Ciaooo!
Ok well this week has been very good and VERY interesting
ha. So to start off ill tell you about the work and how much it is improving.
This week we got 3 new potentials and numbers, 1 new investigator, 2 new less
active members that we are teaching, and 1 baptismal date! We are having such a
better week than the past ones it is great :) We are doing a lot more pass by's
and proselyting along the way and Heavenly father keeps putting us in the right
place at the right time. So that is going really well, my companion and i are
getting a long much better now and all is looking up!
Ok so last thursday an interesting thing happened to my
companion and me. After teaching english class at the church we got on a bus to
head to the center of the city so that we could take another bus there that
takes us to our apartment on the other side of the city. We got on the bus and
there was a man standing on the inside of the door who smelled like beer and
was talking to the driver. We walked passed him and sat down behind to other
ladies. At a certain point i felt a tap on my shoulder from one of the ladies.
When i turned around i saw that her face was VERY preoccupied and nervous. She
told me that the man up front talking to the bus driver had a PISTOL in his
jacket and that she and her friend by her both saw it with their own eyes! They
were freaking out and shaking from nerves. I was very caught off guard and
didn't know how to react so i tried to get them to calm down a little and that
we would get off at the next stop and that if they wanted to they could get off
with us. they agreed. All of a sudden, almost as if the drunk man with the
pistol (very tall and very large statured) turned around and walks up to where
we are and yells to us and the rest of the 6 or 7 people that were on the bus
saying (in a very drunk italian) "Ok from now on I am your guys conference
and if you do what i say then everything will be fine." Then the stop came
and me, my companion and the two younger ladies got up to leave the bus. The
man however decided to leave his "conference" and follow us off the
bus! When we got off he started talking to my companion and i asking us where
we were going. We told him that we were just going to the center of the city. I
then asked him where he was going... he said,I'm going wherever you go."
by this time the two younger ladies had already gone their own way. It was
obvious that he was VERY drunk and as we were walking down the streets he was
yelling out loud the most random things and cussing out people as they walked
by us. My companion and i were trying to think how in the world we would get
rid of this guy because if we just ran we feared he would just pull out the gun
and shoot so we had to do it while he wasn't looking somehow. When we got to
the bus stop that we had to take to get home i told him "okay we are going
to visit a friend that lives a little far away and we can go by ourselves
seeing as how we aren't little kids and don't need help getting there". He
said, " no no you guys are of the church and i want to "make sure you
get there safe" so i'll go there with you. I insisted that we didn't need
help and he started to understand that we thought he would do something to us
so he gets close to me and looks me in the eyes and says, "what are you
going to punch me in the face?" I didn't want to make a drunk man get mad
or anything so i said no, he also said then that nor would he punch me so all
is well. Of course that didn't really make us feel at ease however. Then all of
a sudden, as if it were God sent, a street vender came up to the man and tried
to sell us things. the drunk man was distracted while playing with the laser
pen that the vender sold so we took advantage of the opportunity and BOOKED IT!
We ran and ran until we were farrr from being found from him.
CRAZY RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!
that one went in the journal hahahaha.
Well all is well and Heavenly Father really looked out for
us on that one. Okay I have no more time to write haha but don't worry mom im
fine and if we see him again im sure heavenly father will help us out again :)
Love you guys and cant wait to hear from you next week! Yes
i will have pictures next week :) Ciao!
-Anziano Delgado
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