So this was a nice full week of heat and sweet and good lessons taught to our investigators. I'm not sure if i mentioned a man named Roy last week. He's a great guy and right now our number one investigator that is progressing. He even came to church this week with his little 8 year old son which is always a great step for investigators here in the mission field. Right now Roy is really in the first steps of conversion and we just pray that he's able to continue enduring upon that path. He's married and they just have one child who's 8 years old and a good kid. He really enjoyed church i think which was good. Especially because many times if the child doesn't have good experience that family doesn't either, but luckily that wasn't the case with Roy. Our goal for this next week is to get his wife involved in the lessons because still she hasn't really participated to much yet. She's been sick and is going to have a surgery to remove a cist from her stomach or something like that so she just stay's in bed while we visit with Roy. So we pray that all goes well with her health and also that she's able to see the change in her husband by listening and visiting with us. Earlier i guess Roy was going through a tough time and drinking was a bad habit, but now he's starting to clean up and we're more than happy to be there to help him out in that process.
Also we had a cool lesson with a lady named Angela who's been investigating the church for a good amount of time now and she has never made it to baptism. So i asked her what's holding her up and she said she just has a really bad smoking habit and hasn't been able to get over it yet. So we focused on teaching her of repentance and how that is a change of our view of God and our selves and how that's going to help her make it to baptism. So we then asked her if she was willing to stop smoking and prepare to be baptized and she said yeah. So then we asked her where all her cigarettes were and she told us, so then we took them away from her to help her avoid the temptation. We then destroyed the cigarettes so that they don't help kill any one else either. Its interesting how that on the cigarette package it says in bold and clear letters, "Smoking Kills", and yet the people still buy them. How bad of an addiction is that right? So Angela is going to be in our prayers that she is able to overcome her addiction.
Also, i guess i should let you now about my new companion shouldn't I. His name is Elder Ellis and we've actually been in the some District before so we sort of already new each other. He's from Oregon and went to a year of school at BYU Idaho. He speaks both spanish and papiamentu very well which is always nice because we really wont have any problems with any language's. He's only has one transfer less then me so we're both pretty old in the mission you could say. We're going to work very well together i believe and I'm looking forward to ending my mission most likely with him.
Here in San Nicolas its pretty much a desert every where with a lot of cactus. It's like the area that we would pass through as we were going down to Arizona when you pass the dam and are in a complete desert and its hot, really hot. Also here theirs a lot of people that speak English but we speak all of our languages every day, those being Papiamentu, Spanish, and English. Its pretty fun though and sometimes hard to keep the languages straight in your head. But it comes easier now! I mean after almost 2 years you'd hope so right?...
But any ways that s how things are going here in the mission field of San Nicolas, Aruba.
Much Love,
Elder Lopez
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