Elder Kaden Bunch: Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Week 17

Hey sorry for not emailing yesterday, we got caught in Chihuahua for the day, and we decided to return the same day so we could work today. So the president gave us permission to write today. It was pretty funny today, mainly because we had just sat down to eat lunch when the wife of the mission president called me and said, more or less, that I had to get to the server at that moment because my parents had just called and said I hadn´t written. I tried to explain what happened yesterday but she then switched to broken english and chewed me out pretty good and very loudly to the point where all the other Elders were dying laughing. Well here we are and now you know that your phone calls do work. I learned that the president´s wife is more scary than the president when she is trying to make a point ha ha ha.

Anyway this week was cool, hard, and stressful. It was stressful because of certain events that happened in our district, which ended in a lot of lost trust and interviews with the president (yesterday). Basically this week I went on splits with the district leader because he trusted me to help him deal with the problem that arose. So we spent about about half of the week deciding on how to handle the situation, and after yesterday everything is back to normal. We are building up trust again. So it all ended up well in the end. Now onto the bad part of this week, our next baptism candidate now lives in Arizona. We were going to baptize him and his daughter but we went to their house on Tuesday and were told that he was now living in arizona. We are also teaching one of his closest friends so we went with him afterwords and asked what happened. To make a very long story short, he got upset and left to arizona to get a job and be with his parents. So that was a little difficult because he had been receiving missionaries for about 3 years and we finally had a baptism date. Plus, since I´m leaving in 2 weeks I´m probably not going to be here when he finally decides to return to mexico. So now i´m making my companion promise to keep me updated so I can assist in the baptism when he gets back! Alright now onto the good news which involves the friend that helped us with the previous situation. Anyway, we learned that he had been lying to us when he said that he only believes in saints. It turns out he doesn´t believe in anything. This was a very good situation because now we are teaching him from scratch rather than breaking down a previous foundation to rebuild him again. Our lessons involve teaching him about the bible and Christ, both of which he had never read or knew much about. Anyways Saturday we were teaching him and of course Saturday is the day to invite people to church, so we invited him. Unfortunately he told us that he couldn´t, but that we could pass by and pick up his kids. Then both of his kids got really excited to come (we´re pretty good friends) and to make a long story short, they came with us to church. Unfortunately at church I took the older kid to the class with the deacons and left to talk with the other elders. We decided to go and sit with him after this and good thing we did because when we entered the class one of the deacons was relentlessly bullying our investigator due to the fact that he didn´t know anything about God or the bible (like his father). Anyways the teacher let us take over the lesson, and I got right up and chewed the deacon out in front of all his friends about what the church really is about. I gained quite a bit of respect from the members of the ward because no one had called this deacon out, no matter how misbehaved he was. The last thing I heard was that the deacon had a firm talking to by his mom. But now all the youth classes know what their role is if we bring an investigator to their class. So it was a good teaching opportunity for us, and the youth investigator now thinks I´m even cooler because I stood up for him over members (according to him). Cool experience.

This week I once again had the oportunity to cut some hair. This time I had no help from Elder Brindis for the actual cut (he helped a bit last time). Anyway to make a long story short my companion is the most gangster looking missionary in the mission right now. His hair line got shaved high in his last hair cut and I shaved it high again, but on both sides trying to make it even. Now he looks like he has a folded over mohawk. Fortunately he thinks it is more funny that anything, along with the other missionaries. The day he got it he went to the grocery store and the local police man told him it looked cool and asked what hair salon he got it at. I´m thinking of starting a business to fund my collection of rubiks puzzles ha ha ha ha.

Oh and I finally got the box with all the easter stuff and my shoe soles! As you can see from the picture that was a very nice gift to get, although I´ll miss all those blisters I used to get and how calysed my feet are now because of them. But I guess that is what happens when you have to walk in an area that is meant for bikes. Everyday is spent walking several kilometers to reach all the investigators. So thanks for the package, it was awesome! and for the cadbury eggs, my district and I were craving them since that last time we got some here. So that was great!

Anyways that´s what went down this week!