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| Elder Gali & Elder Brayton visit the beach in Caldera. |
Everything that happened this week was amazing! This was
the week of Thanksgiving and everyone here knows what that is but no one
actually celebrates it. But Black Friday is the bandwagon that everyone has jumped on around here. They don`t even try to translate it, they just say black Friday
like normal. But back to the real stuff. This year for me and my comp
we didn`t spend Thanksgiving grubbing down like usual. In fact, the day
of we just had some soup for lunch and some chicken and rice. It was
very different from all of the previous years of celebrating
Thanksgiving for both Elder Gali and I. But the quantity of food that we
lacked that day was more than made up for with the lessons and the new
people that we met. Sebastian, for one, is doing a ton better
physically. He has some good color in his face and has more energy than
he has had in the past. I was able to learn a bit more about his
situation this week so that we could help him out a bit more. Basically
something happened in his life about 4 years ago, and that left him
really sad and eventually he got depressed. After some more time without
doing anything about it that, depression started to affect him mentally
and physically. More time passed and he lost a ton of weight and he
just kind of shut down to the world. He still has a couple of problems
from all weight that he lost but is overcoming that with much patience
and faith. I cant believe how much he has improved in just the last 2
weeks! He is walking around and getting back some meat on his bones, and
even better, has had less panic attacks from being out with many
people. Just goes to show how much can be done through ones faith and
the faith and actions of the family.
I
have got to at least mention about Enzo. I am not sure if I have
mentioned about him before but if I haven`t, I will introduce y'all.
First off he has the same name as Enzo Ferrari, how cool is that!
Second, he is a reference from our land lord here and they are family
friends. When Enzo mentioned to him that he was looking for something
that made more sense and could be explained better than just saying to
save to be saved. So he told him to go to church next Sunday
and for him to see for himself. Long story short, Enzo found what he
was looking for and now me and him are just about best buds. He, just
like myself, tries to understand everything that he can about a topic
that interests him, including religion. When you find someone like that
with 2 missionaries like Elder Gali and I who love to talk and
explain... it leads to some very long lessons. Not that there is
anything wrong with lessons like that, actually I really enjoy them
because Enzo is always asking really good questions in an effort on his
part to deepen his knowledge and testimony. By far the highlight of my
week was when I gave Enzo a book with different art work from the
scriptures, the life of Jesus, and even some photography. The book was
mine but because he is so interested in different styles of painting and
within the book there are various styles, plus all the works have a
scripture story to go with it, I figured it could be good for him to
study said stories if he got interested. When I gave it to him he was so
lit up and happy. I kind of thought that he was going to cry but he
held him self together. I am hoping that he will get baptized this next
month because then after he could begin to prepare to serve his own
mission if he wanted to! Enzo is 19 btw.
Today,
because it is the last P-day for Elder Walker and one other missionary
in our zone, we organized to go to the beach in Caldera. It was fun and
we ended up meeting up with the missionaries out there to have a BBQ on
the beach and playing soccer. We actually started off playing football
but the Latinos didn`t understand that they couldn`t tackle, so we cut
that game short just so no one would get hurt. All of the gringos that
were out there got super burnt, myself included... something that did
happen was the Elder that was having back problems in my district ended
up having to go home because of his back. The doctors here couldn`t find
the exact cause so that kind of worried everyone more, so he got sent
to the states to have a second opinion.
Have a great week!!
Love,
Elder Brayton
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