Now, i'm not a military fanatic by no means, but something i've always found fascinating has been Navy Seals. There just the top dawgs ya know. I've always loved learning about them, watching movies about them, its amazing. Something that makes Navy Seals so unique, is the insanely intense training they do. During training they have something called "hell week" which is basically a week of crazy tough training on basically no sleep to "weed out" the weak people, so that there squad consists of only the toughest of the tough. Now as missionaries we don't go through training like that, but I do believe that God sometimes gives us those super tough weeks to "weed out" the weak ones, I personally believe that God gives us harder weeks and trials to see if we will truely be faithful even when things don't go our way
This week was one of those weeks, definitely one of the tougher weeks of the mission. I don't know why, but I kid you not EVERY single person we talked to this week was some crazy evangelical who's read every page of the bible. It was ridiculous.
Thursday was actually the worst day of my life. Like I actually got bullied. I always thought like the persecution of the church stuff ended in the 1800's but wow, i've never been bullied so much for my beliefs in my life. Some guy called me an idiot because the bible doesn't say the word "america" therefore the book of mormon is false. Like literally after a ton of rejection all day, our last contact I went up to this women and she "hey maam how are..." and I could tell she was about to reject me haha and I go "wait, before you say no, today was a really hard day, i just wanted to see how ur doin" and she goes "oh ok", we start talking then she talks about how prophets and revelations ended after the death of Christ, and I go "No god loves us so much he restored his gospel and called a prophet!" And I kid you not this is basically what she said "kid, i hope you wake up one day, when u wake up you'll realize how dumb you look", haha i literally couldn't believe it, i had just finished saying this was one of the hardest days of my life and then she said that haha, so i started laughing out loud and just let her walk away it was funny
Friday ya boy got murdered by alergies, sneezed a good 500 times
I think the hardest part about training is the fact that the kid you trainee copies literally every single thing you do, like i mean EVERYTHING, basically how it works is that, if i'm happy, he's happy, if i'm upset, he's upset, if im complaining, he starts complaining, so i basically have to be on my game 24/7 or we get no where, so this week was especially difficult
This week did end good tho, we had the baptism of Rubi!!! Her dad baptized her it was awesome, and what made it even better was that Rubi's mom has been a member her whole life, and her whole family is active in other wards, and so like during the baptismal service like 50 members from other wards came and brought I kid you not like 20 pies and 20 cakes it was nuts! We also ran out of water in the church filling up the font, she got baptized laying down it was sick, this is the Lord's work!
Sorry long email last thought, but on week's like these, sometimes I find myself asking like "why", like bruh I left my country, family, friends, studies behind to come to Argentina and this is how i get treated, its a very prideful thought I know, but sometimes i start thinking that on those tough weeks, but almost every time those thoughts comes to my mind, the spirit always teaches me about Jesus Christ, if we want to talk about someone who was treated poorly lets talk about Christ, someone who put everything behind for us, someone who suffered everything so that we don't have to. So when you guys have tough weeks like Elder Clouse, and want to complain, just remember that Christ suffered worse, insomuch that we don't even feel the fullness of our sufferings, so I believe after the toughest of weeks, we should always end it with a prayer of gratitude for our Savior
Love yall!
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