This week started when a lady came knocking on our door (knowing it
was two gringo missionaries) then told us how her daughter needed this illegal
medicine from Mexico, and knows where to get it. So we just sat there not
knowing what to do, she never asked for help, just stated that she needed this
drug, we kinda assumed she wanted us to pay for it, so we just told her it
might help her baby and she should buy it, then she left.
We also had a few
more days without water, so we had to travel to Piata to shower. Then we had a
super fun service project just leveling some guys back yard so he could build
on it. Then Saturday is when things went crazy, we spent all day from 3 to 9
walking every part of our area trying to get some of our investigators to
attend church, we passed by every investigator, convert,and a lot of
members, we only got into 3 houses, and the longest appointment was 15 minutes.
So we were dead tired from walking and were hot, so at 9 we go to the room to
pick up some money and go buy dinner, but our door is crap and you have to use the
force of God to open it, so this time the key gave up and snapped in half. We
had absolutely no way to get into our room. So we rush to get a copy made, the
store is closed, but luckily to drunk "angels" were sitting outside
and told us where the guy lived,so we rushed to his house. He brought us back
to his store and at 9:30 he made us 2 copies. We thought all was good, but
turns out the keys didn't work, we ended up breaking the lock, with the help
of our neighbor, we credit carded our door open (with a knife and a metal rod).
The only problem is if we left our room, we couldn't close our door or we would
be locked out again. So we spent all of Sunday just in our room since we couldn't leave, we had a member deliver us lunch, then Sunday night we had to leave to go
to Piata- so we had a brilliant idea of tying string to the door handle inside,and
bringing it around the door, so from the outside we pull the string and it
opens the door,and so as of right now anybody who sees the string can break
into our room. It was a very stressful weekend with our door. Tonight or
tomorrow we should hopefully be getting a new lock installed on our door. Then
today for p-day we played soccer on the beach as a zone, and explored the area
of Piata.
Love,
Elder Luke Gruber
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