Week 39

Yes, it finally happened!

Someone proposed to me! as in marriage!

I said no.

We were trying to visit a partial member family, and none of the family members who are members were home, but one of the 17 kids was there. She told us to sit down and that she wanted to talk to us. We said alright. Pretty much tthe first thing out of her mouth was ´´you guys are american right? Ive always had a dream of going to america... but its probably very expensive right? But its probably easier if i got married with one of you two!´´ we kind of pushed it away, and started asking her about church, and then she kind of cut us off and asked us if we could have a girlfriend. By this time, we were just trying to get out of there as comfortably as possible. we said no. We kept trying to end the conversation, but she just refused to let us say anything. Finally she just asked us ´´so could i marry one of you two
?´´ and we said no, and then said like a sentence about the temple, and then we prayed and left.

It was pretty nuts.

Well another cool thing that happened here was that we had a reference from a way awesome member here about her exboyfriend. We had one lesson with him, and he was WAY smart. Hed already talked to the missionaries, and claimed to be reading the Book of Mormon. He was VBERY intelligent. Well, we asked him to be baptized on june 13th, and he said yes.

this was like 1 month ago. More than 1 month. We tried to set up a bunch more citas and stuff like that with him. one time, he claimed that he was going to paraguay, and then his ex girlfriend told us that he didnt. We tried to set up another cita, and he claimed to be sick. Hed come to church like 6 times, but always left early, and we talked with him very little. Plus in one of the church meetings, the bishop started talking about clenliness of the church, and brought in examples... diapers, etc. it was nasty. He left early. We thought for sure we wouldnt be hearing from him again. We called him last week, and he said that he was still interested,k but that he didnt know when he had any free time and that he would call us when he did.

we thought for sure we would never hear from him again. Well yesterday, he texted us seeing if we could meet this morning. And we did. We asked him if he stillw anted to be baptized. He said yes. I said ´´well.. i dont think that we can THIS saturday.´´ and he asked me ´´why not? do you not have faith??´´ it was pretty dang funny. Turns out he really DID go to paraguay and was sick, and turns out hes read almost half of the Book of Mormon and loves it. Hes a super prepared person, because we literally have done nothing and he just does it all. He even asked us´´what do i have to do to be a member? because i heard that you cant drink coffee.. Is there anything else?´´ it was dang suprising. Well i wouldnt have guessed it

So... that was probably the weirdest lesson i have ever had because it totally turned out the opposite of what i was expecting.... I think he might get baptized.

I love you

Elder Emil Christensen

hooray for pictures. This is me waiting for elder Averett to get his hair cut. And the next one is me in the middle of downtown, posadas.