Don´t worry, I actually had quite the birthday
here, because 3 of the missionaries are leaving today. They threw a big party and we all ate waffles
and had a weekly planning meeting. It was
fun and they all sang me a happy birthday song.
It was a weird song about waking up, you´re not going to live very long,
but cool anyways. Then in the afternoon
an investigator threw me a party as well.
We ate hamburgers and watched Johnny Lingo. It was fun.
To finish it off they bought me a little cake. It was a perfect day.
Otherwise, this week was pretty ordinary, lots of
work and lots of walking. We did paint one of our investigators houses and that
was fun. We had 4 missionaries come help
us out who love the investigators we are working with right now. Another cool thing was that our zone had the
most baptisms this month. Our zone´s
name was inscribed on the mission trophy.
Our companionship contributed 2 of the 9, which was awesome. If our zone loses our zone leader is not a
happy guy ha ha.
Today is my last day with my current companion
and my new companion is Elder Vargas. He
loves to play Fifa on the Xbox, hopefully also on the playing field as
well. You were worried my Xbox skills would not be appreciated out here. Both of my companions have been
district leaders. They have asked me to
help out with some of their leadership responsibilities. Every Tuesday I teach an hour lesson, and
often I handle the telephone calls with the other missionaries. Depending on the circumstances, sometimes
with the investigators as well. It´s fun to teach and feels a lot like back in
Utah when I taught the classes on family history. Only these lessons are on trying to help the
missionaries get the spirit of missionary work and work hard.
One cool experience we had was when we had just
finished my birthday party with the investigators a dear man approached us and
led us to his house. It turns out he
isn´t a member, but his father is an inactive member. This man wanted to come join us for church
on Sunday, which was way cool. That night we studied how to sign. I have been working hard on learning the
alphabet. It is cool how fast it is
coming. The next day we talked to his
family and they all agreed to come to church the next day as well. They were super enthusiastic about it as
well. Unfortunately, on Sunday morning
when we stopped by to pick them up they told us that the police were coming so
they couldn´t come to church. Of course
we believed them... just kidding, we get weird excuses all the time. So we were a little discouraged. But this time as we were standing in the
street waiting for another investigator all of a sudden 2 police cars pulled up
to the house. Apparently they had been
robbed that night. Anyways we talked to them some more later and we think
we can get them to come to church and consider being baptized. Well as long as they don’t get robbed again,
ha ha ha.
Otherwise it´s been just an average super fast
week like usual ha ha. Oh and I finally
finished everything for my green card, so I´ll soon no longer be an illegal alien
in Mexico. I also received the first
dear elder letter as well.
Elder Bunch
Delicias Chihuahua
miracle count;106
tortilla count; 189
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