week 89 Tuesday P-day

Hey so... WELL. It's been a good week! Sorry I didn't write yesterday, we had a conference, and I couldn't let you guys know because they announced the conference Tuesday last week, haha. 

HM. I guess I'll share a cool experience.

The sisters in our ward had a baptism. It was actually way more complicated than it should have been. The investigator had only come to church twice and never stayed the 3 hours and the members didn't even know he existed so no one wanted him to be baptized as they felt he would inactivate, but some said he should and some no, and so there was a small fight? ish in ward council meeting but whatever, it worked out.

So on Wednesday we were on divisions with Elder Horning and Elder Yagual in our area, the 21 de Octubre. In the afternoon it had began to rain really hard, but we had committed ourselves, Elder Cuevas and I, to have 4 new investigators that day. And so I decided that instead of finding shelter with nearby members, that we had to keep contacting. At the exact same moment, my companion, without communication between the two of us, had made the same decision. We both enterred two different homes at the same time. It turns out that they are best friends and that one of them is the sister of a sister in the ward, and her mom is a member, and her niece and nephew are returned missionaries. We have continued teaching them and actually have a big family home evening with them tomorrow!

Also this week we painted a sister's home.

ALSO yeah, I don't want to bore you guys with details so I guess that's all the interesting stuff.

This pic is from when we taught seminary, don't know if I already sent it.

week 88: El Que No Vive Para Servir, No Sirve Para Vivir.

Semana Santa is over and literally NO ONE opened up to us... That's an exaggeration, but we literally only had 2 new investigators this week. Which is incredibly few. And one of them was super flirty 30 year old single mom, so she probably doesn't have a real interest in learning about the gospel.

Well! That's pretty much it. We just contacted pretty much the whole week. Nothing new really. I love you guys I guess and hope everything is going super well back at home!

Today I received my paperwork to fill out to go home, and also the instructions in writing my final report. I guess the mission secretaries are trying to make me baggy.

Tooks some pics this morning for you guys to make up for lack of letter. 

My companion is made out of rubber.

ALSO WE WENT TO DENNYS and they made me take the selfie. 

week 87 semana santa

​This week is Semana Santa, which is translated as Holy Week. Which is ironic, because in the States, it´s just called Spring Break, which we all know is straight perdition. BUT cool. It is weird because it makes missionary life harder and easier. Harder cause a lot of people will leave the city to go on vacations, but easier cause the people that don´t leave will be home all day with their families and some people go to the city on vacation. SO we´ll see and I´ll be the judge. Last year I was in an area on the beach, and so... well I couldn´t do ANYTHING. so... this will be better.

I don´t really have much to write today. Today there are changes. But Elder Cuevas and I are staying together.

Today we played baseball...

Cleaned the house some more... We´ve taken out 17 black garbage bags full.

SO. That´s life :-)

Have a great week, enjoy the pics.

week 86: KAHN-fer-ents

So this week was conference! I won´t talk about it much, because to be 100% honest, I don´t remember that much because I didn´t bring my notebook. (Which just goes to show that if you watch General Conference without taking notes and setting goals, you aren´t really doing much TBH.) I really enjoyed Christoffersen´s, Elder Costa´s, and Elder Choi´s talk.

So I just looked in my comp´s screen, and he´s typing his big email in all caps. Wonder why he´s so mad. Maybe it´s cause our current Battleship record is 7-1 what up equipo gringo.

So my new comp is super dope. He is super hard working AND we get along great. Which is killer.

Just going to talk about my conference experience. SO Saturday we walked from our area to the stake center and back which was SO FAR. But for lunch we hit up Denny´s and I bought a Bourbon Bacon Burger which was probably the best thing I´ve eaten my whole mission. (probably not but let´s say that it is.) And then on Sunday we did the SAME THING. So I´m completely sun burnt. And we went in suits cause we are idiots and so I was sweating like a pig.

Our investigator pool is actually kind of big right now, so the agendas they give us are kind of a huge blessing right now to keep everything organized, (and to be able to remember people´s names.)

I, as of Saturday, had 138 days left. Today I have 136. I did not count, I was told by a missionary and good friend in my group. As a joke he invited me to read one section of Doctrine and Covenants a day until I go home, and by the time I get home, I would have read the entire thing. SO if you want you can catch up today and start by ready 138-136 and then once a day. It´s just kind of a silly thing we do in this mission as a tradition. 

The work is going swimmingly.

Love you guys. Hope you enjoy a few pics

Pics from the Conf. And a really sweaty pic from playing Soccer up in the Picacho (the mountain.) and a pic with some other missionaries that they just sent me. But I didn´t realize they were taking the picture. :/