If you don't like the weather......

 

 

 

 Tornado season is here! and we are in what's called Tornado Alley! Maybe we will see one. Its cool, you can feel all the cold air from the north, and all the warm air from the south. One day it will be in the 80's with the wind northward, and the next day there is ice on the windows and it is in the 40s with the wind coming south. Liberal is 40 miles of what is considered the exact midpoint geographically of the U.S. IT takes the same exact time in a car to go to san Francisco and New York where we are right now. Pretty cool.

 

IT was 90 degrees on Saturday, today it snowed. there is s saying in Kansas "if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes". And the weather really does change that fast. But looking forward to tornados.

 

This week out here was awesome. So me and elder Malo said that we were really going to try to talk to everyone this week. No matter what they were doing we would not come back to the apartment unless we had found 5 new investigators every single day. We didn't see the blessings until Saturday. So in Liberal there are a bunch of ice cream men. But they don't drive trucks. they have these little hand bush carts with bells tied around their necks. Looks like Mexico. But they just walk all over the place in the afternoons, and we always buy ice cream. So we met one of the guys named Juan Morales from Guatemala, and we got his address but it was a bad address. But it was weird, we just kept running back into him throughout the week, until we finally found out where he lived. but he wasn't even home when we went but the other guy he lives with was. The other guys name is Carlos De Leon, from Guatemala as well. But anyways we taught him about the Restoration, and he accepted to be baptized. He is the most prepared person I've seen! He clicked with everything we said. He's a really smart guy.

 

But anyways we were mentioning to a member Sunday morning that we had an investigator named Carlos de Leon, and they could hardly believe us. So it turns out Carlos is a High priest in the Catholic church, and super well known amongst the whole community, especially the Latinos. Even all the white people know him because he has been the greeter at Walmart (the only grocery store) for 20 years. When he came to church yesterday, everyone already knew him. He doesn't speak much English, but even all the white members knew him. And all the Spanish converts that used to be catholic were just it awe, because their catholic priest was at church. We had no idea that so many people knew him! But it is awesome because he will be key in bringing many others into the church for the Spanish community if he continues on his own road to baptism. He's a super cool guy.

 

As district leader I have to go on exchanges with every elder in the district at least once every transfer. On Tuesday I went to mead Kansas, with Elder Stanford, and we had an awesome day! We put 5 different people on baptismal date in one day. It was sweet. I actually met elder Stanford at EFY that one year we went. We played soccer together in the gym, everyday. So the district is all doing super well. We have 11 people progressing to baptism, and the standard for the mission is 4. I love Liberal!