Hey madre and padre and fianakaviako,
it's good to hear from you as always! So I don't have much time, but I'll try to get as much in as I can.
This week was great! It was hard, but good. Here's some random facts from this week:
We had 33 investigators at church this week, 36 investigators with baptism dates for the 24 of September, 17 new investigators from this week, and 48 progressing investigators, so we are full of work. Also my goal that I made for this week was writing in my journal at 9:45 every night. Two pairs of pants have ripped and torn from my bike, most of my shirts already have stains, and my shoes are permantely dirty but now I just blend in a little bit more with the style for here haha! I love it though! I had a banana split today, and that was definitely the best thing that my mouth has tasted since the mtc!! We move next monday, I'm not too excited for that because there's a lot to move without vehicles or other things help, but I guess I've been pretty well prepared in my life for moving after all the times we've moved before. We had 180 people at church yesterday, and we only had 136 the week before so that was a big jump. Our church isn't a ward building, so it's nothing like back home, but it's 1 floor out of huge building. It has 4 average size classrooms and that's including the branch presidents office, and it has a chapel that's just a little bit bigger than our foyer at our winter haven church. And we usually have about 20 that have to sit out in the hallway each week cause the chapels so full. But I think they're supposed to split the branch pretty soon! I don't know if that will be hard or good or both, but I'm pretty excited to see! Yesterday, I fasted, and that was one of the hardest fasts of my life because we rode our bikes to a few of farthest areas that have lots of hills and its summer time here and I had my suit on and many times I felt like I couldn't make it up the hill without a drink of water, but each time I just set my mind to it and looked to the top of the hill and kept pedalling and I made it each time somehow. Even though, at the time it was so hard to continue my fast, by the end of the day me and my companion saw the fruits of the fast. We met a family last week of an old father and four of his boys, each in their 20s and older, playing dominos and we taught them all the first lesson last sunday, which went pretty well and they seemed pretty interested, but they didn't come to church. But when we went this time, we reviewed the first lesson again and some of the guys families were there and they asked probably 20 super difficult(especially when you can barely understand the questions and respond with what you actually want to say in their language) questions, but I feel like becuase we had pushed through our fast that day, we were able to answer every question clearly and convince them to really want to know the truth. And becuase of that even at the end when I committed them to come to church next week they kind of huddled together and said, "do we want to do this?" And the, kind of leader of the boys, piped up and said, "If we want to know the truth then we have to." And then they all turned to their dad and asked, "Do you want to go?" And about a second after they asked, he said, "yup, let's go." It was a pretty amazing experience because if these people actually do their part and ask God if this is true and go to church, which they're going to do now, then they're gonna be some amazing members of the church because their faith will be firm because they literally asked every little and big question they could think of to try to prove the first lesson wrong and right just to see if it was true, and we proved every one of their questions with the scriptures and with common sense and analogies, because, we had the spirit with us so strongly, which I believe was because of pushing through the fast.
So everythings great! I don't have any time left, so I'll try to email pictures next week!
Love for eternity,
Elder Waters
God be with you till we meet again
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