Family and friends,
I am very
tired, mostly due to lethargy. On Saturday, Elder Murdock came down with
something that made him sleep for the entire day, and as he had the SIM
card in the companionship we got very little work done, and Elder
Linford and I didn't find motivation to do much that day. That cloud of
lethargy stayed into Sunday, but we managed to get a bit more dine
because Elder Murdock was actually awake: he had recovered by the end of
Saturday. We had some lessons planned for yesterevening, but every one
of them said they wanted to do it another day instead, so we lost a lot
of our work. But this week should be better, because I found a way to
contact the people who only have addresses listed in Area Book:
delivering letters to them. Even though we can now teach anyone outside
their house, we are still prohibited from knocking doors, even to
contact people with existing records; so we have to get creative, and
though it's very simple, I have high hope that it will yield some small
fruit. I pray it will.
Last
Tuesday, we managed to help a realtor bail a man out of a financial
emergency. To make an extremely long, sad story very much shorter, this
man had no education to speak of and was selling his house for no
reason, despite his having no house to move into and having a wife and
two children. Then, he did everything completely wrong in the process of
selling his house and he found himself on Tuesday (the day before
closing) in an absolute pickle, having done nothing the realtor had
suggested. We became involved in all this because this is a man we were
teaching, and we were also translating between him and the realtor,
because neither knew the other's language. Messy. In short, the realtor
loaned them some money to pay off some stuff, and proceeded to work his
tail off to save this man's financial life. All we did was translate and
get his possessions into the moving van, but the realtor - bless his
good, good heart - was constantly working and sacrificing to fix things
for him. Things ended up turning out well, by a miracle, and the sale
was closed. I still don't know why this man sold his house in the first
place, but at least he didn't financially die doing it. Now he's living
in a hotel, and he says he bought a car, and... all three of us Elders
know he will be broke soon, but there us nothing we can possibly do
about it. I'm just praying for yet another miracle for this man, because
I don't want his family living on the street. They are in a sorry
situation, but I pray God will have mercy on them.
I have been receiving revelation on many, many
things I am to do when I get home, and others I am to leave behind; and
that makes me happy, because I
know what God wants from me when I get home. But for now I am content to keep praying as
fervently as I can to know of ways to serve here effectively. I know I
say this a lot, but I mean it every time: God is so good to me.
Love,
Elder Hill the Elder
Fotos: nuestro video de introducción en la Rama Río Vista; un folleto en el apartamento en el idioma de Burma, Karen; ¿no parece él casi igual al Elder
Thornton, mi último compañero en Argentina?; Elder Murdock demostrando
su amor; y la reunión de zona que tuvimos esta semana.
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