So...I now have another agenda that I need a quote for!
So...perhaps there is actually someone other than my mother reading this...SEND
ME A SHORT QUOTE!!! GET ON IT!!!
So, this week I got my package. Something blew my mind. In it there was a package of Skittles. THERE ARE GREEN APPLE SKITTLES?!?!?! Was lemon lime NOT GOOD ENOUGH?!?! Why must the world change while I'm gone? I'm not going to recognize ANYTHING when I get home!!! Poor me. Green apple skittles. Psh.
So, this week I got my package. Something blew my mind. In it there was a package of Skittles. THERE ARE GREEN APPLE SKITTLES?!?!?! Was lemon lime NOT GOOD ENOUGH?!?! Why must the world change while I'm gone? I'm not going to recognize ANYTHING when I get home!!! Poor me. Green apple skittles. Psh.
So, this week we were knocking doors, right? Here in
Guatemala the large majority of doors have a little window thing they can open
before opening the door, to see who is on the other side of the door. So, I
knock on the door, and this lady from the other side of the door asks,
"QUIEN?!?" I didn't answer, cuz if I say I'm a missionary, they
likely don't answer the door. So...I just kept quiet, and she asked again,
"QUIEN?!?!?!" No response. So, she comes to the window. The only
problem? SHE WAS COMPLETELY NAKED. Like...a 60 year old lady, BUTT NAKED at the
door! She saw me, kind of stood in shock for a second, and THEN decided to hide
herself behind the door. I just didn't know what to do. So I just told her I'd
come another day. It was just a mess. NEVER AGAIN.
Yesterday, for another glimpse at Guatemalan culture, we
were talking to an investigator of ours in the street, where we found her
walking. Her little four year old starts pulling on her shirt saying,
"MOMMY!! PEE PEE!!!" (Which translates, apparently) so, what does mom
say? "Ok...go pee on the truck tire over there!" Which he gladly did!
This is just a funny country.
So, immediately after my experience with the naked lady, I
had another really interesting experience. But this one was somewhat spiritual.
We were knocking, and my companion ran into this SUPER Catholic guy. We talked
for about 45 minutes, but he just kept going back to the scripture in Matthew
16 18, which says that Christ built HIS ONE CHURCH on the rock that is Peter.
We explained it to him, but he was CONVINCED that because of that ONE verse,
his church is one hundred percent true, that Peter was the first Pope, and all
of this. Well...we weren't getting anywhere with that, so we went our way. The
very next lesson we had was with this SUPER Evangelical guy. Evangelicals
believe that there IS NO church of Christ on the earth, that we just have to
accept Christ as our Savior, and ya! We're done! It's sad. But...it was REALLY
interesting. He whipped out his Bible, and where did he turn? No other place
than Matthew 16 18! He explained the scripture like this: Well, Christ built
His church on ONE person, so WE ARE the church true of Christ! ONE PERSON is
the church! It just made me VERY happy that we have a living Prophet on the
earth to be able to explain what these things MEAN! I wish that people would
just accept it, but...that's why we're here! Fighting for that one thing!
Well...love being a missionary! Thanks for everything! SEND
ME QUOTES!!! I NEED THEM!!!
Love,
Love,
Elder Hopper #2
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