Elder Jensen and I ballin' it up with Prabhu!
The amazing lady from KGF (and her family) whose baptism interview I
had the privilege of conducting! She is awesome and super ready to be
baptized. Fun side note: she only
speaks Kannada so I had to interview
her via translator! Incredible experience
funny photo of our crazy zone from zone training this past week!
HAPPY GANESH CHATURATHI, Y'ALL! As missionaries, we will be celebrating this huge Hindu holiday by being on lockdown after 6PM for the next three days or so haha. We aren't allowed to take pictures of all the happenings, unfortunately, but it's NUTS, I have seen some of the BIGGEST Ganesh statues I've ever seen in my life in the past week, and those were just the preparations for this festival. It's crazy! But a crazy cool time to be in India right now and I couldn't accurately express my gratitude for this amazing opportunity.
This
past week we have been working with one of our SOLID investigators, his
name is Prabhu. Prabhu is something like twenty four years young and
fresh out of business school. He is pretty cool because his grandfather
was a pioneer in Bangalore, as in baptized back in the 80's, I
believe. However, Prabhu and his family remained Hindu! It has been
really cool working with him and seeing where he's coming from. He has a
lot of questions that have been answered by the Lord's beautiful Plan
of Salvation and he lights up as he learns things, it's awesome.
Something funny is that Prabhu asked Elder Jensen and I to teach him how
to play basketball. Prabhu is pretty tall and once we made a passing
comment, and asked if he'd ever played before. He said no but that he
really wanted to learn how! So we've been teaching him (whilst
simultaneously teaching him the gospel)! I will send a picture, it's
pretty funny.
Also this week I had the
opportunity to travel to Kolar Gold Fields, or what we call KGF for
short, this week for a baptism interview. KGF is about a three hour bus
ride outside of Bangalore so that was quite the experience for me and
Elder Jensen. It was cool to see rural India at its finest. Funny
experience though: the bus we took out to KGF was PACKED, as in I
couldn't even move, and I was sitting down! But in my immobile state,
somehow I felt a tap on my shoulder. I swiveled my head around (to the
extent that I could) to see what was up. A man was trying to ask me
something in Tamil. I responded that I didn't understand (though I
certainly tried) and turned my head back around, just minding my own
business. Then, no more than a few seconds later, a young boy (anywhere
from five to seven years old) came and sat himself right on my lap,
and stayed there! For an hour! I guess the man was trying to ask me
if it was alright for his young son to sit on my lap! I thought that
was pretty funny, I hope I explained it well enough for you guys to get a
laugh out of it as well.
Well, everyone have a
happy Ganesh Festival and keep the faith (in Christ of course, not
Ganesh.....unless you're Hindu I guess)!
Elder Tuscano
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