February 22, 1997, Saturday
Well, what a day. [My companion,] he’s a good guy. […] We tried to go out and baptize one of our gators today and nothing. […] It was a bad day. All was as though it was falling through. […] We taught Tomas’s brother and father today. David Valencia took us out for Pizza today. And Florez set a date. Those were the only highlight.
February 23, 1997, Sunday
Well, we had a miracle today. We went out on splits and tried to pick up all of our gators but both of us ended up at the church without anything. Nothing. Dang. We sat there going what? Well, just then one of our gators walked in. Wow. He liked church. He told the president. I feel like this is my family. Wow. So, after church, we taught him a few more things and he just said. OK, I want to do it. […] Just told him it was important and he came right out and said, “I want to get baptized.” But get this. He came on his own. He left his home and came right there all by himself. Nobody does that. His family hates us. But the spirit moved his soul. And he came. He’s very humble. And when I gave him the Holy Ghost the spirit told me he was going to be a leader of the church. And that was part of his blessing. Crazy. I tripped on that. It was the bomb.
February 24, 1997, Monday.
Wow, well we didn’t get Jack accomplished and so we were kinda down. Oh well.
February 25, 1997, Tuesday
We started out with breakfast and had a street meeting in the afternoon. My companion fearlessed some dude and we taught him. He said, “Ya, I want to get baptized.” He wanted to get something to eat first. We took him and bought him lunch instead. Then took him to the church and he got baptized. Wow, how incredible. The Sisters were there [Sister & Sister] They were bugging on it, butt that’s OK.
Oh last night we went to see the Guzman Family. They are the bomb. They make me laught. They are like my family. I love them.
Oh, tonight, we saw Araclies ??? Aroclies?? And she may get baptized Sunday. We pumped her up for it. And doing what Bailey said to do, […] She’s going to do it. If she doesn’t get baptized sooner. I’m pumped. And metal head wants to get baptized tomorrow at 12 noon. No fear!
February 26, 1997 Wednesday
Well, I hit 19 months today. (5 months remaining) The baptism of all baptisms, we baptized Metal Head today. Wow, it was so clean. It being p-day we relaxed after the baptism then went to pick up our people and nothing. On the way we saw Metal Head and his buddy. [Metal Head] about got his butt kicked, then [his buddy] came and cursed us out for baptizing [Metal Head]. But, hay, Metal Head stood up for us and said the church was true. Wow. His friend said we should have asked his mother’s permission first. (He’s 20) I said, “why?” His friend about got his butt kicked. He’s a big […]. Anyhow, we had 3 or 4 converts at church tonight. Wow. 3 potential presithood holders. 3 men. Wow. Can you believe that. It kinda boggles my mind.
February 27, 1997 Thursday
Wow, we worked our [butts] off and nothing at all. I hurt, we did so much. (We walked all over). Well we did all we could. I’m hoping for better success tomorrow. We’ve got 4, our zone has 12. We’re trying to get 2 more. So, we need 8 more [as a Zone].
[…] (You gotta step it up). You’ve got to make decisions. Ya, Snap.
Well so you see, I’m pissed at […] all over him being a […] to me over eating somewhere. It’s all about […] and her wanting to commit suicide and not eating for 9 days and passing out. Then finding out afterwards that everyone really loves her. Anyhow, we’ll see what happens.
February 28, 1997 Friday
Well we went out working with lots of fire and had a lot of stuff lined up and we were [in a position] to break the record. We bumped into [Elder AP & Elder ZL], They said no don’t do it. So, we didn’t. We had worked some people so hard they were [not happy that we didn’t baptize them] but hay that’s OK. that stuff happens. We ended up watching a movie at the church with some kids.