Dear family,
So first off I’m getting
transferred...tonight to Redrock Stake right next door. So crazy stuff. I’m covering the Cimmaron Ward and the
Redrock Singles Ward, btw it’s a real wealthy area I hear. It’s close though, the building this singles
ward meets in is in Westcliff Ward boundaries, but no overlap besides
that. Its weird, I never thought I’d
miss these people so much. But I already
miss some a ton. Things were picking up
big time so it’s real sad. I didn't get
to say as many goodbyes yesterday as I would have liked, but I’ll see people
around, and I might try and write some.
Yesterday after church we saw the Ts and K for a bit, then
we went to Ms for dinner, and then we went to the J
After PMG I gave J and
J signed ties. It’s ridiculous how
much I’m going to miss a lot of these people.
The Ms, I haven’t mentioned a whole lot in emails, but I probably
should have. C should be having
his kid real soon, if not already, December 10th is what they said a while
back. Our investigators are doing good
to, we taught a long lesson with C the other day, who knows the gospel well, has been coming to church almost a
year.. she home schools her two kids. From the
home school thing she is friends with some members and has been coming for a
while. She’s a really great lady, and
has studied many religions, of all sorts.
We taught L again, the Spirit was very strong, and he told a story
about his son a long time ago who drowned, and was being rushed in an ambulance
and he was following speeding, and praying, and he miraculously recovered with
no brain damage.
We also taught M again, he’s so interesting. The lesson
went great, he had read quite a bit from the BOM and found himself a favorite
scripture. He’s so broken and all from
his past. Wait have I mentioned him? It
was our second lesson this week with him.
He’s a super rough guy, recently out of jail, almost 30 years old. He’s white, about 6'1, muscular type
build, long black hair in a pony tail
pulled tight and the bottom part of his hair is all shaved off like a Native
American thing, he has a little beard with lines shaved through it, and he has
scars all over his face and arms. Our
first lesson was nuts. He was very
interested and wanted baptism badly, but has a long path. He’s very angry, but very eager.
He sits there scarily angry about the bad things he sees in the world,
and about his actions in the past... but cries so sincerely with happiness and
hope. He’s
clearly confused and lost but open.. Second lesson he for
the most part wasn’t so angry. He had read from the
Book of Mormon, loved it, believes it to be true, and was overall much more
happy. He brought up on his own how he
knows he has a long way to go, and that Satan has chains all over him through
his addictions. We didn’t even teach the Word of
Wisdom. He was sitting right next to me
and smoked a ton, and it was like a cloud of smoke around me the whole time, but I left and didn’t have a hint of smoke
on me. I sat there 45 minutes... He said he started drinking as a young child,
and has a long ways to go obviously. He
gets so happy when we are there, crying, and he is just so indescribably
genuinely happy. He’s excited to fill
his life with good things. He came to
church Sunday, he got there 20 minutes early, said he’d stay the whole thing,
spent a good amount of time talking to us and M and D.. and he
so genuinely delights in meeting happy people.
As rough as he looks the people that met him loved him. He was wearing some big black jeans, a black
unzipped hoodie, and a white shirt with skulls and stuff on it, and was so
embarrassed by the reflection of the life he has lead, but was so happy to be
there. He sang every hymn, and after
each song, was a little embarrassed and said he tried his best. He was very attentive and loved it. At the end of the sacrament meeting, he was still
real happy and enjoyed it, but said he had a doctor’s appointment and
apologized and left, and said goodbye to the people he had met. It was sad.
We stopped by his house later because I had said I would get him a shirt
and tie because I have one that’s a little too big, but he wasn’t home. He walks everywhere, no car.
So Elder C is
training and his greenie's first lesson is with M on Tuesday morning so
that should be fun. We also saw T again. Again, he’s gone, said he was drinking Jack Daniels and cough syrup. He
basically stands in his front yard all day at this mad house with like 20
people, some of which are normal. It's
like 8 at night, and we're standing in his front yard, and this old Cadillac out
of nowhere pulls up into his front yard right where were standing, and this guy is in there and he like yells, and a lady comes out of the house,
gives him a wad of cash through the window, and he gave her a Walmart bag full
of something and she goes back inside.
Then he’s like hey elders! and said he’s in the Rainbow Vista Spanish
ward, just had elders over for dinner (he had their names right) and said that he
was baptized 10 years ago or something, and said his wife sells tamales (that’s
what was in the bag) and T is just standing there completely out of it,
and then the guy says bye, pulls out and leaves. So weird. As gone as T is, it's weird how
intelligent of things he’ll occasionally say… like about the resurrection, or
war in heaven even…so I’m confused about him.
On my last SD card there’s
a picture of a guy walking with jeans pulled up high, and he’s all tatted and
shirtless... I took that a while back cause he looked funny, but met T a
month later and just realized that was him in the picture. So there he is. I want to go back and get a picture with him
before I head out, but probably not.
So Elder P is leaving Mesquite Elder P
I love you all so much!
Elder Pyron
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