...car wash references

So this week was one of my favorite weeks of the mission so far.

Tuesday was a normal work day. We found a lot of new investigators and went to visit the people that got confirmed on Sunday.

Wednesday was way sweet. We did interchanges. Elder Christiansen came over to my area with me and Elder Francis went with Elder Christiansens comp Elder Hernandez. It was pretty tight. It was fun to work with Elder Christiansen and the best part was that our lessons were really spiritual. We taught lesson 3 a bunch of times to a lot of people with talks about the gospel faith repentance baptism receiving the holy ghost and enduring to the end. Coming out of the first lesson we had a long talk walking to the other side of the area. We were talking about the gospel and how easy it is. Our Heavenly Father gives us 5 steps and says. ``Hey, do this and you will be happy`` It`s pretty basic. We were walking on this dirt road through this little canyon with little cement shacks all over the place and we were like. ```Who would have thought in the MTC that we would be walking where we are walking 17 months later`` It was tight.

Thursday night we got a call that President Nancollas` son Taylor was going to come with us from Friday morning to Tuesday. (He`s with us right now) He is way tight. He has lived in South America almost all his life so he knows spanish and everything. He has made it a fun weekend. He`s really funny and has his mission call to go to Russia Dec 30. We have been havin a good time.

Friday was the day of interviews. We were running around the whole zone doing baptismal interviews and we had another great week as a zone completing with our goals and even gettin some more people baptized than planned. OH, and I hit my head on this thing. I had a huge gash on my head and I had blood all over my face, but I am ok now. I called Sister Nancollas and I went and got it checked out. I chose not to get stitches. I dont trust the mexican doctors. It`s not really a big cut though. All is well. I`ll tell you about that at Christmas if you want. You can`t even see it cause it`s under my hair.

Saturday we had a zone activity. The visitors center people came to a church and gave an exhibit. It was our job to get as many investigators in the church as possible. The problem was that there is a church that is right on the border of our mission and their arent that many people our houses by it cause it is right by an off ramp of the freeway. We came up with another idea to have a free car wash instead of the normal idea of knocking doors. We thought that it work that well because the church isn`t positioned in the best spot, but it ended up being a huge success. We had Elders on the freeway yelling at cars to stop for free car wash. Elders contacting in the street. The rest of us washed cars. We ended up washing like 70 cars in the span of only a couple hours. We washed combi`s, police cars, motorcycles, bikes, and even a couple huge semi trucks. Washing my truck in high school definately paid off. It was so much fun. When they were waiting for their cars to get washed they would go inside and check out the visitors center exhibit. We got a ton of references. The field is white all ready to harvest. It was a really fun day. The visitors center people were pumped because we had over 150 people go through the exhibit. A great morning. All afternoon we visited Amalia and Carlos to make sure they were going to go to church for the confirmation and we visited almost ALL of our investigators.

Today we played basketball as a zone and it was tight. I rolled my ankle at the end and when it happened I was really nervous that it would be more serious, but I knew what to do when it happened and I`m walking around like normal. I said a little prayer and I think Heavenly Father heard it. He needs me to run around and help Him bring his kids back to His presence. My ankle is already up to like 90 percent. It happened this morning so I am fine now. Oh and we played how the winner stays on the court and my team didn`t lose so I was so tired. It was me and Elder Weston from Utah and 2 mexicans. Great fun.

Well I gotta go real quick. If I have time I`ll write a little more later cause Francis still needs to write his fam.

Con amor,
Elder Heap