This week has been a very difficult one, but a very successful one at that. Including this week's work, E. Cherry and I have been able to quadruple our teaching pool since the beginning of the transfer. It's very exciting, a lot of people are progressing towards conversion. It was rather funny, one of our investigators had a question about evil spirits, so when we showed up the first thing he did was turn on "Amytville Horror" and ask us, "does stuff like this acutally happen?" It took us about a minute and a half to explain to him, in french (everything takes longer to say when in french) that we needed him to turn it off, and by then we had seen/heard 5 people get gruesomely murdered in the film. It was kind of difficult to bring the spirit back into the lesson, but by the end we got it back.
We knocked into this guy house --he let us in and we sat down on his bed in his little apartment; he sat in his chair across the room. He had a big tub of cigarettes and a tall glass of beer on the table, and we could hardly see him through the cloud of smoke. He told us a story of how he used to go to church until his pastor caught him coming out of a strip club and told him he couldn't come back anymore. He's been looking for God ever since. We were able to teach him the first lesson and commit him to baptism, his answer was "Yes, I will get baptized, but I don't want anything to do with your book, just Jesus." So we have a little bit of explaining to do, he still doesn't get that the Book of Mormon is all about Jesus. Which is weird, cause it says so right on the cover.
Another new investigator we found this week is from Nepal, she is Hindu, but doesn't like Hinduism because she believes in only one God. Banksy. She talked a lot about Ghandi and the Dalai Lama and the importance of the soul and how you should have no fear, because whatever happens, God is in it. Then she interpreted E. Cherry's dream, that was crazy, and she showed us her temple in her room, which consisted of trinkets from every religion you can think of. My favorite part was the Lava lamp next to the nativity scene.
The work is increasing, becoming almost too much for just two missionaries to handle, which is a really good thing. We were able to watch the Christmas devotional yesterday, in French, it was really good. We've also started really studying Spanish, because 7 of our investigators speak spanish, and we would like to be able to talk to them.
Good luck Chandler at the concert! That's really exciting - someone take pictures! Good luck Noah at the Ballroom recital! Are you waltzing this time, or a different kind of dance?
Good luck with everything! Oh, and transfers are coming up on the 21st, so everything you mail has got to go to the mission home for now, because I might get transferred.
Thank you so much for everything and have a nice week everyone!
E. Holm
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