Week 39 - Goodbye to 2 great missionaries Elders Maddocks & Alcarraz and we found David!!!

Buenas Noches (sorry this is late at night),

This was another good week here in El Milagro. This week an event that really stood out to me was when we went to go revisit for the second time an investigator's house we had taught the week before. Last week while contacting we contacted and had a brief lesson with a man named David while he was outside washing his car. The lesson was very normal to say the least. Nothing that seemed too out of the ordinary. He seemed semi interested in what we had to say. When we finished the lesson he just told us to come by his house "one of these days at night". It really did not seem like a very excited invitation but we decided to go looking for him anyway. We knocked on the door of his house and an older man opened the door just a crack and began with the skeptical interrogating questions. We quickly introduced ourselves as the missionaries. I do not think we had finished saying the word misioneros when franticly a lady came running from the back room yelling "open the door". Turns out this was David's mother and father. We then had a nice conversation with David's mother about the fact that he had told her he chatted with the missionaries one day. What had seemed like a very normal not so out of the ordinary lesson had really impacted David, who turns out is a recovering alcoholic. Although he might not have expressed much excitement to us, he did go home and comment to his mom about how excited he was to talk to us about God and have us visit him someday. It was something so simple but it really helped me to realize that all the little things we do can have impacts in people that we do not always immediately realize. 

Well this is week 5 of the transfers which means my companion Elder Alcarraz and my best bud Elder Maddocks who has been with me here in Milagro over the past 6 months will be finishing their missions in 2 weeks. It is safe to say the both of them are trunky hahahahahahahaaha. This is missionary slang to mean that they are thinking a little bit too much about home. It is going to be real sad to see both of these guys head home. 

Well this past Monday we got to enjoy a nice 5pm lunch at a beach front restaurant here at Trujillo's famous Huanchaco. After a quick late lunch we went out the Huanchaco's famous pier and tested our luck fishing. Although we had no real success it was still a good time. Maybe we should really stick to as Jesus said being "fishers of men" and stick to teaching people about God and Jesus Christ. 

Well some more great times here in El Milagro and this week we will hopefully be seeing the baptism of our good friend Gian Carlos and possibly the single mom Sarita Malaver.