Haha, gotta love Catholics :P
I came to the conclusion this week that I live in a country full of complainers. These people here will complain about anything and everything that is going wrong in their life to someone that will listen, just to feel the tiniest bit of sympathy. Like, I don't usually have a conversation with a person here without them mentioning something that they are upset about. Everyone needs a helping hand, but these people want you to offer them like 86 hands, haha.
For all of you who are following my "How much longer can Elder Gregg Kniff go before he reaches his boiling point?" The point has arrived and I am finally being taken off of the burner to cool down! WOOT! My mini missionary Daniel is leaving! These have been the most frustrating and annoying 2.5 weeks of my mission guaranteed. President Ward and I have it planned out that he will leave tomorrow, Tuesday, when we all get together for the mission Christmas party as 4 zones, and all the missionaries that are finishing their missions will head home this Thursday, and Daniel is going home with one of them tomorrow. The Lord has heard my cries, and he is allowing me to triumph over my enemies after all. I have felt really knocked down lately, like when you were a kid and the person kneels down behind someone and then you push them and trip backwards over the person on their knees. That's kind of how I've felt. But The Lord must knock you down before He can lift you up again, and I am being lifted up.
I am going to replace my Zl's comp who is heading home, and I will be in Chitré with Elder Jensen for the next 3 weeks or so until the end of the change. The changes end early this time because of Christmas, (changes on the 20th), and then have a super long change following until like late February. Sounds really exciting. I'm very excited to be with Jensen, because we're already good friends and he can recharge my batteries that have been running on very very low power lately. I feel as though I'm starting my mission over, and I can be anyone I want. I am like a piece of clay and Jensen is the potter and he can mold me into a great missionary, haha.
I've had some interesting experiences this week and last week. I went contacting with Plummer the other day and was like praying in my head saying, "help me to be receptive and guide me to a house that we should contact." I had the strong impression to contact a house, like really strong, so I went immediately and said "BUENAS!". No answer. A few more times. Nothing. But it was really direct, and I said that the next week we went to that area we were going to contact that house and see why I was guided there. Next week comes and I go to the house again, "BUENAS!" Still no answer but the door is open. I walk up and finally a lady comes to the door, with another lady in the background. The lady that comes to the door is deaf, has no idea what we want to tell her. All I could do was point at my nametag, mouth the word "misionero" and hand her an invitation to the church, as the lady in the backgtound was saying that they weren't interested. So right now I just get left thinking "Why did the Lord want me to talk to that house?" In all honesty I'm not sure why still, but I'm going to keep trying to go there because I know that there is something for me there. I know that there's something there.
There are so many Catholic "imagenes" in this country, people like worshiping the Virgin Mary. Everyone has a statue in their front yard, even though the commandment says, no graven images. Funny. I've also been reading a church history book called Truth Restored or something like that and I got to thinking about how all the great "exoduses" of the saints of God throughout all of time are all really similar. Think about it, the original with Moses leaving Egypt and everyone suffering, and the Lord providing manna from the heavens for food so people didn't starve. Next we have Lehi and his family leaving Jeruselem and having the Lord provide the people with food as Nephi hunts with his bow and makes a new one. Lastly, the modern day saints leaving Missouri and going to Utah, so many miracles of the saints being protected as they traveled so that they wouldn't starve. It's cool, the difference in time that all these things happen, and yet, the Lord is always protecting His children by saving them with food.
I want you all to know how much I love you and am grateful for you. I tried another cool and weird food this week, called rabito de puerco, or pigs tail, haha. It's interesting, super salty, and mostly fat, but it's tasty I like it :)
Scriptures this week are Acts 8:14-18 and D&C 60:2-3 which is a warning to those who choose not to open their mouths to share the gospel. Just you wait and see what happens to you, haha! Take care, have a wonderful week!
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