This week was a pretty hard worked week
of contacting. Previously no one dared
knocking on doors here in Ojinaga, but the Mission President told me to go for
it and report to him how it goes. So that is how we spent a large portion of
this week. We would start on a block and knock every single door during the
lunch hours. Lunch hour gave us the
advantage of finding a large portion of people in their houses. They weren´t quite as happy as we were, but
the cool thing about Mexicans is that they won´t tell you no. So most of them say that they are really
busy, so we make them not so busy by having them basically tell us their
schedules. Then we teach them a lesson
on their open days. The cool investigators
we keep teaching and the rest we write down in a book for future missionaries
to check on. So that part of the week went really well, unfortunately all the
cool investigators that we already had either weren´t home or were found in inconvenient
circumstances to teach. Our plan was to schedule 7 baptisms dates this week, but
every single one fell through due to many reasons. For example, by their parents not being home,
or the father in law coming over as an alcoholic, or the pastors of their
church coming in the house in the middle of a lesson and telling our investigators
that they can´t listen to us anymore. So that was a little hard this week, but
we´re going to try even harder this next week, and we are going to get those
dates in!
As I ended off last week, we spent the
first part of this week in Chihuahua, where we had zone meeting and talked a
lot about the meeting with the president from 2 weeks ago. We basically ended up talking about how to
better contact and not having fear to contact people. Otherwise the sin of passing them without a
contact falls on us because they now don´t have the chance to repent... So
after all that, we were all pretty motivated to work super hard (hence the
knocking on a ton of doors during lunch). Anyways, after that we went to a
place called freaky plaza which is basically a mall for geeks, filled with
electronics, a ton of anime, and a large collection of types of rubiks cubes.
There I bought a new cube called a megaminx that my companion has but hasn´t
been able to solve it for 3 months.
Yesterday I figured it out and solved it. It turns out when you are walking from house
to house not teaching lessons you find a lot of time to try to figure out ways
to solve a puzzle. My companion is begging me to teach him. I´ve been thoroughly taking advantage of the
situation, as I slowly give him hints hahaha. In Chihuahua we also ate rice
balls, which is a tradition here in Ojinaga.
When you go to Chihuahua you go to the rice ball restaurants and order a
rice ball and eat it in the bus to Ojinaga. They are pretty good and pretty
feeling depending on what type you get. I usually get one called “carne de
pastor”, which is a special type of meat style here in Ojinaga that is way
good, and usually made with sheep meat.
This week we tried to make my hair into
the hair of a greaser after watching a Mormon movie that was based on a play (way
old movie, pretty common but I can´t remember the name) anyways we cut the
sides of my head (mission appropriate of course) and then we tried to get my
hair to stick straight back, it didn´t work well and we ended using about half
a bottle of gel in the process. We are
trying to get permission to use shoe grease to do it. So far the zone leaders haven´t been too
supportive, but they are thinking of letting me do it on a p-day and I can´t
leave the house till I clean it all out. Now all I have to do is grow my hair
out on top a little more ha ha ha ha. I´ll keep you updated on the progress
through these next 3 weeks, before I get moved from Ojinaga haha.
See ya next week
Elder Bunch
Ojinaga, Chihuahua
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