Pues estoy escelente, su español, estoy
seguro es bien fluent ja ja ja. Mexico is a pretty fun place and an awesome
culture as well! Well this week was awesome! We spent most of the time
preparing for the baptism of Itzel, the girl I talked about baptizing when I
was still in Ojinaga 2. Well she finally
got baptized on Saturday and that was super cool to see! Now the next step is
to get the mom to follow in her daughter’s footsteps. We all believe here in Ojinaga that her
baptism will happen very soon as well! The baptism ended up being pretty
unexpected because when the other elders asked her to baptized, and asked her
for a goal date, she told them that Saturday.
They only asked her on thursday... So it ended up being a big struggle
to get everything together, and some of the members are a little mad because of
how sudden it was, and that they couldn´t get time off of work, but all in all
we were able to pull it off and it was a super cool event. Afterwords Hermano Juaquin (the uncle of
Itzel) made us a polsolle out of a pig head.
It was super good and the best part was that I was one of the two lucky
people that got one of the eyeballs. The
eyeball just tasted like jello, but meat flavored. The other parts of the pig
head were pretty good as well, but the eyeball was the most memorable ha ha ha.
This week was one hardworking week for
my companion and me. It turns out his
old companion never taught an actual lesson with him or at least very few. So we worked super hard catching him up to
where he should be. He is doing very well and can now give lessons with only a
little help from me explaining his Spanish to the investigator when he makes
mistakes. The only big problem we are
working on with him is being a little calmer when he talks with people. One fun
example was Wednesday we were talking with an investigator and planning to
slowly start to lean into teaching the word of wisdom. So we were talking for
about 10 minutes and the investigator (Abundio) and I were having a
conversation about his family and his work and then out of nowhere Elder marx
more or less said “you know if you smoke you´re destroying a temple of
god”. I wish I could describe the face
that Abundio gave me the minute that Elder Marx said that ha ha ha. Luckily I
was able to save our relationship with Abundio by explaining a little more, and
then we transitioned back slowly into the word of wisdom. It was a little rough but we pulled it off ha
ha ha.
This week we also had the opportunity to
help an investigator gut some cabritos (goats).
We once again arrived after the part where he actually took them
down. It ended up being quite the
experience because when we first arrived on our bikes we thought that he was
skinning two dogs. It became somewhat
better when we learned they were goats because we eat a lot of goat meat here
ha ha ha. It turns out that being a goat
butcher is his side job. He then took us
to the back to his house where he had about 20 goats to be taken care of the
next day. He then sells them to
restaurants in the states for cheap apparently. He kept asking us if we wanted
to go with him to go pick up some more goats for the next day, or if we wanted
to help skin some more goats. We told
him that instead we were going to teach him the plan of salvation. So that´s what we did while he cleaned the
meat. It was quite the interesting
experience ha ha ha. Afterwards on our way home we passed by a house and a guy
started yelling at us trying to get us to stop.
When we stopped he came up to us and told us that he was a return
missionary and didn´t know that they brought missionaries back to Ojinaga. He
spoke perfect English but had a really weird accent. It turns out he accent was because although
English was his first language, he spoke 8 other languages and apparently
that´ll give you quite an interesting accent.
It turns out I met him the first or second week I was in Delicias when I
began my mission and he recognized me.
He was impressed with how well I can speak the language now, and then he
told us to give him a reference card and he would give us a reference with the
family that he was staying with while he was in Ojinaga. It ended up being a
cool experience, and now we have a new investigator!
And that´s how my week went! See yáll
next week!
Elder Bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
miracles 214
tortillas 773
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