Hey this weekly letter I forgot to send last week. Sorry about that everyone.
We dropped the car off in EPA and rode up the Redwood City as fast as we could because we were late to our dinner with Cesar and his family, they are part-member, Cesar is not a member of the church, we had pollo that was seasoned in like a chorizo seasoning, and rice and noodles with tortillas of course. We got to know Alma his wife better, and talk to Cesar more about this past week. Cesar asked us if we could come back the next day for our "class" and so we respected his request and shared a message on repentance and removing the dark cloud that's over us by repenting.
Elder Phillips and I then went on Middlefield Road and just talked to people for the last 20 minutes of the night, and then finally we went to Los Manguitos to buy a paleta, I got Chamoy and he got Pistachio, and they were 2$ each. It was really good, we headed off home, and we got the keys off the roof of our apartment (which I accidentally threw up there) and everything was good in the world. I was happy last night to get to sleep in a nice cold semi-humid room. Not dry not overly humid, and it was cooold. I liked it, but my companion didn't. I had a great sleep.
Man, today was pretty great and crazy. First of all Helena is not going through very good times, she met with the Bishop last night to clear up and figure out what she will do about her mother and father, they are both very against the church, and are asking her to come home back to China. So been keeping her in my thoughts. You should too.
Today we had service at St Anthony's Catholic Church, that was cool, it's just peeling and cutting vegetables for a few hours to prep for their lunch the next day, it's really a good place to serve as missionaries. After we had served there we ate lunch for the Redwood City 1st elders, Elders Porter and Jones and then we had our language study.
After language study we went and visited Daniel Paiz, he is a recently coming back from less activity, and he is pretty awesome, he is getting his patriarchal blessing this Thursday, receiving the classes for receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood and going to the temple now. He is pretty golden. He was asking us about what we think he should do with his life, because right now he is 32 and no job, no money, and no education, and how he needs to be more patient with God and with his life, but he is coming to conclusions himself on what he needs to do in order to do what he needs to do. We shared about spiritual and temporal blessings that come from being obedient, and then he headed off to do some 'odd jobs' with another member of the church.
After that we went and visited a couple people, and on the way we pulled over and talked to a young man on the street, and ended up teaching him the restoration, his name was Ricky, and he was really cool and receptive. We have a time to go back and bring him a Book of Mormon.
We kept going around RWC talking to everyone, and it was great. We eventually ran into Cesar our investigator in front of the Chavez supermarket and he asked us not to come at 6 because he was busy with things, so we went into Chavez to use the bathroom and he bought us candy and drinks... I think he just felt bad that he cancelled on us. We went and kept doing the work, and kept talking to everyone. We went to our ward mission leaders house to visit him, update him on our investigators and shared a message with him.
After we did that, we ran into a guy named Elmer, he's from Guatemala, and he was really interesting, he kept repeating the things that we said when we taught him, and we taught him the whole restoration on the street. We went and invited him to meet with us, and he didn't remember his address? So we got his cell phone number and we think it might be fake. But we did pray with him. We then headed off to dinner in Menlo Park with the Ruiz Family of course (every tuesday!) It was pretty amazing, as usual. Great day, 5 lessons.
We started cleaning our house for interviews at around 9 oclock and got our laundry in, there isn't really much to write about today besides we cleaned our house for like 5 hours and then went shopping and got groceries.
The rest of the week was pretty interesting. We have had a hard time getting into the doors of our own investigators this week, and for sure in other peoples homes, but we still managed to get our standard 20 lessons this past week. We really pushed this weekend to find and teach people. I am coming down to my last 2 weeks of my time here in Redwood City 2nd Ward as President Watkins told me i'll be here for 2 transfers.
We have really had some trials this week of our faith, but we are come off conqueror. We made our 20 lessons. I am feeling a longing to go back to my mission language, I had a lesson in Chinese this past sunday because the Cupertino elders weren't able to go, so they had me go, and my mind was pretty set on the Spanish language, but as soon as I got into the groove of the lesson it ended up working out really well. Her name was Cindy and she's 29, it was the first lesson she had with missionaries. She is from Hubei China and she has only been in the US since the beginning of January. She looks younger than me, but that just comes from the youthfulness of Chinese people.
Anyway, don't know much else to write this week, but it's been a good week. 2 weeks left in the transfer already.
Elder Sanchez
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