This week one of the companionships in my District has been getting one of their investigators ready for baptism. She's this hilarious little old lady who is *very but very but very evangelica*. {Editor's Note: that's the Spanish version of "very, very, very evangelical".} I honestly have no idea if there is an English translation for the word "evangelica" but it's like super gospel-happy. {See Editor's note above lol} Like they jump up and around in the church and scream out prayers and sing all crazy like in their meetings. It's way funny to walk by whenever they're having services and see all the fun they're having.
Anyway this little old lady, Ilda Del Socorro Del Tercer Edad, (haha that's really her name) has found some faults in her evangelica church and has been completely captivated by the truth that the missionaries have been able to show her. She really wants to be baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and so the missionaries asked me if I could come to their area to do a baptismal interview for Ilda Del Socorro Del Tercer Edad. When my comp and I got to the area we went with the elders to Ilda's house, but she wasn't there. We asked the neighbors and they had no idea where she was. Worried that something happened to this 180 year-old dinosaur lady, we said a prayer and split up to go look for her. After about an hour of searching every street in the area, the other Elders called us telling us that they found her in her old church.
We headed across town to the old evangelica church and saw Ilda sitting in there with her Pastora. "We gotta do something" my comp said as the 4 of us stood outside of the church trying to think of how we could get Ilda outside of the church. I suddenly had the bright idea of "well, why don't we just go in there and get her." Haha so we walked through the doors right in the middle of one of their "alabanza" singing things. There were people jumpin' around and singing and clapping and these 4 Mormon missionaries standing right there in the middle of it. The Pastora saw us and immediately came over to us singing at us in a loud voice: "LA SANGRE DE CRISTO LAVA... TE LAVAAAAA... TE LAVAAAA!!!!!" She pointed at us and told us to yell Hallelujah "DIGA ALELUYA!!!" So we all joined in and started clapping our hands saying ALELUYA! all while trying not to laugh haha. After everything calmed down we had a nice little chat with the Pastora and she told us be aware of the "false missionaries" here in this world. Nice little indirects haha. It was so funny and definitely an experience to remember. Needless to say, Ilda needs to wait a little bit longer before she gets baptized in the Church haha.
Hope you guys liked that short but funny story and that the rest of your week is a great one.
Keep On Keepin' On...
-Elder Willis
Maestros de la parrilla {Grill Masters}
Our branch activity/barbecue this week
I just got an email from the elder serving in my old area in Limon right now with this picture. Omar went to the TEMPLE!!! I am so friggin happy right now!
This is the video of the bug I ate last week. Enjoy, Quincy.
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