well this week was pretty good, and pretty eventful
first of all we got another companionship in our district,
which is good because the zone leaders have to leave a lot and so at least we
will have somebody else there. but this week in addition to them we had a
combined district meeting with another district, and president and his wife
came and visited us too, so there was lots of people there... that probably doesn’t
actually mean anything to you guys... but it was interesting nonetheless.
after that it was pretty normal, until friday. friday we had
to travel to go give a baptismal interview in a little pueblo called c.
the interview went all right, but afterwards the third best thing of my week
happened... i found a store that sells A&W root beer! i was so happy i
bought everybody a free round, and two for me. now i know where to buy it, i
just have to take an hour long bus ride to find it.
that night was pretty interesting too, they came back with us and we had a sleep over, which is ironically named because
sleep overs usually involve very little sleeping, ours involved none. we
actually have to be prepared to travel again at 1:00 am at the
church, so with four missionaries, and no gas, we stayed up all night getting
ready (and also drinking root beer)
you are probably wondering why we had to travel at 1:00 in
the morning (or maybe you aren’t wondering that because you read my letters)
but anyways, it’s because for the second time in less than a year we had an
apostle come to visit us. Elder Renlund, accompanied by bishop cause, presiding
bishop of the church, held a devotional specifically for our mission, but he
held it in the area of another mission (he didn’t even speak to them).
it was really cool, we learned a lot about real conversion,
and a lot about how to help our investigators, but that would probably be
boring to you, so I’ll just share something that i learned about praying with
real intent. we basically shouldn’t pray that god does our work for us. we
should pray so that we can receive guidance and strength to do our
responsibility and our part in receiving the blessings we are asking for (see
David A. Bednars 2008 General Conference talk ask in faith)
coming back from the conference was interesting because our
bus broke down so we sat around for like 2 hours waiting, but we made it back
in time for interesting thing number 3, baptism.
we had a lesson sunday with an investigator who has a long
time investigating, but he finally committed to baptism, so we had a baptismal
service saturday. we weren’t there most of saturday to organize everything and
we couldn’t announce it sunday, but we worked hard during the week and
managed to have a lot of people there.
ironically, sunday a lot of people weren’t there
for the confirmation, mostly he wasn’t there. his mom was hospitalized in
zacatecas early that morning, so he had to go, but next week well make sure that
it happens.
other than that i had a food adventure on sunday, we
went to visit a less active and she had made a soup with rat and snake... so we
ate it! rat tastes like chicken and rattlesnake tastes kinda like fish... only
more poisonous (but the poison is boiled out, it’s not fatal, obviously...
nacho libre style high five to whoever gets that reference) oh and the rat is field
rat, not house rat, don’t worry about it, i would never eat anything gross. oh
and also i found a place that sells cow brain tacos, so i might eat them this
week.
well that’s... a lot. love you guys, be good,
peace
