What's going on everyone! We only have two weeks left in this transfer, it's kind of ridiculous how fast time is flying by. Two weeks from yesterday(sunday) we'll know what's happening with transfers.
So this week....let's start off by keeping things interesting.....
We had a freakin' investigator that was kidnapped!! Typical Deming. The guy is now in jail for SEVEN different charges. His name was Ray and he stole some drugs from someone, threw Ashley in the back of her car, locked her in, took her phone when she was trying to call the cops and broke it, then somehow got someone's attention who then called the cops! Ray tried to go back his place where he said he was going to "rape" her and do all that crap, but then he finally showed up to his house (insanely high) and then was surrounded by cops who then tazed him to the ground because he was so non-responsive. We have been teaching Ashley how Satan will work through her surroundings if she's not careful, but wow, no one expected this to happen. We all got a bad feeling after she wouldn't respond to our texts, a member asked us the night she was apparently kidnapped if she was still in town, it's crazy how things work out. She is fine now, and has had some terrible surroundings while trying to prepare herself for baptism, but we're now shooting for June 22nd for her date, the last Saturday before transfers. We also gave her a healing blessing where she has very minimal pain since the blessing and said ever since then it's been feeling much better. The power of God is incredible.FINGERS CROSSED.
I want a Monster.
We had an investigator's 'ghost' attack one of our members while laying on a bed and their dog was going absolutely crazy and then he said he couldn't move for 30 mins! Julie is an investigator who we are working with and has been an alcoholic since she was really young. If we don't catch her when she's sober, she will just push us off. She has had an 'evil spirit' of someone she used to date who was later killed haunt her in her home. I don't think we'll ever cast out more evil spirits in our lives than we do here in Deming, but you can tell a difference immediately after. Cast out spirits a couple times on my mission so far, and looks like that isn't stopping hahah.
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| This is the place where the 'ghost' or whatever attacked of our members. haha. Pretty trippy. |
We also found out one of our less-actives is in jail for shooting an endangered hawk hahaha so funny...but sucks fo real.
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| This is where the drunk lady passed away...pretty creepy. |
Apparently a good 50% of Deming smokes meth, never been surrounded by so many drugs before haha. Elder Dayley says this place is much worse than his last place, Nogalis, which is supposedly one of the highest drug imports in the world hahah. We've seen quite a few drug deals go on around us...we've even been asked if we smoke...Go Deming.
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| They dug out that car that has been covered with dirt years! Not sure why they did....but it was cool. |
We were up at a Zone Meeting and we were doing introductions since it was the first one of the transfer, and when I went after Elder Bouwhuis who lived in Layton as well, and I said that I went on a date with his Sister....hahah it got a good laugh. Small world.
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| On an exchange with E. Jones, we were rivals this day. SUNDEVILS. |
My brother might be on MTV. WTF. AWESOME.
Cool quote: "Making these sacrifices, there is a possibility of having enjoyment in the anticipation of what will be the final results."
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| I've learned more about farming here in a few months than I've known in my whole life. E. Dayley knows just about everything about farming...maybe my farm will grow BMW's. |
Another one: "Pray as if everything depends on the Lord, work as if everything depends on us."
There's often a lot of interesting people on the streets down here. Yesterday we came across a guy named "Bill Russel" who I'm sure was on speed because...he was going nuts. It's sort of sad when one of the first things you do when you talk to people on the street is check their pupils and then check to see if they have track marks on their arms hahah. He had some. We also have talked to a guy named James who has some interesting beliefs and tried to use Joseph Smith against us...but he got shut down pretty hard. He goes out and preaches some bible stuff with an interesting way of doing it, but while he was trying to pull up the bible app on his iphone, he kept saying "In the name of Christ I rebuke thee thine enemy!!" over and over and was completely serious...E. Dayley and I just looked at each other and tried not to laugh. He acted as if Satan took over his phone or something...pretty strange.
