Sounds like a fun, Christmas is coming soon. Unfortunately I still don´t know how the
whole skyping thing works so hopefully they tell me how to do it relatively
soon and when we can we do the ilumina el munda (Light the World) campaign. We
hand out some really cool cards that have the Virgin Mary on them, and the best
thing about this is that the catolicas (Catholics) can´t go and throw them away
because of the picture, so they always put them in their wallet or pocket. Then
we ask them what Christmas means to them.
Finally, we ask them if we can come share a special Christmas message,
we have yet to be turned down for our christmas message. Now I´m back to the
same problem we had in Delicias, we have too many investigators. It is great because it just gives us the
challenge of finding the investigators that really want to look for something
bigger. Here is an example, we now have
2 investigators that are helping the church in other ways and now they are
asking about being baptized and one of them could be baptized at any
second!
Unfortunately this week we didn´t get any snow,
but we got about a half foot of water. A
lot of the roads couldn´t be crossed because of how much water fell. Of course with all the water, this was a very
cold week. We would go to bed seeing our
breath and wake up seeing our breath in the morning. I decided that instead of
freezing solid while I slept that I should open the heating blanket, so I
opened that present early, it has changed my life ha ha ha. I enjoy putting it on a timer to heat up 30
minutes before I go to bed, it´s fun to see my bed start steaming while we
write in our journals, my companions pretty jealous but he has the bottom bunk
so he gets to use the heater so he´s fine ha ha ha.
One of the fun parts of this week was all the
contacting we got to do. My companion
and I set a daily goal of 8 new investigators every day, and not just any
investigator, 8 investigators that have a big potential or in mission terms a
group A. The only problem is to get all
these strong investigators it means about 20 to 40 contacts everyday. The big problem about ojinaga is that it is
where all the rich Mexicans live, and if you have money, then why walk when you
can drive and show off your car. So we
have to literally take the opportunity to talk to every person that we see in
the streets, even if they are a little sketchy, but it´s been pretty fun. We have an investigator that is convinced
that God has been robbing him, we of course told him that god can´t physical
rob him of his money, he promptly asked us "then who is the man in the
sombrero and boots who took 20 pesos from me", he still hasn´t figured out
that just because someone named Jesus is robbing him doesn´t mean that God is
robbing him ha ha ha.
This week we had a youth follow along that was
giving us a reference. He said he would
only give us the reference if we paid for him to see Texas, so he showed us how
to get there and then we walked past about 40 guards in our massive trench
coats and paid 4 pesos to go to Texas without showing papers or anything. It was great especially because my green card
is still in Chihuahua so they could´ve held me if they had wanted to ha ha
ha. If you have ever wondered how much
it costs to move to Texas, it´s 4 pesos. If you´re walking or 26 pesos if you are in a
car.
Well other than that is was a plain old week, and
I guess I got to make massive hamburgers one day for lunch. I thought they were good, but my companion
ate to the point where he had a tough time getting aroun
Well that´s all for this week!
Elder Bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
miracles 156
tortillas 521
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