Week 85: Crazy Week

Howdy friends and fam,

This week was crazy so I'll knock it down to bullet points:

• There are crazy dogs that try to bite us and always bark on the street to our house so this week we took a spray bottle and put vinegar and super hot peppers in so that they stop barking at us, haha! Woops! 

• We met a crazy less-active that was a bishop 15 years ago. He said that one day he was carried through the sky and he turned into the high priest of the whole universe. His goal is to save every soul in the world and he has meetings in his kitchen every Thursday at 7 pm where supposedly all of the spirits in the universe meet in his house....he's a crazy guy. He also has a son that's 20 that's named Nephi Mosiah. He isn't baptized so we tried to talk with him but he didn't want anything to do with us. Hahaha, what a weird day that was. 

• We had a miracle happen! Josue got baptized!! We tried to baptize Josue a month ago but he has a crazy fear of water so he wouldn't get his head under. But we did practices with him throughout the week. On Saturday we got into the font and when he was going down into the water, he got scared (like always) and stood back up but we forced him down anyways....haha. It sounds cruel now but he was sooooo happy when he got out of the water, even though he was gagging and choking up water he was so happy because he's been trying to get baptized for 6 months!

As I'm reading this email it seems really weird and strange....but that's just how the week went! Maybe this next week will be more normal but you never know out here in Santa Isabel!

– Elder Hale

After Josues baptism! Soakin wet, haha!

Week 84: Short and Sweet

Hey everyone, 

Sorry to keep it short and sorry that I don't write much lately! I wish I had more time to write a good letter every week! But life is GREAT! Trying to take advantage of every moment here in the mish. 

I got a new comp this week! It's Elder KUNZ! He is from my same group from coming out here and he's from Preston, Idaho. We quote a lot of Napoleon Dynamite together, hahaha. He was the assistant for the last 6 months and is now ending the mish out here in Santa Isabel. We had some HARDCORE rejection this week, honestly more than I've received ever in the mish. BUTTTT the good news is that we had 2 baptisms programmed! Josue for this Saturday and his cousin Billyjoe (sweet name huh?) for the 31st. 

I think I always say this, but I just love being a missionary! I recommend EVERYONE that's on the fence about going to just GO!! It will change your life and you will change/save others lives. This is the work of the Lord and it's real! Have a great week y'all!

—Elder Hale

After doing baptism practices with
our investigator Josué (he's scared of water).

My new comp and I at the very top of our area looking for an
address that didn't exist. :/ But at least we got a cool pic!

Week 83: Just Pictures

Fun zone P-day.

Went to the temple this week and we did baptisms with our converts.

Just a nice sunset.

This is Luis Angel, he got baptized on Saturday 

but he forgot the picture so I just took a selfie later.