Well this week was great! It snowed a lot! (for chihuahua). We were able to shake hands with Elder Oaks! I also attended a leadership meeting as a zone leader (I've been to 5 when I was secretary haha). All in all it was a great week!
Well one of the best things of this week was that we ended up with about 2 inches of snow on thursday! It was super unexpected for everyone, but at about 11 in the morning the snow started, and all of a sudden the entire zone started calling up freaking out about how they had never seen snow before. Even my companion was super excited because this was the first time for him as well to see snow! In the end we ended up going to the mall with the sister missionaries to get winter clothes, because it got super super cold. So the entire afternoon was dedicated to getting some warm clothes so everyone didn´t "die" in the night. It ended up being super fun, we had a massive snowball fight and finished the night making a snowman in the church parking lot and having hot chocolate with the zone! It was great! although we suffered the next morning due to not having heaters and running out of gas in the perfect moment causing us to bathe in cold water, which is surprisingly refreshing on a cold morning (although i would not recomend it, unless you love an adrenaline rush!)
On Saturday Elder Oaks came! That was quite the amazing experience. He spoke to us over several topics and helped out the mission in some of the aspects we were failing in. It was a super powerful experience and strengthened the testimonies of everyone that was there! It was also the first time and last time that the entire mission would be in one place at a time which was a cool experience to see literally every missionary in the mission in one spot. We got a picture, but it looks like they still haven´t sent it yet haha. On Sunday the apostle spoke to all the members in the state of Chihuahua. They all came down to a huge conference center to hear him speak. He spoke a lot over the need for family home teachers and that every member is a missionary and every missionary a member. super great message from him and his counselors.
Besides that i spent most of my week in leadership meetings to help us prepare our zones for the coming of the apostle and for the housing of all the missionaries coming from far away areas, in the end it was just the regular stuff. However we had some super fun experiences with the missionaries that came down. I was put on divisiones with Elder Gil (my zone leader when I was in la Junta). We ended up getting lost, so we decided to contact people. The first person we contacted was super cool until his drunk friend showed up and pulled a gun on us. We got a little spooked until we realized it was plastic and we just walked off. A little later on we snuck into a gated area and started to contact. My companion felt the need to knock on a house, so we knocked on the door and a strange man answered and in the end didn´t have much interest. We then knocked on the door of another neighbor who opened the door and said "we don´t sell drugs". We talked to them about what they meant by their comment and they told us that they saw us go exactly to a drug lords house (my companion went directly to the house of a man that sold drugs). So the girl talking to us was a little suspicious and in the end we had a fun time joking around about weird luck and to make a long story short it seems like we are best friends now. Weird how the spirit leads one to a drug lords house and then to their neighbor who is super cool! I am now positive that God has a sense of humor, due to this experience and many others hahaha.
Oh and in terms of packages so far i´ve received the package of the calendar and the package full of candy bars. I´m not sure when I´ll get the others because there are only 2 elders in Ojinaga and they don´t come down often and there are a ton of elders in the mission hahaha. In terms of Skype (dang that came fast) I´ll check it out next week and check if everything is working!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Del Norte
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