Jokes in the face of Danger

well another week down, each week gets faster and faster. It really is crazy! So the news of the week is that basically a lot happened haha I met two families who we are now teaching and seem way cool. One of the families was during what we call hour of power. Every Thursday night from 6 to 7 we go and knock a street, well we had no investigators this week so we fasted that day which was WAY rough with the heat. But as soon as we started hour of power we met this family. They were only the second door we knock! And the best part was the mother said that she has been looking for a new church and one that would get her children involved. So we shared a message with her and left after setting an appointment for saturday. So we went back saturday and she told us that as soon as we left that she felt her search was over, that she could feel are message was true. So we taught the lesson and they wanted to come to churchsunday! It was such a cool experience!

The other family we found is crazy! haha They had the lessons about two years ago then moved and we just happened to run into them and they invited us over. Its two brothers and one is married with two girls. THESE GUYS ARE HUGE!!!! like NFL lineman huge hahaha Both 6 foot 6 like 300lbs!!! Well friday night we went over to teach a lesson, when we got there a car pulled us and guys jumped out. One came and got right in my face and started yelling for my id and money, turns out he was a crack dealer, but for some reason the the spirit told me to joke around with the guy. SO i cracked a joke messed around with him a little bit and he chuckled and said that i had balls hahaha Well by this time Jaime, one of the brothers is by my side asking if i needed help and i told him no that me and the guy were cool and had no problems. So me and Elder Smith went inside while Jaime stayed outside and talked with the guy. When Jaime came back in he told me about the guy. How he sells crack to the lady next door and is in some gang and is pretty dangerous, and told me i had balls!! hahaha It was pretty funny, definitely sketchy though! The area im in is called the grind and it is full of problems. But i havent been in any bad situations yet so thats good!!!

We are hoping to have a few baptisms in the next few weeks which would be totally sweet!!! This past week i felt we were down in the dump with the lack of investigators but things really turned around!! Im really excited to see what comes from these new families!!! Spanish still sucks but ive come to accept it which is really good!!! Cause now the only way to go is up!! haha im a big hit in the ward cause i get along with all the youth really well and the youth in the ward in really struggling so it was nice to hear from our ward mission leader that the bishop sees the good work i do!! Elder Smith says i have a lot of potential cause ive learned a lot of things that he didnt learn til his year mark! So even though my spanish sucks i am doing something right!!! haha Only other funny experience i had was that we have this street where a bunch of woman try and get picked up, and im not really sure how we got into the position but one came up to us and started trying to get us to take her so i finally threw a passalong card at her and ran. hahah

I will send some pictures next week of everything down here in Texas. We have a huge ward party next Saturday where i can get pics with all the families and everything! Til then here are some from Mexico!

Love Elder Anderson