So on Monday or so; we dropped by a potential investigator on Leticia's
street, but before we could knock, someone comes out, walks up to us and says
"Hey, do you got a Bible!?" We connected to him pretty much instantaneously and
he wanted us back. His name's Javier from Guatemala; and he said, "yeah, come
back, I've got a bunch of questions!!!" So we did. We brought him a Bible, and
a Book of Mormon for good measure.
When we taught
the Restoration, he was totally absorbed, and I'm pretty sure that when Elder
Carter recounted to him the First Vision, he believed it 100% from the get-go,
until I said, "Yeah, it's a hard story to believe, so that's why we have the
Book of Mormon" He's AWESOME!!!
Then, just yesterday, as we were walking on the same street, another guy
comes out of a door and asks us for a Doctrine and Covenants!!! Everybody on
that street keeps asking us for books of scripture! This guy was a little odd
though. He'd obviously had a rough life, and he had some of the WEIRDEST
religious beliefs I'd ever heard, but it was a blast listening to him explain it
all. As he talked though, it amazed me how much deep Doctrine he truly
understood. He almost explained our true eternal purpose and potential EXACTLY
as we believe it. It was odd, but I think I heard more truth out of him than
out of most mainstream Christians I've listened to.
Leticia came to church with her kids as usual; and everything is rolling
right along. This last week she had a friend ask her about "who told Joseph
Smith to write the Book of Mormon?" And she said basically, "God did! Kind of,
What happened is that first, God and Jesus appeared to him, and then later an
Angel told him where to find it; It had been already written, he just translated
it by the power of God!" It was a perfect answer! It's awesome too, because
she said, "Before I used to talk to people about my beliefs sometimes, but I
wasn't really very sure. Now it's weird, because I don't know very much, but I
KNOW it, and when I talk about it to them, I'm VERY sure." She's a total
BOSS!!
As far as missionary dress code; we haven't heard anything about that, but
we're having Zone conference this Wednesday, so we'll see. Based on how this
mission operates, I doubt it'll change here. My clothes have all held up
perfectly; I'll easily complete my mission in these. (I've even only used one
pair of shoes from day 1! I'm switching off on the 15th of next month.) The
only thing I can think of in terms of "birthday" business 
is a CD I've
heard around; I think it's by Eclipse? It's got a lot of awesome songs on it;
one of which I think is called is "Go with me." If that's not enough
information to find it, that's cool. I really don't need anything; life is
good! I can't believe Tom and Thomas are leaving the MTC already! I was there
for like FOREVER!!!
I love you all; I hope everything is doing good on the home-front. Thanks
for being awesome and super supportive; this would be super hard if you were all
telling me I was wasting my time, doing the work of the devil, and need to come
home. I know an Elder who gets that every week. Yikes!
Love,
Elder Matthew David Clough
