Sunday, October 22, 2017

La Junta Mexico, Week 8

This week was pretty crazy not in terms of work, but in terms of what we did! We road the train! And not just any train, we rode the first class train! Almost all that happened was a mistake, but it was super cool! This week I also had the chance to return to san Juanito to visit the Elders over there and the giant festival ended this week so we are hoping that all the people get back to repenting!

Well this week we decided to go to San Juanito because the elders have been struggling a ton with several issues. Anyways, we decided the day before that we wanted to go on the train because for missionaries that can´t do much, riding trains is super cool! And right now I think we are the only ones that have accomplished getting on (it´s super hard as I’ll explain soon). Anyways we learned that the train left from Cuauhtemoc at 8 am, so the following day we woke up at 6 in the morning, left our house, and hitchhiked to arrive in Cuauhtemoc at around 7.  From there we had to wake up a taxi driver and take a taxi to the center of Cuahtemoc.  When we finally arrived at the station they told us that the only train that was leaving today was the first class train (it´s like an airplane where there is first class and economic only that sometimes that train only leaves with first class) so we decided there was no turning back, so we paid a lot of money and hopped on the train (it was super cool so it´s worth eating ramen all month hahaha).  We spent the entire trip eating in the food cart, and hanging out between the carts.  I took a ton of video but it isn´t easy to send videos through email or I would send them.  It was literally like a ride on a train through Yellowstone, it was amazing! On the way home from the division we took the bus to save a bit of cash hahaha.

Besides that it was just a regular week of work.  We found an investigator of the church of 19 years, who told us that if she can accept Joseph Smith she´ll be baptized.  We taught her an amazing lesson and she should be baptized here in November.  This week will be the last week of the cycle so this next Monday is when we will learn if our little village here gets closed or not.  I hope it doesn´t, but the members here are far too dependent on the missionaries and almost none of them have testimonies for themselves.  So although I don´t want to leave, in the end the village needs the lesson. I´ll probably come back to visit, because this entire zone is amazing in terms of nature, it is a super big tourist place in México, and it would be cool to see a couple of the members here as well hahaha.

Well that about sums up this week, this next week should be the big email hahaha. Have an excellent week.

con amor,

-- 
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión


La Junta 




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