Nov 6...No Group email.. portions of Mom and Dad's emails

So haha, elder Dial got hit by a car. That was crazy. We were riding bikes home and it was dark and the roads were wet, so I was riding behind and elder dial was riding in front and he was going kind of fast because he just bought this sweet race bike. It looks a lot like dads but it has automatic sram shifters, I have no idea how it works but it´s cool. anyways we both have lights on our bikes so the car totally could see uus because they are really bright but this car comes flying by us and then just pulls over right in front of elder dial and slams on its brakes. So elder dial brakes but can´t stop because the roads are wet and he slid sideways then just smahsed into the back of the car. He didn´t even fall over though. He like rode to the front of the car and glared at the guy then drove off hahahaha. He´s ok it was just crazy though. I´m glad it wasn´t me because I don´t have any breaks on my bike so I would have died haha. It´s cool though.

So normally fast and testimony meetings are awful in our ward. Basically everyone just gets up and tries to show how much better they are and tell everyone they need to repent. It´s hard to watch honestly. But this week was really god. Honestly it was the most spiritual fast and testimoney meeting I´ve ever had. Everyone just was up there talking about missionary work and how much it has blesed them to have the gospel. It was cool. I even went up and bore my testimony. (I know shocker) I also have to give a talk this week so I figured I´d practice haha.

Lately we have been having a difficult time finding new people to teach, we have 2 people who are progressing and doing well but other than that we don´t really have a ton of people. We had tons of potentials and stuff but now we have kind of sifted through all of the lazy people.  So now we should have more time to go finding which is nice because we have had zero finding time lately. But the 2 people we have who are solid are Erwin and Ray. Erwin is a dutch guy, kind of a recluse but he can for sure talk for hours. It´s hard to teach him sometimes because he gets off on weird tangents and it is hard to bring it back to the gospel. but he is sincerely interested and does want to progress further. Right now we are just having  a bit of a hang up with smoking. His excuse is that he thinks prescription drugs can be just as bad as smoking so he doesn´t see why he should quit. He also said he doesn´t know that the word of wisdom is an inspired law, but it was good he said that because then we challenged him to live it and pray about how he feels to see if it is insprired and we totally caught him where he couldn´t just argue his way around us. So we will see how it has been this week haha. Ray is a Chinese student who has been meeting with the missionaries for two years and he has finally decided he wants to get baptized. but then his parents were super not supportive and told him he just needs to finish his studies then leave back to china and get a job. But we are working with him still. It´s hard to tell him to just not listen to his parents but really if he actually wants to get baptized and fully understands what it means that should be more important to him tna anything else. 

te amo, Hijo