Marituba 18

This week was good. Not too much happened, but we did have the "get to know the president" conference which was fun. The new president seems really smart. We just listened to him talk for a bit, but we will have interviews with him at the end of the month. He changed a whole lot of stuff right away which not that many missionaries are liking and aren't too happy about. I think that's probably normal for when a new mission president comes just because you get to know one so personally and so it's hard to work with the new one.
This week my companion's back hurt a lot, but we ended up being blessed because we couldn't walk too far, but we ended up getting lots of references and lots of people who wanted to work with us. We have a baptism planned for the Young Men President's cousin and two other people we were teaching we visited with a member. They were super excited and said they got a response to their prayer and want to get baptized, but the problem is they work every Sunday. However they said they are going to skip work next Sunday to visit, and to get baptized you need to have visited at least 2 times before you can get baptized so we just have to wait one more, and hopefully they still have the desire.
Also Saturday we taught a family of a grandma, a single mom, and two daughters that are 19 and 20 so we realized that meant they could visit the single people activity ( I forgot the name in English) there was going to be that night. Which they ended up going to and loved it. The absolutely hilarious thing was all of the single guys love it too, and I don't think I have gotten so many offers to go out and teach with the missionaries or offers to drive people we are teaching to church. I am glad we found a way to excite young single men about missionary work. However the mom and grandma came to church on Sunday too and loved it so I am excited to visit them again this week.
One miracle I saw this week was that my companion's back is pretty much destroyed so it's hard to walk long distances and work. However this week we had lots of help from the members and lots offered to give us rides so that was awesome. Another is that this week I was ran over by a car and I was like, "well, that's it for my mission I guess I'm going home," but then I just stood back up and walked again, and my companion was like, "what the heck." However I survived with no scratches so that was miracle.
Love,
Elder Holcomb

[I asked Isaac for info about getting run over and he said: "Getting run over by a car wasn't that bad, it was just my leg and then I fell over, but I just said ran over in my email because that sounds cooler."]