Well I´ll think of those questions and then send
an answer after a bit of planning. In
terms of a “bump” package, maybe some cosmic brownies, or zebra cakes, and a
good speaker that has a USB slot for my USB because playing them from a disc
player is fun but the battery only lasts about 30 minutes, and when the entire
district wants to play basketball in the night with music, it doesn´t end up to
well ha ha ha.
Well this was a pretty fun week mainly because we
had a bunch of success in terms of finding people to teach. It has been hard to
find a lot of the old investigators of the past missionaries because they
usually wouldn´t put the addresses down.
This makes sense because it is really hard to find the address anyway because
most of the streets aren´t marked. So
we have been working hard to find these hidden people who were previously
interested in the gospel. What has been the
fun part of this experience is we often don´t find the original people, but
instead we find new people that we otherwise wouldn´t have ever found. One experience like this was we were looking
for one of the oldies from 2012 and it led us to this one house where a guy was
building a wall. We asked him if the information
on our paper was the correct family and unfortunately it wasn´t. But he hopped off of the wall and started
talking to us very openly (that is not very normal), he soon told us that he
had been visited by missionaries in the past but that he scared them off by all
his questions. Lucky for me that book
you sent me about questions and answers that are anti Mormon, got me the
answers I needed such as 'where is josé (Joseph) Smith in the bible' and 'why
can you guys teach in the street without authority'. He was impressed that I
knew that answers with the short time that I have in mission. He then proceeded to invite us to his house
and told us that he has been a Jehova Witness for 20 years and in reality he
just wanted to learn about us and in turn he wanted to teach us his beliefs. I
am pretty excited about it all mainly because I want to learn all about the
beliefs of the Jehova Witnesses and how to answer all of their questions,
because quite frankly, they are the most annoying people to handle in the streets
normally ha ha ha ha. So to find one
that is actually cool and doesn´t want to fight with us is a little miracle in
itself.
Also this week we had the missionary counsel,
which basically changed everything about the missionary schedule. Now the schedule is all about the companionship. Each companionship can leave earlier and return
earlier, if they don´t want to study for an hour, they can study for less or
more time depending on what their needs are. This is major change especially
here in Ojinaga where all the people are in the steets in the morning rather
than the night. So the ability to do our
studies in the night is a major game changer at least for a guy that spends an
extra 2 hours every day training another missionary in a program and in the
language. I´m looking forward to trying out different combinations of schedules
and seeing which is the best for our area. The other part that was changed is
how we count the stats. Before it was
based on lessons and teaching them, now the big focus is on finding new people
and getting them to the church and then the members have the responsibility to
fellowship the investigators. The cool part about this new strategy is that it gives
us the opportunity to come up with creative methods to invite people, because
now that lessons aren´t too important in terms of what we are looking for. We now focus on inviting new people through
activities, like drawing the plan of salvation in chalk on the street or on a
wall, kinda like graffiti, but it´s legal in Mexico ha ha ha. All in all, I´m pretty excited about what we
can now start to pull off with the new focus for all missionaries.
This week I also got in major trouble with one of
my past in investigators (Juaquin) because I´ve started to get thin again. So now he has made it his responsibility to
feed me a ton of food whenever we aren´t super busy. I ain´t complaining because he is a pro chef and
wants to make you food that usually involves seafood; it is a pretty good time.
Unfortunately, he likes to use mayo in most of his dishes just to mess with me,
but otherwise it is some pretty good food that he usually makes. Today we had a tuna dish that probably made
me gain a kilo ha ha ha. Guess I´ll just have to pedal harder to burn it all
off with all the new investigators we´ve got to visit this next week.
Well that´s what happened here in Ojinaga, I´ll
think about the questions and get back to ya!
See ya all next week,
Elder Bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
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