Elder Bryce Monroe Marvin

Alright so this week was kinda a rough one, but not too bad! Lots of good ole walking and triyng to find a plan f cause plan a-e didnt work.

We started the week out pretty good! went around and most of our citas worked out, only one sad thing, one of our new investigators we found out smokes, not like it was a bi gsurprise, but we only has 18 years and idk if he will want to have time for us if we tell him to stop that, but we d what we gotta and tell him thats its not just c ause we dont like it but cause god said so! haha he also has a palola, or girlfriend , and idk if she like sthe church very much. again, we shall wait and see.

Oh one reoccuring trend this week was finding our lunches with members were canceled without us knowing, or at least the people were ot home. So we walked all the way there and then walked all the way back to the pension. I think we had lunch on our own probably 50% of the time this week, thats kinda not the idea, but oh weel. I shoulodnt complain! We are blessed with lun ch on so many days and they normally feed us good food, nothing thats too strange... yet! haha

Also, once again, none of our investigators showed up... talk about sadness! Its so sim ple and the fast and testimony meeting this week would have been really nice for our investigators to now they are not alone, but lukily we have had some good lessons with members and I hope that they feel really welcome, they just have things come up and sick family members right now, so hopefully that stuff gets taken care of cause i really would like to see some investigators there!

I also had exchanges with the district president, and that ewnt really well! We had a lot of luck and he helped me with my street contac ts and contacting at the doors cause that seems to be my weekness! but we contacted everyone we needed t ocantact! We even got a cita with a lady in a poblation we decided to go and knock . This was my first time being in charge and boy was it an adventure! I finally had to really think about what we were going to go do !haha but it worked out really well! We also got in with one of the futures that we were hoping for and he is agnostic but really wants to learn and shows some great desire to learn so I hope that we can help him nd get him going to church and on the road for baptism! haha He is really funny though, and he smokes so that will also be someone we have to talk about that with. Then we went and finished the nigt off with Noche de Hogar (FHE) with the barrio, or ward and it went really well! We had Vania, our 9 year old investigtor come with her brother and I think it was good for her! The young women did a skit and it was HILARIOUS! One of the girls came in like mumbling and no one could understand her and so one of the others explained that she was speaking english! It was hilarious! That was the end of that day! Super good and inspiring, and then I went and talked about it with Elder Yost, and now we are trying some new things and just trying to find a lot of sucess!

Speaing of, my companion was having a hard time these last two week.s He is doing a lot better now, but he is getting to the end of his road and he is having some depression things. Its sad, and I am trying my best t help him, cause he just needs to finish strong, but lucily he is a farm boy and work s through the hard times!

S oI have a few comlaints or enjoyments, however you view it, about the cars here. I thin kthey stick lawnmower engines in the cars here! Its ridiculous! haha Its kinda funny though caue you can just hear it when they drive by, make sme glad america does it right! haha Also, thre are a lot of wanna be mini coopers, almost cool, but not. hha Also, random thought, I am the tallest in my pension, ya, I am cool! ;) oh and one last random thing, tell brody he needs to work on his no handed bike riding, cause I am PROFESSIONAL! Its fun, I can corner a nd just go along who needs handle bars! ?! hehe Oh and one more thing, yesterday Ifound out one of the ward pianists is this 10 year old little girl, and she can play pretty well! I just thought it was impressive and that we cant complain about having hard callings! haha

Now time for my funny story of the week! So while knocking doors yesterday we go to a member referral and we walk up and holler our "Halo" and this lady comes out and we say we are looking for so and so and she says how do you know my name, so we said through a member of our church, and she is like i dont know anyone in your church and j ust looks all creeped out. So we explain a little more and why we are there to calm her down and she just says I have doubts, and I dont want a nything to do with that. and so we said thanks and left. kinda a weird awkward moment. I didnt really know how exactly we got the name, but oh well. Then we knok a door and there are dogs barking so I c ant understand, but they people in the house were talking about us thrugh the courtain. then my comp says " they are speaking english" so we listen for a minute , they get quit but we stay there. Then the door opens, and out comes this 18-20 year old guy in a dress, and then ANOTHER and ONE MORE! hahahaha They walk up all seriously so we stay serious and they say they dont know who we are ever talking about so we say thanks and in their girly accents and in english say goodbye and skip back into the house! !! wow! that was SO weird! haha but very funny for us! haha

Thats been my week! ot too bad, and this week we have a HUGE conference with all the misioar ies of this mission in vina on friday I believe, something like a general authority is coming.... ya, thats right! 4th one of my mission! IM hoping its the prophet, but we will see! haha chow!

Elder Marvin