Sounds like a pretty intense week passed by in Utah
ha ha ha. Not too much passed by here,
this week we started out the first 3 days in Chihuahua because of a zone
conference. We had to assist in the conference
or face the wrath of the zone leaders 3 hours away from our area ha ha. It ended up being pretty fun. In the buses from here to Chihuahua you just
watch movies the entire time. They have
those tv´s that fall from the ceiling and play videos, we watched Iron man 3,
John Carter, and a movie about egg (awesome movie but I think it´s only in
spanish), and more. And then in Chihuahua our entire zone went paintballing with
overpowered paintball guns. It was great
because I didn´t get hit, but it wasn´t too fun for the people that got hit
because the balls with the pressure are so strong that they cut into you and
give you a pretty nice cut especially if it hits your hands ha ha. I took down the president’s assistant when he
ran out of ammo and he´s still pretty mad at me. My zone leader also shot him, so we are
buddies now ha ha. That actual meeting was pretty boring but we had a practice
contacting game and I was the chosen investigator and 2 missionaries had to
find me out of a group of 20 missionaries.
The main problem was that the 2 missionaries were more or less newbies, so
I made it easy on them and pretended to be a super drunk contact that wanted a
bath. I kept yelling, “venga joven
quiero cambiar mi vida, or quiero su bautismo arrita”. I thought that I was a
pretty convincing investigator, but the missionaries passed over me, so I
slowly got louder and louder, and in the end the entire zone was laughing and
the missionaries gave up trying to find the hidden investigator. We then had a very long lesson about talking
to every person even the drunk people ha ha ha. You never know who God
may have prepared.
This week we decided to finally teach one of our
investigators that only likes to drink coffee about the word of wisdom. She didn´t take it to well, but she has
promised us that she is not going to going to drink coffee or smoke, or drink,
or do drugs, because apparently she liked to do all those things as well. So go figure, sometimes when you look for one
problem you find a whole bunch ha ha ha, but with Gods help they can be corrected. My only surprise is that she had a baptism
interview a week before we arrived in the area, so someone wasn´t doing their
job if she hadn´t heard about the word of wisdom ha h aha. That is alright because that is just how some
of the missionaries are here, they call it conviction baptisms and it´s when
you baptize someone without teaching them anything except how cool baptism is,
and with about 5 percent of people they actually continue attending church and
the rest, well they become of future missionaries job to reactivate apparently
ha ha ha,
This week the president of the mission came all
the way out to our little branch in Ojinaga to give a talk and teach priesthood
class. It was cool to see him and all
the members were really excited to see him, at least the ones that came, the
night before a massive cold spell hit Ojinaga and everyone at church was sick
because of it, and most just didn´t come at all. It was really disappointing because of the 60
people in our branch that are active only about 20 came to church that day, so
we basically just got advice on why church attendence is important and how when
he comes back in 5 months the numbers need to at least double in every age
group. That is awesome though, it gives
a goal to achieve. Even though it was
more of a intense talk down for the entire ward, it was still cool to have him
come talk and set apart all the leaders into their positions officially,
because the branch president doesn´t have the keys to set people apart as
presidents of their quorum or as counselors to the president. So as of this moment all of the people are
now officially in their positions, and now the energy is back in the branch!
Well that sums up my week pretty well, I´m going
to make a Skype account and then I´ll send you the details in a bit!
Elder bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
miracles 181
tortillas 620
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