Pretty good week this week
So just a handful of weeks ago my comp and i were walking in the rain.... pretty bummed out for a few things that had happened.... When suddenly we heard someone coming behind us on a bike. We quickly asked him a simple question as he passed by
When can we come visit you?
He stopped his bike and said, Great question..... when?
We started talking to him under the rain..... it lead to a very interesting conversation.... he was drunk.... has scars all over his face.... proceded to tell me how he doesnt trust noth americans and various other things.... we put a date to go visit him Just to see what the Lord had in store for us.
A lot of you who are reading this may not understand what it is exactly we do as missionaries. With Luis we taught him all we had.... we were just shared with him a mesage about the love God has for him and explained all we could with him.
He is a man who has suffered a lot in his life.... many near death accidents... family issues..... and more than anything a drinking addiction which caused him to loose everything.
We spent a lot of time working with him. Helping him change his life... there were fall backs and it wasnt easy at all for him but he became a true friend of ours..
One day when we were pretty down on ourselves for how things were going in our area he told us
Look there are a lot of people that dont care about what you do.... just let them be and dont get down on yourselves.... if you guys hadnt talked to me id probably be drunk and passed out on the street.
This last week he got baptized.... which was pretty awesome being my last week here in sonaguera..... he suprised as as we were planning his baptism for december....
pretty cool how the Lord changes lives.
Im going to El progreso as district leader, I got a call from pres. last night.... basically going to fix the place. I am going to catch a 2 am bus on Wednesday. Pres. is expecting that I flip the area around and get things going there again.
He was near Olanchito before but now will be where the red dot is. This puts him back in a more dangerous area, but we know our prayers for safety have been and will continue to be answered.,
