Great news! No Dawgs this week. There was one that starting coming at us, but I carry some rocks around now and started charging at it and it ran away haha. The dog was also pregnant, so it really wasn't intimidating...
I loved the pics of Avery! She looks like she is doing so well. She is one of my favorite people. I'm glad she got a job! Maybe she can help Owen get one...
Today we have a short, yet long P day. We get to go to the temple (the whole mission!) and then the Royals game as a mission.
I have some bad news. Elder Alexander got transferred, which kinda sucked, but my new companion is probably the best missionary I've ever seen. His name is Elder White and he reminds me a lot of Clay, except for he’s a little more mellow. He is so funny though, holy smokes, and one of the most humble people I've ever met. He is like the cut out of what a missionary should be. This is also his last transfer in the mission. He's real good at Spanish too. I'm excited for the miracles this transfer. They are already coming. We are working with 4 people with a baptismal date, and there are a lot more to come who are pretty solid.
We got to help a man this week who is pretty blind and deaf. The only way we can communicate with him is by typing on this little tablet screen. The letters came out giant and green, and then he puts them right up on his face and reads them slowly. He can talk, but that's how we have to talk with him. He is not a member, but a member in Utah sent us his info and asked us to go help him with some stuff. He lives alone in extremely humbling circumstances. It is just bare insulation, or just sheetrock as walls. His floor is just plywood. He lives in a house built like more than 100 years ago. He hasn't lived upstairs since like 1992 or 1996, I can't remember, and it is infested with raccoons because a window broke. He is also this vegetarian (he cooks for himself), and so he doesn't want to kill the raccoons. He's a really good guy and we are going to go help him some more this week.
We got to have lunch with the Bishop of the Santa Fe ward on Friday! It was awesome to see them again.
I got to give a baptismal interview to a young man named Sager yesterday, who Elder Hamby is teaching. He is from Nepal and moved here about 2-3 years ago from there, yet has perfect English. Like without an accent. It is incredible. He is 18 and will be the only member in his family, who isn't supportive of him, yet understands the importance of repentance so well. He is someone who truly has been born again through Christ. He has not seen his mom, who lives in Nepal, in 3 years and he gets to call her every other week. He is going to go get to see her sometime this year or next year, and he seemed so excited. He is such a good kid.
We got to teach a ton of people this week. We actually found quite a few Dominicans, mis paisanos! I love those guys, they are the best.
Elder Alexander and I had tons of experiences where we didn’t know what to do or we didn't know if we were doing what the Lord wanted us to do. Not that we were doing anything bad, but there was something better we could do. One of these instances we were about to go knock some doors on a street, and it just didn't feel right. Something was off. So we prayed about going to a part Member family. We prayed, and we both got the clearest answer I've ever gotten. Crystal clear. Go to that part Member family. We went, and it was not a close drive. We got out of the car and we started talking to everyone we saw. The 1st lady we talked to said she used to be a member of our church when she was super young. In the course of life, she had ended up with alcoholism, a broken marriage, and a million other problems that were at their peak in that moment that we went by her house. She was drinking wine as her "last hurrah" with alcohol, and was looking for something. For extra strength. Although we didn't baptize her, she said she still felt the love of God in that moment. I believe that’s why we were sent there. We found out that the part Member family had moved to Florida, but we talked to a Puerto Rican as well in the area. We felt like we did what we needed to. Kind of a weird situation and hard to explain, but it was cool. We were led.
We started teaching a bunch of groups of tocayos (tocayos are just people with the same name.) One of my favorites is a kid and his dad named Mario that just moved here from Guatemala. The kid and I get along pretty well. I love being able to just talk with someone, like I would talk with Tanner, but in a different language. It was so cool (we talked while waiting for his dad to finish doing something). I mean I obviously speak English way better than Spanish, but it's cool to develop friendships in another language, ya know? We taught them last night and it went really well, and they should be reading the Book of Mormon. I'm excited for them.
Do you remember the Sister missionary from Peru that was in Santa Fe when I was there? She came to Kaw River! Sister Romero is an absolute stud of a missionary. So Kaw River is gonna blow up [with baptisms] hopefully.
I love you and thank you for all you've done!
Elder Ogden
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