I think one gift (or skill or whatever you call it) is being able to read something one time and then years later being able to remember what it is that I read. I finished reading the Old Testament like a little less than a year ago and I literally only read it once (but it was a super detailed reading), and someone on Saturday asked me why some people say that its a sin to have your palms read and stuff like that and they were pretty insistent on why it was okay. And I suddenly remembered that this exists in Chronicles 10:
13 ¶So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;
14 And inquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
So as soon as the question was asked I was able to open the Bible and explain that it's not good because we're asking man and not God, and they (also my companion) were pretty impressed. I was too since I literally had only read that scripture like one time before sharing it! haha.
Also, I was finally able to talk to my companion when some members and other missionaries noticed that he wanted me to do everything by myself, and he even said that I had to do everything by myself since I was senior companion. I guess he actually wants to work hard but thinks that he just has to follow me around and not make decisions, and since I had told him before that he had to put more effort into the companionship, and he didn't listen, I told this RM who just got back and the other missionaries to talk to him, and he ended up changing, which is nice.
We also ended up getting some eternal investigadors to go to church. Pilar, the mom of that one punk kid Sebastian finally went to church, since she always complains to us that her son is a punk and doesnt respect her, and how she wants him to go to church, and we were like, "Hey, what are you doing so that he changes?" And she said, "Nothing." And we proceeded to scold her and yell at her (not actually yell but I'm not sure how to say "regañar" without it sounding weird in English) and tell her that she needed to change so that he changes.....so she went to church! She just has a bunch of excuses of why she doesn't want to go like "I don't like it when the teachers ask me questions" or "I don't like to read in the classes" so I had to talk to the gospel principles teacher and tell him not to have her read or ask her questions.....but I guess it all worked out.
Also we're teaching this guy named Vicente, who's acually been going to church for a really long time, but can't get baptized since he's living with his "wife," (less active) and they're not married. They've been in the marriage process for a year, but since the marriage process in Colombia is trash, they probably won't get married for about another 6 months. He told us that this really hurts him and that this Sunday he literally felt like he wanted to cry because he can't take the sacrament. I think this is so cool because he's not even a member, and he understands so well the importance of the sacrament and its even hurts him knowing that he's not worthy to partake. When I think many of the members treat in like the Sunday mid-meeting refreshment, and even a lot of people at BYU that I knew would take in unworthily, but Vicente, doesn't, and it hurts him. Vicente understands. I wish everyone understood like he does. So I told him that he should live somewhere else. He's going to talk it over with his (member) wife, and were going to call him in the morning. If he does take the decision to move out, he'll probably get baptized this Saturday.
Love you.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Monday, February 13, 2017
Popayan (Recuerdo) - Week four
So like on Monday we had a little family home evening and while I was singing "I love that my Heavenly Father loves me" I had a spiritual confirmation that it’s true. It was the strongest I’ve felt the Spirit in a while, so it was pretty cool.
Also this week I literally condemned someone to hell. In Matthew 10 it says: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
So we didn’t shake the dust off our feet, because there are active members who live in that house, but we did something similar. We were teaching this one chick who lives in the house of our pensionist, who has been to church a few times, but I was just thinking that she never was baptized just because the last time there were good missionaries in this are was in like 2015. So we started teaching the restoration, reading a ton of scriptures from her little Bible, and she even said that it made a ton of sense, but when my companion was testifying, I could totally feel the Spirit and I know that she did too, she just got up and started washing dishes, like, what the heck?? And then she absolutely refused to say the closing prayer, (and she’s said the prayer hundreds of times before!) and so I felt impressed to say something like "Vivi, I know that you’ve felt the Spirit and that God has answered your prayers, and in this moment He’s told you again by His Spirit that what we’re saying is true, just know that if you don’t say the prayer, your soul will be condemned and that you will regret not listening to us when you’re in hell!" She started laughing, not like hey that was funny laugh but literally an evil laugh, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the devil possessed her heart, and she let it happen. The members who were present told me the same thing....pretty sad.
