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Monday, July 30, 2018
Some Stories
So it has been like 3 weeks since I have written a really good letter to my house, so I guess I will just kind of talk about the last 3 weeks in this letter. It has been a lot haha. I feel like Moses in the Bible in Numbers 11Ñ14 and almost got into verse 15 too haha. There are a ton of people, and just not many of them are really wanting to progress. So yeah, also I am still single momming this, but it is almost over. In one week we have transfers and then something will change and we will see if it makes things better or breaks everything to pieces. So the last couple weeks, we were working with a guy named Luis. He is 25 and he used to do a lot of drugs. He went to church twice and seemed reeceptive and then he stopped going to church and starting going to a different one. Turns out that he only went those two timese because his grandpa made him, and he really did not want to visit with us or read the Book of Mormon. He was happy in this other church I guess. So yeah that did not work out. Also the mission office gave us a survey to use during contacts. I guess the inspired guys in the office thought it would work. I did not really believe in it when they gave it to us to be honest, but since then I have tried it and it changed my mind. Two people just let us in their houses to do the survey and the rest of them are a lot more receptive to talking to us when we use it. So, it is a classic I was wrong and they were right type of story. Other stories, one of the days we had divisions with the Zone Leaders. They are cool dudes, but we had been playing darts a lot in our pension, and some people are not very good at darts, so there might have been holes in the wall of our apartment. Because of that, I bought some white paint to try and not have holes in the walls. It would have worked great, but after I finished painting we discovered that it was a slightly different color of white. So once I realized that, we just covered the wall in pictures from magazines of prophets. I am so grateful for modern day prophets. Then no one knew about the things, so it all went well. Case closed. Other story, pesos are monopoly money in value and in appearance. Other story, my comp had pink eye. That was when I truly learned that money rules the world. We went to the clinic after I made him call all the people and clinics to see where we needed to go. We got there and waited a little. Then a nice lady tended to us. My comp did not bring his passport or anything, so when she asked us for that I had to be an adult and work completely around needing any legal documents. Miracles exist. Then we finally got in the doctor office and it took literally 30 seconds. He poked the eye, looked at it in a big machine and wrote a paper for us to take to a pharmacy and buy eye drops. $300 down the drain. Oh well, it is monopoly money. We had interviews with President in our apartments as well. That was interesting. I was stressed out. It ended up being ok though, he just came to the apartment with the office missionaries, told us how broken everything we own is, and then told the office missionaries to write down buying tons of new things for here. They also gave us a trash can and a bucket. How generous. Then we had one on ones with presi. That was ok. He apparently thought I am doing a really good job with all the things, which is not what I think, but whatever. He also thought I was really excited about the mission. Haha 0 for 2 presi. It is all good though. Well the only good news is that one of our investigators just got everything done to be able to get married. The only bad thing is that the date he got from the government is in September. I definitely will not be here for that haha. Dang it. Oh well. The important thing is that he will be able to get baptized. Yeah. So that is how this has been going. The other people we teach have not arrived to the church yet, so that is a bummer. Other than that it is just work work work talk talk talk work work walk walk walk walk work work sleep work work eat eat eat. And that is mission.
Monday, July 23, 2018
Another Week
Well this week was another one. Here is a video of our Saturday. The rest of the week was ok. Not much happened. Pretty much nothing. So yup, Talk to you guys next week.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Lettery Time
Well hey everybody and other random blog stalkers. This week was another week. It had its ups and downs. It sure had lots of downs haha. It is ok though. Sometimes life is just like that. Yup, so we had a zone conference with president, and it was just like, math math math, numbers numbers, math math. Then we also learned some important stuff I guess. So yeah, that is kind of the direction that the mission is going. It has become a lot about numbers all of a sudden, and I guess in part that is good, but it kind of takes the spiritual part out ofb it for me, but I guess the people who need to get found will get found, and then a bunch of other people too. That and all of the stress of things has really been wearing me down. Training is a lot because I basically have to do everything, pretty much all the talking and teaching and stuff and if anything goes wrong or there are any problems it is my fault. That is the not fun part. Luckily this week I got to do divisions with the zone leaders, so I got to have one day with another missionary that knows what they are doing. That was really nice. It is nice to be a missionary and have to only worry about missionary things. It does not always happen like that. But yeah, that is good. I will finish training in like 3 weeks, so we will see what becomes of me after that. It is good though. We are teaching a lot of people, but there is not a whole ton of visible progress. We had 0 people in church this week, so that was a bummer. So yeah, that is about what is going on in my life. Lots of stress things. We will be seeing how it goes I guess haha.
Monday, July 9, 2018
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Back at it With the Whitewashing
Well we are basically back to the drawing board after that last baptism. Our area is now twice as big and we are the only two missionaries for our ward that used to be two wards. That means that I am half the time doing the area we had before, and the other half of the time I am blanking this other area, all the while training a new missionary. He speaks pretty well, it is just a lot to handle. Presidente also decided that he wants to keep both the apartments that we have, so guess who gets to be in charge of two apartments now? Woowee. Last week we had Norma's baptism which was awesome because she always used to tell Campbell and me that she would never get baptized, but then she ended up getting baptized after all. The only tough thing is that she was basically the only investigator that we had that was really progressing. That means that now we are basically just looking for new people, which happens to be the longest part of the mission haha. Also last week we had to help a lot with the changes in the mission. 20 missionaries finished, and I think like 6 new missionaries got here. We could really use another age drop out here
President
Nelson haha. Also last week, Pday was on tuesday, which I am sure you have all figured out by now. I guess on Monday, all of the bus drivers just did not go to work, and it was transfer week, so
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changed Pday. It ended up being possibly the best Pday of the mission though, because we had to be in the terminal for most of the day, but when we were not there, we were 10 minutes away watching Argentina work magic against Nigeria on an insanely large TV in a park. Probably the best Pday I will ever have. Well as for investigators now, we had a couple other people that we were teaching, but it is apparently really hard to go to church when it is cold. Funny how that works. Also Argentina lost the World Cup game this week, so some people definitely were not at church because of that. I guess the most frustrating thing about the mission is having all these people tell you every week that they are going to go to church and then they just do not go. It would be better if they just said no haha. It has been a pretty stressful time haha. The other elders really did not have that much going for them in their area. They had one guy named Luis, but he kinda smokes and goes to lots of other churches, so we will see what happens with him. We really just need to find more people. I guess we will just be talking a lot more. Also the hard part of the mission now would definitely be staying motivated. It would be a lot easier if any part of the mission made sense, but there is not really a single part of it that is constant or that makes sense. That is just how it goes I guess.
Supongo que ahora debo escribir alguito en espanol. Bueno, estoy aprendiendo mucho de como hacer todas las cosas y come tener aful de estres todos los dias jajaja. Pero en verdad, la mision es un buen tiempo de cambio y de ayudar otras personas. Realmente necesito mas ganas para hacer este jajaja. Todo bien. Se que Jeucristo es mi salvador y que si hacemos todo lo podamos en la vida aqui, tendremos la vida eterna ahi.
So that is about it! Hope you all have a wonderful week!
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