Besides that, this week was one of those weeks where we just got completely rejected! Utterly rejected! We knocked doors every day for 4-5 hours before our appointments at night and I can only remember being able to enter 1 house!!!!!! But something that I have learned on my mission is that it does nothing to get down about things! Just makes you miserable! I have truly learned to be happy in whatever circumstance! We only have 1 umbrella between the two of us, its a long story, but it was pouring and me and my companion just laugh! Trying to share this umbrella and getting soaked! I have learned that the funniest and happiest moments are the moments that seem to be the most miserable put that you make happy!
We are teaching a family of nine right now, they are from Nicarauga, but they always feed us. Always! And we love them. But one of them is an older man his name is Erasmo. He is about 58, but his hair is still black and he has worked a hard labor job since he was 8 years old, so he is still in better shape than most 40 year olds. But he has come to church about 3 times and is awesome. Just like most people that live in Costa Rica they have a hard time giving up their dang coffee. He was telling us his life story, And I couldn´t help it, I just started bawling. He was beat by his mom. She even slashed him with a machete, and his Grandpa saved his life, and then when he was a older teenager, he got taken by the army and was forced to fight for 5 years. And I just couldn´t hold back the tears. We just take for granted the blessings that we have. The fact that we don´t have to worked cuting coffee at 8 years old to feed your family. Or any of the stuff that this poor man had to deal with. Trying to hold back the tears, I told him ¨Erasmo sé que hay una persona que ha sentido todo lo que usted ha aguantado, y que el nunca le abandonó y es nuestro Salvador Jesucristo. (Erasmus I know that there is a person who has felt everything that you have endured, and the he never left you, and is our Savior Jesus Christ).¨ Simple words but I could feel the spirit testify of them. Very very humbling being here in such a great country with such wonderful people.
To finish off the week of miracles we had an activity called Culture night, where everyone invited people and then brought food from their country. We hadn´t had time to make anything so for our lunch hour so we sacrificed it to make something quick easy and American (at least we think its american) Pancakes hahahahahaahha! Personally I´m not a big pancake fan unless they have chocolate chips but I made 40 pancakes in 40 minuets and we got ahold of some maple syrup and went to the activity with those. By the time we got there, the pancakes where cold but I have never seen such a swarm over food like I did! The ticos where obssed with the pancakes!!!! Some came back algunos veces for pancakes, (I don´t remember how to say that in english!) But it was awesome and we had a ton of investigators there, and they loved it!
Also a funny little experience that we had, we went to visit the family of Erasmo with or ward mission leader this last Thursday, and we were teaching the Plan of Salvation and all the family goes to church with us except for Juan who is like the father of the family. And we where explaining the Mundo de los espíritus about spirit paradise and spirt prision. And our WML says Elders what happens to the people who hear the gospel and then reject it, and we said, well they would go to spirit prison and he says ¨Oiga Juan¨and the whole entire family starts laughing and clapping their hands! For three or four minuets laughing hysterically! Elder Power and I just looked at each other horrified! We didn´t know what to say! In the same lesson they where asking about what day jesus was born on! And they where all arguing over it. But our lider misional says the day that Jesus was born was the day that I accepted him in my heart! And they erupted again and started yelling amen and halleluah and clapping their hands and it was crazy once again my companion and I just looked at each other wondering what we even should do! But it was a fun experience and they all are going to come to church! And hopefully once they quit coffee they will all be able to be baptized!
Well on the spiritual side, I feel as if my favorite scripture changes every week. But this week my favorite scripture in the Book Of Mormon is 3 Nephi 27:27 I challenge you all to read it but I love love love it when it says ¨Por lo tanto, ¿Que clase de hombres habéis de ser? En verdad os digo Aun Como Yo Soy. I love this scripture what time of men (or women) should we be? Even as our savior I love that, many times while I am doing something this thought comes into my head and I think, Am I being like the savior. Surely if we all thought like this it would change how we think and act.
And my favorite scripture in the bible is the following. Juan 3 19
Y esta es la condenación: que la luz vino al mundo, pero los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz, porque sus obras eran malas. I love this scripture as well, in the end our damnation will be that our savior came to this word but we didn´t follow him because we loved our little sins. Our ¨pet¨sins as Uncle Kevin says (he was my seminary teacher as a freshman). And I love the power of this scripture!
But this is all I have to write this week! I will tell yall next week how Byran's baptism went!
I know that this is the true Church of God and that He loves His children, that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that we have a prophet here today! I know my Savior lives.
Elder Elijah Larson
Yiego Nal Nish
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