Hey Y'all.
This week was pretty good, and went by fast, we were able to make some progress with some of our investigators. Shanti, is a girl we met a while ago, who lives with her parents, but is married and has one kid. We were able to teach her more, and has great questions we have the answers to, and is well versed on her Bible knowledge. She was busy on Sunday, but came to church anyways and had a couple of friends she knew there. Thats good news for us, because she has friends at church on the first day she came. Also a guy named Vinod Kumar who I found a month ago or so was able to come to church and have been teaching him. He doesn't claim a specific denomination of Christianity, but goes to many different churches each Sunday. He is in his 20s and is looking for a job, which is prefect because a lot of the YSA (young single adults) here are in the same boat. We were able to find a less active who's name is Ratna Kumari Rayudu, she lives with her husband and hasn't come to church in a while. She isn't able to leave her handicapped husband, so we bought him a new cane so he could come to church too. He isn't a member but said to give him 3 weeks and he'll be baptized. He has seen the example his family has set, and wants to be in church with his family. We had all 3 of them at church, which we haven't been able to accomplish since I've been here. Its even better that they came this Sunday because President Berrett came to Rajahmundry and attended church this Sunday too. For the time that I have been here, there have been a couple of times where a wild animal (a dog, cat, cow or even a rat) will walk right in to someones home and they are completely fine with it, as if it was normal. I find it terrifying. A lot of Indian Missionaries, at the end of their mission "adjust" back to their normal lifestyle before they go home. Its kinda sad for me to see, because if a missionary before their mission didn't sleep on a mattress before their mission, they'll sleep on the floor during their last month before they return home. Or if they don't have A/C (which most of them don't) they won't sleep in the bedroom (which is the only room that has A/C). I also found out Elder Kommalapati was a Hindu a long time ago, I asked him what it was like to be a Hindu but he didn't really know how to explain it. Until next time.
Love, Elder Magnusson
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