Hola hola! So today is cambios and….. we are staying the same! We just got the news this morning, but I’m excited to continue to work with our investigators.
This last week was a good week. Since last Monday was technically the last p-day before cambios we had to deep clean the casa, in case we were transferred. After p-day time ended we had an appointment with a woman named Angeles Mandujano, whose name we found while looking through our area book. We taught her a lesson then invited her to be baptized to which she accepted! Nobody else in her family wanted to listen to us, but we are going to go back another day to try and talk to her husband and invite him as well so they can progress and be baptized together.
Tuesday in our district meeting we talked about helping investigators better understand why we are here. We are going to show them their teaching record and explain what it’s for in a way that helps them know we care about them. We’re also going to give them a copy they can use and mark to help them see if there’s any points of any lessons that they maybe don’t fully understand so we can help them. We’ll see how that goes. Then they announced we were going to have a zone activity to celebrate the success we had the cambio before with all the baptisms we had!! I was super excited! We were able to contact a few new people that day too so that was good.
Wednesday we had a lesson with Cesar planned but when we got there he told us he is grateful we were able to passby but he’s started going to school and doing a bunch of other things so he doesn’t have time for us to continue. It’s sad and hard but hopefully missionaries in the future will find him and he will accept them. Later we visited a family whose daughter was baptized by missionaries before us. We found out the family is active, except for the dad. He is catholic and has a stone heart, but we had a nice visit where we talked about the Bible and things they had questions about. We also found 8 contacts throughout the day, one of them is a super awesome and kind woman named Fabiola Santillan. She accepted to talk to us right then and accepted another day for us to come back and talk with her and her family! She also told us she didn’t think we knocked on her door by chance, that it was for a reason.
Thursday was our zone activity and it was so much fun! We played musical chairs and that sounds lame but it was really intense, fun and I won! Then we had sack races, had a game/challenge where we were with a partner blind folded and had to try to feed each other yogurt which got really messy but was fun. After that we had a water balloon toss where if one partnership threw it out of bounds or failed to catch it and it popped, they were out. Then we ate food and had a tug-of-war challenge. The only thing is during the sack races, at the end of my race I got super antsy and ended up tripping or rather diving and fell on my wrist and arm and jacked up my arm. So as a result, I couldn’t play in the water balloon toss or the tug-of-war. I didn’t break anything, I could flex and extend my arm. I felt dumb I got hurt but at least it wasn’t worse (and it’s all good now). Quite a few people got injured with scrapes form falling during the sack races, but it was still super fun.
Friday, we had a couple interesting appointments. The first was with a lady and I don’t know how to describe her but she just acted strange. The second was with a guy who knows a lot about religions and Christ and the scriptures. We talked with him about the Restoration but at the end we didn’t feel it was the right time to invite him to be baptized. It was an okay day other than the fact that my legs, neck and a little of my face are very sunburnt form the activity. Then we went to visit with Elias to see how he is doing and he told us he doesn’t feel like this is the true church because it’s basically like the others and he wanted to be free to think. He tried to return the Book of Mormon we gave him but we told him to keep it, actually read it, and pray then we would talk on Sunday.
Saturday we had quite a lot of appointments but they all fell through. When we first contact people they almost always say we can pass another day, just to get us to leave them alone rather than saying no they aren’t interested. It’s rare when someone is direct and says they aren’t interested. Unfortunately, that’s how the people are here, which drives me crazy! So we spent the day walking all over our area trying to verify with our investigators that they were going to come to church. 4 of them we contacted said they would be there.
Sunday we called and confirmed with our investigators in the morning, but only Eiias went to church. After Sacrament meeting he told us again he wants to be a free thinker and gave the Book of Mormon back. I don’t understand but he has his agency. At least we gave him the opportunity but that didn’t really help me feel better. After that we had a lesson with Concepcion so we talked with her to help her know that God loves her and about the Plan of Salvation. Later we don’t know if it was from the lunch we ate or what but my companion started to feel sick to his stomach, had head and back aches. We tried calling our leaders, Hermana Urrea and the doctor but no one was answering so we decided to go back to the casa and good thing we did too because my companion threw up. I eventually got ahold of President who get us in contact with the Mission Doctor who told us of medicines to go buy. After we got the medicines, my companion rested while I made calls to set appointments. He’s feeling better today which is good.
PS we haven’t heard anything about talking on Mother’s day yet but I’m sure we will be able to!! Thanks so much for the email! I love you guys so much!
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