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Green lights = drug dealer. Red Lights = prostitution. Blue lights = ...something not very good. A green light was just put up outside right next door to us haha. Our neighbors like us tho, they're pretty chill.
I got poked by a cactus one day and my arm went numb...so weird.
(In the middle of writing home my testimony, the power freakin' went off here at the library hahah, luckily it was saved! Go Deming)
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| E. Dayley right after the power went out here. |
Yesterday, we played soccer with the Spanish branch and Sister missionaries. It felt SO good to get back on a field. Our church is one of the very few places that actually has grass down here haha, it's not the best, but it's enough to play some futbol on! It was about 100 degrees when we played... holy hot. Luckily we were playing with a bunch of kids so they started a water fight with us all with a hose and water bottles and what not. Man, too bad we can't go boating on PDAY...guess there's no lake here anyways..
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| Right after the waterfight.....a very big tan difference we know hahah |
Later we went and taught 'Orlando' a 23 year old hispanic who has had his girlfriend 'April' for years along with her 5 kids. They love having us over and told us that it's the highlight of their day. We always go over there and have things to talk about with them, they have had a pretty crappy situation and Orlando was actually just fired from his job for no reason and is a really hard worker, and now we'll have to see what happens when he talks to his probation officer since he has no job - a requirement for being on probation if you don't want to go back to jail. We got him a BD! Although he might have to get approval from the 1st Presidency (as does most of the people we have get baptism dates for down here) he's so stoked and we taught him the Plan of Salvation yesterday and answered a lot of his questions. We love going over there, and will be going over there lots now. He's looking for a job everywhere, but Deming is rough to say the least so it might be a struggle. -_- Fingers crossed again!
The weather is supposed to be in the 100's here all week, and apparently in Tucson it was 111 the other day! It doesn't get cool here until like 9 or 10 at night is when it'll start dipping down. We taught Orlando at about 6pm with the sun beaming down on us outside, it was 102 degrees, and we were out there for a good 1.5 hours or so. hahah so awesome.
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| This is where we teach Orlando and his fam. 102 degrees babay! Going to try and get more pics with people we teach |
We have 15 dead big cockroaches on our floor.
Missionaries love the Sonic shakes. We usually get one every week :D haha.
Anyways, although fasting, biking in suits in 104 degree weather may be rough, we can do anything with the help of God. Grateful for this work.
Not sure if I have bore my testimony for the fellas back home...here we go blog world:
The Atonement of Jesus Christ, eternal families, power of prayer, and the gospel of Jesus Christ have never meant nearly as much to me as they have now. It's such a comfort to know that when anyone of us make a mistake here on this life, that our Heavenly Father never looks DOWN at us and shakes his head in disappointment. He is sad when we make mistakes, but is there 24/7 for us to rely on to get us out of the ditch we have dug ourselves. Christ created this remarkable world for us, it's a comfort to know that creating a plan for every single human being, was an important task that he would never overlook. Not one of us is put through things we can't handle. I am so grateful for my Heavenly Father, and am grateful for this outlook on life this gospel and mission have given me. In Romans it says "If God be for us, who can be against us?" It's a true statement, and it effects everyone of us. If any of us have doubts in what we're doing, we can have our goals backed up from our friend above. There's nothing better than to have our Heavenly Father pushing us along the path we're striving to excel on. I am so grateful for my family, and eternal family has only recently meant something to me, as we will be together for an amount of time that isn't even fathomable. D&C 31:2. I love my Savior and his perfect example. I am so grateful for my friends and everyone I've encountered over the past years and over these past weeks. In the name of our Sacred Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
Thank you everyone for the support! Always rocks to get letters to hear how everyone is doing. I have some daang awesome friends and family.
YOSO - You Only Serve Once. Awe yeah
Have a good week everyone! :]
-Elder Dallin Hales
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Just read our email from Pres. Here's cool quote that would be awesome to be stuck on the blog as well.
It's from the first black president in South Africa, so I thought it'd be alright to share:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we subconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Thank you all!
Thank you all!
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