The crossing the border thing is all
right here, a lot of missionaries like to visit Ojinaga to just go to the
border. We can`t cross all the way
across the bridge, so as long as we just stand withing 100 yards of the sign we
are allowed to do it. My area used to be
allowed to cross over and teach in the Texas part of Ojinaga becasue a lot of
members live in that part, but an incident happened that the closed down the area
temporarily. That was in the past and
now there are U.S-based missionaries in the area. Anyway I was glad to hear that Maren locked
herself out of the jeep while it was in the middle of the road with the lights
on and engine running. It brings me joy
even after being here for 4 months that my 2 years with the jeep my only
incident was bathing it in mud ha ha ha. This week I finished the package I am
going to send, I`m only working on procuring a solid mailing method but so far
I haven`t had too much luck. I guess
that we`ll have to see how it goes ha ha. And as far as talking on Christmas we
are going to hopefully learn about that tomorrow, the Presidente of the branch
has allowed us to use his computer, but we just don`t know how the whole Skype
thing works. I will probably just say to
make a Skype profile and send me the details Monday and then I`ll contact it
with the mission account that I`m given.
This week was super cold. We had a really hard time finding people in
the streets this week, but secretly this made it really easy for us to find our
investigators, because they were all in their houses. Better yet, all the members pitied us so they
came on splits with us to keep us warm with the gift of heated cars. It was
great!!! We got to visit all of our
investigators and very quickly we were pulling off 6 lessons a day and many
more contacts and short visits, it was great! This week my companion and I had to give the talks
in church and we had to speak for 30 minutes combined, which isn`t very hard in
reality compared to when we have to teach investigators or teach the lesson in
district meeting for an hour. It was
suppose to be easy, except my companion decided to go and talk first. I didn`t think anything of this at first
until he finished his talk in about 5 minutes leaving me about 25 minutes. Luckily I just messed with the members for a
little, like in my seminary graduation talk and farewell talk, and then talked
about testimonies and the stories of Abinadi, and Brigham Young. I then challenged all the members to talk to
someone that isn`t a part of the church, and somehow I talked for 27 minutes ha
ha. The best part is all the members loved
the talk and want to come on splits with us or want to tell us about who they
are visiting and about their friends they want us to visit.
The big problem this week is that all of
us smell like marijuana because of my companion... last Monday before we left
to write he decided he wanted to cook some beans. The only problem is he forgot to turn them
off when we left to write for 2 hours and then to eat dinner for another 2
hours. We returned home to having smoke
pouring out of our windows. Luckily when
we opened the door there wasn`t any fire, just a very very smoky pot of
charcoal. The smoke had been roasting
our clothes in its scent ha ha. The smoke
and smell was pretty bad the first day.
We all went to bed with red eyes and every day of the week whenever we
enter a house the people always ask where we have been to get the smell of
churro (marijuana) on us. It is pretty
fun to explain to them that it was my companions cooking ha ha ha. I have had a fun time messing with him that I
have yet to burn anything ha ha.
Well other than that the only cool thing
about this week was that I now have 4 months in the mission and we celebrated it
by eating Cerviche that I made with the help of a professional chef that is our
investigador in this moment, it was awesome!
Well see you next week, and if you catch
me quickly email me back, i enjoy the conversations a lot!
Elder Bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
miracles 167
tortillas 577
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