Week 97

Welp, it appears that I will be 'dying' in cottonwood! Transfer news came, and I am staying.  I will finish with these statistics:

 

Areas: 2

 

Companions: 9

 

Mission Presidents: 2

 

Pairs of shoes: 3

 

How strange, I start my last transfer as a missionary! It seems like I just started writing on this blog... yet at the same time, it feels like I've been here forever! I used to always say "Sheesh, the MTC seems like just a week ago." Well, not quite anymore, it was a long time ago!!! I must say I feel really weird, I don't think I will really have any trouble 'adjusting' like many do, probably due to me being older, but it will definitely be strange.

 

Ah, once again I forgot my planner, cause I made a new one.  What happened this week? There was a baptism in the spanish branch, I have a really good friend in that branch who only speaks spanish, and I only speak english, he is about 65 and the epitome of an old mexican guy.  Thick mustache, he actually looks like most drawings you'll see of an old guy in a mariachi band! He was making fun of me the whole time in spanish, it was quite funny, and he would try and speak english and say to me that I am 'too much ugly' but in reality we are best friends.

 

We might be teaching some really cool people soon who will be super prepared for the gospel.  One is a girl who keeps asking her friends about the church and about meeting with us, but like usual, people withhold them from the gospel.  Please don't do that... its not up to us to decide when they are ready. 

 

Allergy season = bad news for Elder Martin! Yesterday was really bad.  Who said that dry weather means less allergies? FALSE! I have never dealt with it more in my life.

 

I have to say... the church is True.  There is no way its not true, its funny how much evidence there is, yet people refuse to see it! there was someone we talked to the other day who was very adamant that we were going to hell, we had quite the discussion with him, it was good, he was at least friendly about it, and we really got into the scriptures.  Yet still he refused to believe, so we bore testimony of the Book of Mormon and left.  During the conversation he said "There is absolutely no evidence archaelogically, linguistically, or any other evidence whatsoever that the Book of Mormon is true." HA, funny that he says that, cause linguistics as well as archaelogy prove that the Book of Mormon is true... but such things mean nothing without a spiritual witness.  Oh I remember how we ended the conversation.  I asked a question "If Jesus Christ personally appeared to you, and you KNEW without a doubt that it was Jesus Christ, and he was holding a Book of Mormon and he said 'This is my Book, it is true." would you then believe? his response was No.  We left.  It's nice to know that at the end of the day, the church is true, the Book of Mormon is true, and no argument that anyone brings up will ever change that.  No amount of pretend evidence will ever change that.  I try to be humble, but I LOVE being right, thus this is definitely the church for me, cause its the right one.

 

Elder Martin