center because he's homeless and doesn't have fixed work just temporary jobs and even with the little money and work he has he's willing to pay tithing. Just incredible truly amazing. We have 2 more lessons to teach and then he's all set to be baptized so stay tuned you guys. The 15th will be the baptism, my 4 month mark in the mission and transfer calls.
Honestly that all that happened this week, today we went to a rotisserie chicken restaurant today and ate that, literally they have shops for just rotisserie chicken, and that was really good. That's about it. Also, my companion was made district leader so we have 2 exchanges set up for this week which I'm excited for.
If theres any questions let me know! Please send emails throughout the week I love to hear from all of you, even family I haven't heard from in a while. Love you!
Elder Keith
1. So this is a picture of the island I serve on. Everything to the right of the pink dots is my area, basically half the island, its giant, this is why we need lots of prayers Haha.
2. Cooked some fried rice this last week that was so good, sometimes we go all out on meals because we have to try different things.
3. Scriptures I posted on Facebook that not everyone saw. They're some of my favorite about why bad things happen to people, why we can't blame God.
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