Elder Andrew Basile: .........

So this week has been really good and really bad, we have had some crazy spiritual experiences.

To start off it's hot, like always but the humidity might actually kill me. I don't think any of you can understand what it is like to walk around in literally SOAKED clothes, from sweat and humidity. You shoes literally start to pool the sweat. Which reminds me I have always walked completely through the insoles of my shoes and through many of my socks.. And that's from wearing them once every 1 to 2 weeks. That's how much we walk here.

So we found 13 new investigators this week we crushed the rest of the zone by 5. It all started monday after leaving the house of a member we were heading home and kind of hurried. When we passed a dude sitting in front of his stor. I didn't really think anything of it until the thought came to my mind. "The LORD puts people in your path to give them the opportunity to receive the gospel."

Didn't really apply that to him until the spirit was like: "Honestly... turn around and go talk to him.." So we went back. The saw that I was a Gringo and started talking in ENGLISH! So I talked to him in English and we set up a lesson with him.

Then we just went off finding people. Another time we were in a place called Idolo and we were having just the worst luck. And I was praying so hard to find someone, just because It was late, and we were like in the farthest part of our area and it was hotter than usual.

So we were sitting there on the curb and this house came into my mind and all the details that apply. Everything, even the trees and the front yard as if I had seen it before.

But again, I just thought it was something that just popped into my head nothing special. }

We weren't really going door to door that day but rather just street contacting.

After about twenty more minutes of just nothing, I SAW THE HOUSE :/

We called to a lady sitting on the front porch talking to a man who we could tell was getting ready to leave, so we just waited. But she just kept talking and talking and talking to him. Like after 7 or 8 minutes we were just sitting there waiting, don't ask me why we didn't leave. When the lady finally talked to us she was so excited, because she had been struggling... She was inactive with 2 unbaptized daughters!!!! GOLD yeah.

We had just the greatest lesson with them and I just know they are going to progress rapidly.

So yeah that's kind of been how this week has gone. It has been soooo hard but really good. Like my body is so toast every morning and every night but it's like I just have this crazy drive to keep going. And that mixed with my companions lack of desire to get anything done balances out really well actually.

It's hard because there are sometimes when we really disagree on somethings and we aren't like fighting just speaking in loud voices at a very fast pace in spanish.

But we get along pretty good. There is times when it is like we get along really good and we are bros and then there are times when I want to wring his neck. But hey that's life right.

Anyway, So instead of Halloween they have Dia De Los Muertos and Todos Santos. Where all they do is make shrines of their ancestors and eat bread and tamales... a lot of bread and tamales.

I have eaten so many tamales and so much bread It's getting old.

I'm getting fat to... like I'm getting a beer belly, and I am very uncomfortable being fat. Because I'm really used to being really skinny. But I'm really filling out my arms to like getting a lot more muscle. But my beer belly is dumb.

Anyway that's about it. Hopefully this week is a little less physically draining.

Thanks for all the Emails.

Love you all

Elder Basile

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