Hola del desierto de Chihuahua!
I´m super excited about the package! I
wish I was still in Ojinaga so I could get my package sooner haha. The socks to give my companions will be
awesome as well! My companion is pretty excited but a little worried after
seeing some of the socks I have hahaha. Hopefully my package comes soon, but
who knows because right now Ojinaga is going on strike a bit because the zone
leaders have been getting angry with them for not working. So the last time they came down they didn´t
bring any packages as part of their strike, so hopefully they work things out
and they bring the packages haha.
Well this week was quite the busy
week. We spent this week helping out
with 3 different zone conferences where we had to help prepare the food for the
missionaries that had their conferences. Then at the end of the week we had to
help with the mass baptism that our zone leaders planned, so all in all it was
a pretty busy week on our end. We only
had one day to actually do some work, and we only had from 7:00-9:00 in the
night to actually work in our area, because all these wacky times we have been
working a lot with the ward. During the conferences we received new instruction
that we as missionaries shouldn´t do all the mission work alone, and in fact
that we should leave a large part of it to the members of the church and that
we should just be helpers along the way or to be a more thorough teacher for an
investigator. So we´ve been trying to work hard in this regard in helping the
members realize their responsibility so talk to their neighbors that aren´t
members and to set up appointments with us to teach them together. The new
focus has been put in place because they lowered the required assistances in
the church to be baptized, and because of this they have fear that when people
are baptized they won´t be fully converted to the church, but by involving the
members the new converts will have friends in the church and have a better
attachment to the church helping them become stronger converts. I´m pretty
excited about the new focus in our work, right now it´s a bit rough because a
lot of the members are a bit afraid to contact their friends, and are trying to
keep the responsibility to contact people with the missionaries. But the stake
presidents now have been trained and they are now training the bishops, and the
bishops to the ward leaders, and the ward leaders to the ward, etc. It should
be sweet if everything goes well!
Anyways this week Hermana Montoya was
out of town at the wedding of her son, and she is the one that usually prepares
and cooks the food. We as secretaries
just serve the food and help her lift all the food in the kitchen (it´s a ton
of food!). With her not being here this
week we had the responsibility to prepare and cook and serve the food, it was
crazy, but fun. On Tuesday we had the conference of Chuviscar and Chimex (my
conference), we ended up serving chicken bakes from Costco, and a sister from
the ward literally brought 100 pounds of macaroni salad (we probably ate about
30 pounds (40 missionaries)). We still have about 50 pounds of macaroni salad
in the freezer after giving 20 pounds to homeless guys on the street hahaha.
The best part was finding where all the missionaries hid their macaroni
salad. We tried serving about a pound of
salad per missionary, but in the end the missionaries found an assortment of
places to hide their salad. I wouldn´t
be surprised if we haven´t found all of it yet hahaha. And that is how the
first conference went. In the second conference we went to the 2 stakes of Technologico. In this conference we made bacon wrapped
hotdogs with homemade hot dog buns. It
was pretty darn good. Everyone kept
coming until we were left with 4 hotdogs out of 104 for a conference that only
had like 30 missionaries. So the second
meal was a hit and very little food was left behind, except for a bit of salad
we tried to trick the missionaries into eating that was left over from the
first conference…It didn´t work haha. And that is how the second conference
went, the third conference was unexpected in the regard that we weren´t
initially invited. It was the zone of Parral
which is about 3 hours from Chihuahua City, and we as secretaries almost always
only help with the zones that are within the city. So Thursday night we got a
call from the president of the mission more or less saying that he nor the
assistants had a desire to serve the food, and if we could help serve the food
while they teach the conference. We were both pretty excited because that never
happens so we got the chance to wake up at 4:00 the next day and go in the
president´s minivan on a 3 hour trek to Parral. In Parral a group of sisters up
there prepared all the food and all we had to do was divide it and serve it. So
it was pretty easy and we spent a lot of our time listening to the conference
for a change haha. It was pretty cool and I got to talk to a few of my friends
that I’ve made through the months!
Then on Saturday we had our “massive”
baptism. It was originally planned to
have like 12 baptisms but in the end we only had 6, 2 in my district, and 4 in
another district. So although it wasn´t super big, it did end up being a
success and it gave a lot of missionaries a firm date to put down for their investigators.
Which helped our zone a lot in terms of helping the missionaries put baptism
dates.
And that was our week here in the
offices!
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Con mucho amor,
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Secretario Ejecutivo
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