January 9, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XII (i think that means 12? (which idek if thats the right number, but that's what we're on i think?) if anyone knows roman numerals please help, i'm running out of numbers that i actually know)

hellooooo, and welcome back to the amazing adventures of cambita, RD.. okkk.. let'sss see.. first of all, we met THE BEST INVESTIGATOR EVERRRR!.. and by that, i mean someone who is aCtually interested!.. first of all, he's a self reference from social media, which means he refered himself, and hE was the one who kept texting us to ask when we were going to visit (usually it's the other way around, and we have to text the people a ton of times just to get a response saying "sorry i'm feeling sick today").. annnd other than that, he is someone who has been investigating different churches, and trying to find the truth for himself.. allllso, he has all the right questions, and at the end of the first lesson, we gave him a book of mormon, and gave him the book of enos to read (which is what we give everyone, but no one ever reads).. and he wanted to meet with us as soon as possible again.. so the first day was tuesday, and we could come back thursday.. today was thursday, annnd guess what? he aCtuAllY rEAdddd! and he said he felt the spirit!.. that's the first time i've ever seen that here... orrrr ever! we read it again with him when we went today, and answered even more of his questions, and we'll be going back on tuesday again.. we're hoping he comes to church this sunday too, because he brought it up on his own, and said he wants to come.. sooo we'll have to see what happens.. hopefully we can help him continue to progress, because he would be a really great addition to the ward here!.. also, we have another investigating family, who is just sUper hyper and the lesson never stays on topic, and we've been there probably 4 or 5 times now, but we've only gotten thru one lesson so far.. annnyways, we just know we have to be vEry prepared every time we go into their house now, and this time we were trying to give the second lesson.. sooo we start into it, and right on cue, some guy outside says "dalisa! (the name of the crazy investigator) come help me!" sooo she went out to see what was going on, so we went too, and idk exactly what was happening (i still don't know spanish and she talks sUperrr fast).. but basically there was a hose, and it was running a bunch of water thru it, but there was a pretty big hole in the hose, which was spraying everywhere.. now you might think this is a problem, buttt they were extatic! sooo we watched her start to fill up buckets of water from this holy hose, and use them to fill up their water reserve (free water ig) and my comp is like "you need help?" and she's like "no way! you guys will get your shoes wet!".. sooo basically we just started arguing about how we don't care if our shoes get wet, and they're waterproof anyways, and we like helping people, and she is obviously struggling to carry the buckets, and is doing the thing that old people do where they like hold their back and hobble around (i'm allowed to say that, cuz i know old people btw (and she's like 26 or something, soooo she's fine)).. but she's still trying to not let us help, sooo i just ended up grabbing the bucket from her and saying "no no no no no, yo voy yo voy" whichhh just basically means "i'm taking over" (it actually means (no no no no no, i go i go) but sounds grammatically incorrect in english sooo.. but anyways, we helped her fill up their water storage bin thingy or whatever, and then she just reallly wanted to buy us food after, so she left, and we were left alone with just the husband, who actually turns out to be super chill (meaning the wife is just the crazy one (annnnd also the 2 year old daughter who takes after her mom ig)).. buttt anyways she came back with soda, and... croutons? kinda? idk what they were, but it was basically garlic flavored cookies.. they were pretty good, buttt we only got to the first point of the lesson before all the chaos broke out, and we had to go to another lesson by the time it was all over, sooo hopefully we have better chances to teach them in the future.. we taught our JWs again.. wElll we tried to at least, but what actually happened, is they taught uS.. sooo we now have pamphlets from them to study about the bible, annnd honestly the guy is a super great teacher.. a lot better than we are for sure.. and the thing is, they dO have a lot of truth.. they're just missing some key parts (the trinity, the priesthood, modern day revelation).. bUttt he diD promise to aCtually read the book of mormon by our next visit on sunday, sooo hopefully he does!.. we taught the crazy lady again, annnd it was actually somehow more chaotic this time.. her husband wasn't there, but she was just talking forEver about how (now this is what i thiNk was going on, again i don't really speak spanish).. but she was talking about how someone she knows, i thiNk a sister of her husband (sooo sister in law?) has a baby that is white, with blonde hair, and green eyes (i know that part fs, cuz she kept saying "como este blanqito" (like this little white) and pointing to me.. but the babies supposed parents are both black, soooo.. but it was basically just random gossip that we had nothing to do with and didn't care to hear about, buttt it took like 45 min or more just to read one verse with her and talk about it, because she kept going to the other room, and she was like putting lotion on her feet, and showing us her new sandals she bought, and