I honestly feel like when i lived back in Utah, there were a lot less injuries than what has happened over these past 18 months. I missed some very exciting months recently hahaha. I guess we shall see how the luck continues when I get back there in 5 months. It sounds like the whole Charlie incident was pretty intense, well it is always good to get a fun new experience to wake us up at times, that is what life is all about haha. Anyways this week was a week full of contacts, splits, and a couple baptisms!
Well everything started on Wednesday when I went on splits with Elder Salgado. I went to his area to help him pull out some baptisms to his area. In the end almost all the appointments that were planned fell through, but luckily the one appointment that was super important stayed intact. It was moved to 9, (we enter the house at 9) but this was a super important appointment so we accepted it and we went. It was quite the interesting experience because this investigator is the pastor of a semi-large Christian church, only that now he has seen the errors in his teaching and the teaching of other churches. After attending our church he felt and saw the truth restored and decided he wanted to be baptized. The only problem is that he wants God to give him a sign. So that's where my part came into play, basically we went and showed him with scriptures that he is ready, and well to make a very long semi bible bash short, he is going to be baptized! It's a great experience when one can teach with the spirit enough to convince a Christian pastor of 30 years to be baptized! These are the moments in the mission when one notices that the church is backed up by angels that are preparing everyone to be baptized. Anyways on Thursday we finished our splits and started a new pair of splits. I went with E. Lignell a white elder I’ve mentioned in a few of my letters (I think, I don't really remember). Anyways he and his companion were having problems so we had to interview the two of them and see what was going on. In the end, it was small things that built up into a disaster for example; a disorganized desk and bed, one didn't know how to mop a floor, and one took 3 pieces of ham from the other... yep small things are often the reason we can't feel the spirit and have bad relations with friends, family members, and here in the mission our companions! Anyways we talked with the two of them and helping them to give service to one another, because until that moment the most service that had been given was one egg for that last 9 weeks. Just serve people it isn’t that hard hahaha. Anyways we did splits with the both of them and talked to them about how we can all get better! Afterword we had our weekly massive contacting activity. I ended up going with E. Mendoza we had some interesting luck, we found a Jehovah Witness pastor, a Catholic leader, and Christian prayer circle, and a pair of Jehovah witness missionaries teaching a family. I guess it was just the day to preach! It was alright though because the Jehovah witness pastor gave me a book to teach me "what the bible truly means" I gave him a pamphlet. Trade is good haha.
On Saturday, we spent the entire morning helping the sister missionaries in their area, then after the lunch, the Elders from cumbres (an area in our zone) called us and told us that they didn't have baptism clothes for a baptism they were going to have in 2 hours, so we had to run everywhere to get clothes, and we made it 30 minutes before that baptism started! In the end, it didn't matter too much because the bishop arrived 30 minutes late, so we basically arrived a hour early! Gotta love Mormon time! Anyways I played the piano and taught some kids how to play some basic hymns to keep them distracted from running around in the church, and I think I got contracted to teach piano lessons from their mother hahaha, too bad it is not my area. Anyways everything went well and they baptized two children! Our zone is famous for baptized children right now, but like Christ said, the children will inherit the kingdom of god, so we go for whatever we can get! (their parents are members, don't worry, we don't baptize random children in the streets...yet...).
On can't forget, today we played paintball! we combined two zones and we played zone against zone! there is nothing quite like getting a nice paintball bruise to show the young women in the ward... but hey one has got to have a couple reasons to return back to their mission, nah just messing. And even if I wanted to, I didn't get bruised this time, the hard life of the Mexican paintball sniper bunch.
Well that was our more or less interesting week, I want to give a shout out to all those secretaries and assistants of the mission Mexico Chihuahua that I recently learned read my blog every week!
You guys are the best!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Del Norte
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