Hello from the biggest forest in Mexico!
This week was a solid week of work and almost a baptism! The
area I´m in right now has been one of the best areas I´ve been in (I guess that
isn´t to hard since I’ve only been in 3 areas hahaha). The entire Junta (my area) is basically a
massive prairie with a couple of trees spread around. In my district is another area called San
Juanito which is the highest point of elevation in our mission. In this area it is just a small village in
the middle of the forest that looks a whole lot like Yellowstone, if they
didn´t put any big streets in the middle of it.
In this area there is a whole bunch of waterfalls and animals like bears
and pumas and things like that, cool stuff. This week I had the opportunity to
visit this area and it was awesome! I´ll explain a bit later in this email what
i did over there. In the Junta, I’m companions with Elder Merino a goofy elder
from Peru who really really likes cats (it´s a little weird how much he likes
them hahaha) he´s super cool and works super hard! Our house here in la Junta
is massive only problem is that every time it rains the water enters the house
and soaks certain parts, bigger problem... It rains every day hahaha. It is
alright though we´ve been fixing it up a lot with duct tape and super glue! I´m
hoping it is going to start getting cold soon and especially when it starts
snowing, I´m hoping that I’ll still be here!
Alright onto the week, well this week we have been focusing
a lot on putting down baptism dates because here in la junta the people are
super humble and almost all of them accept us.
That doesn´t mean that they are willing to act on our message, so in
order to find who were our strong investigators we put baptism dates with all
the ones that were there ready. In the
end we found out which investigators are going to be baptized this month and
the next and which ones we are going to be left for missionaries in the future.
On Thursdaym, the Elders from San Juanito called me and told me that i needed
to come down the next morning because they had an investigator that was going
to be baptized Sunday, so the next day I hopped on the bus and headed over to
San Juanito. It was super cool and I got
to meet a lot of the members. That night we went with the guy that was
going to get baptized. The only problem
was that the missionaries hadn´t told him he was going to be baptized so he had
to think about it. So we made an
appointment for the next day and sent one of the elders of San Juanito back
with my companion in La Junta to help my investigators over there. Meanwhile
Elder Hernandez (the Elder who stayed in San Juanito) and I went back with the investigator
(Omar) who was going to be baptized. He
told us that his answer was that he would like to be baptized but he couldn´t
because he hadn´t repented completely, and he wanted to tell us what he had
done but couldn´t because his family was there (he didn´t tell us that part but
it was pretty easy to see/feel). So in the end we couldn´t do much especially
when we leaned that he drank coffee and wasn´t married. In the end I had to talk to the Elders of
this area to explain to them the requirements to be baptized and that they need
to first teach the investigator before baptism hahaha. The next day was Sunday
and the special thing in San Juanito is that the Elders are the First and
Second counselors to the Branch President due to there only being two active
brothers (and the one that isn´t president has an unpredictable schedule) in
the entire branch and 40 more or less active sisters. In the end only 11
members showed up and the branch president brought a frosted doughnut for the
sacrament (the kids sure loved that hahaha). it was an interesting but cool experience, the
missionaries have a lot of work to do hahaha. In the end I didn´t get to see
Bears while in San juanito and we didn´t get to visit the waterfalls because
the Narcos take you out pretty fast. But I’ll try to check it out on my next
visit in a couple weeks haha.
Have an excellent week, con mucho amor
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Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
La Junta
Oh and about my release date,
no one really knows what we are going to do, due to changing my initial
departure date, the system got pretty messed up and my release date is super
weird and drops me off in the middle of 2 cycles so we aren´t really sure how we
are going to pull it off quite yet, so I guess we shall see with time. Oh and
big news!!!! My first baptism in the mission just put in his mission papers to
go serve his own mission!!! Super cool to be part of sending other missionaries
off!!!
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