showing us how funny her 2 year old looks when she's sleeping annnnd.. you get the point.. one of the days we were walking down a street, and we looked into one of the allies at what looked to be a 2 headed duck and or chicken? like it had one head on each side and it was laying down, and it had 4 wings, and it looked like the heads were trying to get away from each other.. after watching for a little while we realized that it was 2 ducks and or chickens, that were tied? or otherwise connected at the feet? annnd they wEre trying to get away from each other.. at first i didn't understand, but then a man promptly chopped one of the heads of the 2 headed beast off.. so there was blood squirting everywhere, and both mystery birds were frEaking out, but trying to fly away (including the one who had recently become headless).. buttt it was pretty effective ig, they held each other down, and he was able to remove both heads without having to chase their bodies down after.. we also saw some chickens with "gripe" which means the flu, buttt that's just what they call anyone or anything that is sick in any way here.. but anyways watching chickens sneeze is sOoo weird.. like you know when you sneeze and there's actually snot that comes out and it's super gross, and you promptly run to the bathroom to clean away all the snot?.. welll just imagine sneezing like that, every 5 seconds, for probably days, but you're also a chicken.. so you just sneeze, and there's snot everywhere, but you can't really do anything to get it off (because you're a chicken, and you have the IQ.. of.. welll a chicken..) and it wouldn't matter anyways because you just get snot everywhere again in 5 seconds.. it looked pretty miserable.. sooo i'm glad i'm not a dominican chicken with "gripe".. one of the days our gas ran out (so that's water, gas, annnd electricity, sooo now we just need to run out of air, and we can check it off the list (it's usually at different times tho, not all at once, so it's totally fine)).. anyways tho, we ran out of gas whiLe i was making brownies, and it was in like the first 5 minutes of me putting them in, so they didn't get cooked at all.. sooo i took them out and cooked them in the microwave.. orrrr i tried to at least, buttt it definitely did nothing, i just ended up with a bowl of very dark looking goop, that i put in the fridge.. buttt we got gas back by the next day, so i just made them then.. annnd they were pretty good, but we'll probably all die now from dark goop poisoning.. we also met another new really good investigator! i'm not really sure why it was a lot harder to find interested people last transfer, buttt it seems to be going at least a little better now.. i hope! (annnnd we met anOther! super cool!) okkk, that's probably all for this week tho, love you guys, have a great week! okkk this week is a little different.. i wanted to share my testimony soooo here goes.. i've heard a lot of people say "it's ok to have doubts, it's ok to not be all the way sure".. i'm not so sure about that.. i have a lOt of questions.. i have no doubts.. i've heard that the best way to learn is to teach, and i've definitely found that to be true while i've been here.. i know these things are true, and i don't have all the answers, but this is just trUe.. and a couple of months ago, i'm not sure if i would have been able to say that.. i've had my doubts before, but they don't compare to the testimony that i have come to have while being out here.. it's honestly kinda weird to be so completly sure about something, i'm usually not totally sure of a lot of things, i don't have very much knowledge, but while we are teaching, while i am studying in the book of mormon, while i'm testifying to people i've just met, in a language i'm not even close to understanding.. i just fEel that it's true.. and that's iT.. there's no other way to describe it, it's just truth.. but the thing is, iii know it's true, but you can't take my word for it.. i can show you hundreds of scriptures and talks, i can tell you all of the stories and experiences that i have, the reasons, the wAy i know this is true.. but for you to know it, to actually knOw that it's true, that's not something anyone can tell you.. that's not something anyone can show you or give you.. if you really have that desire to know what is true, that's up to you to find it for yourself.. one thing that we say in the first lesson after showing the investigator the book of mormon, is this.. moroni (a prophet in this book) has given us a promise.. a truth that he had found for himself.. that if you read, and pray, asking god with real intent to know, you can know the truth.. but that's not where it stops.. faith needs action to work.. how can you know the truth, if you don't do anything to find it? if you have any doubts, i challenge you to find those answers.. but if you can't find those answers (and there are some that we might not be able to find) then it's up to you to decide.. answer the primary questions first.. do god and jesus christ live? do they know and love you? and if so, is this their church? is this thEir truth? and once you've answered those questions, all the others pale in comparison.. because if god really does love us and know what's best for us, then everything else falls into place.. and if you don't know whAt to believe, and you truly want to know.. it's up to you.. these things are true, i have found them for myself, and i know you can too.. i'm not sure who needs to hear this, buttt sorry if it sounds preachy or cheesy or something.. in the name of jesus christ amen...