Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Dear Family and Friends, This week has been pretty good. We actually had a pretty cool experience last Monday night. After the P-Day part of the day, we finally got in contact with this lady that we've been wanting to meet with for a while. When we first met her, she said that she's actually looking for a church to settle in. But that was weeks ago. Last Monday, we finally got in to teach her the Restoration. When we shared the Joseph Smith experience, she started tearing up. She told us that she's only felt the Spirit two or three times in her life. We asked her how she felt when she listened to the Joseph Smith story. She knows it's true :) It was awesome. The only thing is, she told us that she's more comfortable in English, even though she was born in Puerto Rico and speaks fluent Spanish. So we might be letting the English Elders teach her, because she might want to go to church in English. So, we'll see. This past Wednesday, we had interviews with President Jeppson. We talked with both President and Sister Jeppson. They were both great to talk to. It was one on one with both of them, so I got personal feedback on some questions. It was great! They're both amazing as "Mission Parents". I guess that's what they're called. Another crazy experience that happened the other day. We've been trying to get in contact with this less-active lady named Ranee. She works a lot, so it's been really hard to get a hold of her. One time, when we went by to try her again, an older lady sitting on the couch in the front room told the guy to let us in when he answered the door. This lady's name is Margarita. She's probably in her 70's and really frail. She's from Peru. As we're talking with her, she tells us that she was baptized in Peru about a year ago (that's how she knew who we were). However, she told us that she was never confirmed. That would explain why she's not on our ward list. She told us that she wants to get confirmed. We told her we would work on that for her. We talked with the Bishop and President Jeppson about what she would possibly have to do in order to get the confirmation. It's all a pretty crazy situation. A few days after that, we came to realize that she was most likely baptized years and years ago. Also, since she is a little confused, we came to find out that she may be getting her confirmation mixed up with the endowment. (Possibly meaning that she's been confirmed, and she was working on going to the temple.) When we talked with the Bishop, he said that they looked and looked, but there are absolutely no records of her getting baptized or anything! So, we are going to work with her on teaching her all the lessons and baptizing her as an investigator. Cool! That's basically what happened this week as far as cool things go. I did try something called Mondongo this week (I think that's how you spell it). It's Peruvian. It's cow stomach. I didn't know it was cow stomach at first. I thought it was regular meat at first because it was all cut up. After getting through it a little bit, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't regular meat. It was really rubbery and didn't taste like anything. I only found out it was cow stomach a few minutes after we left. I'm really, really glad I didn't find out what it was while I was eating it, haha! And no, I won't eat it again even though I know it won't taste bad. I would rather have a steak, like I'm going to have in two weeks when the Linderman family feeds us again for Memorials Day. :) Thanks for all the prayers and letters! It's been great so far. -Elder Justin Gajewsky

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