Tyler Bell	Nov 10

Thanks mom!!! The blog is great! For my scripture,
I think I'll stick with the one I originally chose, Enos 1: 8, 9, and 12.
Everything is going great here, well almost everything. We lost an
investigator this week because his pastor basically attacked the
church and told him that none of it was true and was an abomination.
He also said that the Book of Mormon was an invention made to deceive
by a really really intelligent educated man. We tried to tell him that
Joseph Smith didn't have an education and the only way he could know
if the church was true for himself is if he read and prayed but he
didn't really want to listen to us. This was kind of rough.
Honestly, the biggest troubles we are having here are that the people
don't really know what they believe or what their church believes.

We tell them things such as the celestial kingdom or that
families can be together forever and they respond by saying, "oh ya,
of course. That’s what we believe in.

 Also we didn't have any investigators assistir a la
Iglesias esta semana. It was kind of rough. But we did have the most
menos activo miembros tenemos todavia. I don't think that it helps
that church is at 8 in the morning. Nobody wants to wake up!
We also had a cool experience with one of our investigators.

He loves to read but has never owned a book and doesn't
remember or understand anything he reads which can be really difficult
at times. We gave him a book of Mormon this week and he was super
excited. It made me super happy. It's amazing all the things we have
in the U.S. and here most people have never even owned anything that
wasn't primarily for survival.
I changed companions for a day this week and Elder ___ came to work
with me in my area. We taught more lessons than I have in the past and
contacted more people. It was great because I was directing everything
we did.

 We also found a huge list of Menos activos and old
investigators that we can contact and so far it's been really helpful.
There is definitely a smart way to do missionary work!
We also had to stay in our casa for an hour extra one day this week
because there was a big fight right outside our window.

It was only high school kids that wanted to prove themselves but it was
still a pretty finasco with the police and all. Another big problem is
that almost none of the men here hold the priesthood because they
don't attend church enough. So almost none of them have
callings but we're working on it and things are progressing bit by bit.
That was pretty much my week. It's amazing how fast time flies by. I
didn't really believe it would go this fast before my mission but it
is definitely zooming by faster than ever before. I love you!!!!!
MTTCT!!!!!
Elder Bell