Well I´ve got around 20 minutes to write today. We have spent about 2 hours trying to find a computer lab but they are all closed for the Mexican holiday that is a lot like the 4th of July. So my letter might be a little shorter today haha. This week was a pretty good week, I made some awesome pumpkin cookies and some great popcorn balls for a family home evening with investigators and we are teaching two different gangs here! It´s great!
Well this week started on Monday when I was looking through a previous package and found the pumpkin cookies. I decided to make a cool lesson out of it for the district meeting, the only problem was that the package required a can of pumpkin... We don´t eat pumpkin pie here or pumpkin cookies, and when nobody here ever cooks with pumpkin it makes it extremely painful to find a can of pumpkin. We ended up spending all of Monday looking and we didn´t find anything. Then on Tuesday we said a prayer to find a can of pumpkin and we were led to a random isle in Walmart (all the workers swore that they had never seen pumpkin in the store) and in the very back of a shelf with only 3 cans left, we found a darn can of pumpkin haha. And better yet the cookies turned out awesome even after all the Latinos told me I was crazy to cook with pumpkin haha.
On Friday we decided to teach alma 32 to a family of 7. The only problem is that 3 of them are super young and the majority of lessons we have with them the kids just sleep. I decided to mix it up a bit and convinced my companion to help me out. So we taught a lesson about the seed of faith (popcorn seed) and what happens if it grows (or in our case when you cook it in hot oil, basically the same haha), and then in the end how does the fruit of the gospel taste. It turned out to be a great lesson. And although they didn´t have the opportunity to attend the church this week, the next week they are coming! I´ve started to realize more and more that if you want to teach someone something, you´ve got to find a way to incorporate food into the lesson, especially when you have a companion that can teach for a hour solo haha.
Throughout this week we have dedicated ourselves to talk with literally everyone including the "gangsters" I say gangsters because they are groups of youth that have dedicated themselves to smoking marijuana and breaking minor laws, and most of all because they call themselves gangsters. Anyways every day at about 800 we head over to local parks and teach groups of about 5 to 30 youth, we play a quick game of basketball with them or soccer and then once we are buddies we teach them a lesson about how they can change their lives. We have had a lot of success, many of the youth that we teach make fun of us, but there are always 1 or 2 that come up to us afterwards and ask if we can visit them in their house. Some of our strongest investigators. are some of these youth, all we need now is that they convince their friends to come to church as well! It´s been pretty fun though!
Well that´s all the time I’ve got hahah. Have an awesome week, I´m pretty sure I’m 34x34 in pant size, or maybe the same, all my pants still fit and are more or less loose haha
con mucho amor,
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Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Panamericano
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