Also, I’m having problems with my disobedient companion--he literally doesn’t talk, he lets me plan and contact by myself, and if I don’t keep silent for about 10 seconds in a lesson, he doesn’t teach either. So on Friday and Saturday I told him that I was going to be like him (I’ve told him several times that he has to participate more, and he just responds with "I’m junior companion") and I literally didn’t talk. Or walk anywhere, thinking that it would make him take the initiative, but no. It probably wasn’t the best thing to do, but I guess if he doesn’t want to be a hard worker, what can I do?
Sometimes I look at some other missionaries, and think that life’s not fair. For example, my friend Elder Alcorta had 2 trainers, the first is the current assistant to the president, the second was a former zone leader. Then he was a trainer and a district leader, his son was awesome, he trained again for a transfer, now he’s a zone leader. In about 5 transfers, all of his companions have been pretty great. Meanwhile, I’ve literally only had 3 good companions, and 2 of them were when that one thing happened with that zone leader who lied, and the other was my second son, but I was only with him for one transfer in a pretty bad area (for the carnivals). I guess I’ve learned that the mission is about more than just about being a leader, and that not all good missionaries are leaders. Or the lord wanted me to learn something with all of these companions I’ve had. I think I’ve become a great leader without actually having a leadership position, but just by having to deal with all of these guys I feel like I’ve grown as a person and learned how to deal with these kinds of people, which is something that I’ll probably need when I have a job and stuff.
After the transmission where they announced the new rules, we got a text message that said "the schedule is the same, there isn't dinner", so for us the only change is that we plan in the morning and have a longer pday I guess.
Tell Blake to put Mark 8:38 or Romans 1:16 on his jacket.
Also this week I literally condemned someone to hell. In Matthew 10 it says: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
So we didn’t shake the dust off our feet, because there are active members who live in that house, but we did something similar. We were teaching this one chick who lives in the house of our pensionist, who has been to church a few times, but I was just thinking that she never was baptized just because the last time there were good missionaries in this are was in like 2015. So we started teaching the restoration, reading a ton of scriptures from her little Bible, and she even said that it made a ton of sense, but when my companion was testifying, I could totally feel the Spirit and I know that she did too, she just got up and started washing dishes, like, what the heck?? And then she absolutely refused to say the closing prayer, (and she’s said the prayer hundreds of times before!) and so I felt impressed to say something like "Vivi, I know that you’ve felt the Spirit and that God has answered your prayers, and in this moment He’s told you again by His Spirit that what we’re saying is true, just know that if you don’t say the prayer, your soul will be condemned and that you will regret not listening to us when you’re in hell!" She started laughing, not like hey that was funny laugh but literally an evil laugh, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the devil possessed her heart, and she let it happen. The members who were present told me the same thing....pretty sad.
Also, I’m having problems with my disobedient companion--he literally doesn’t talk, he lets me plan and contact by myself, and if I don’t keep silent for about 10 seconds in a lesson, he doesn’t teach either. So on Friday and Saturday I told him that I was going to be like him (I’ve told him several times that he has to participate more, and he just responds with "I’m junior companion") and I literally didn’t talk. Or walk anywhere, thinking that it would make him take the initiative, but no. It probably wasn’t the best thing to do, but I guess if he doesn’t want to be a hard worker, what can I do?
Sometimes I look at some other missionaries, and think that life’s not fair. For example, my friend Elder Alcorta had 2 trainers, the first is the current assistant to the president, the second was a former zone leader. Then he was a trainer and a district leader, his son was awesome, he trained again for a transfer, now he’s a zone leader. In about 5 transfers, all of his companions have been pretty great. Meanwhile, I’ve literally only had 3 good companions, and 2 of them were when that one thing happened with that zone leader who lied, and the other was my second son, but I was only with him for one transfer in a pretty bad area (for the carnivals). I guess I’ve learned that the mission is about more than just about being a leader, and that not all good missionaries are leaders. Or the lord wanted me to learn something with all of these companions I’ve had. I think I’ve become a great leader without actually having a leadership position, but just by having to deal with all of these guys I feel like I’ve grown as a person and learned how to deal with these kinds of people, which is something that I’ll probably need when I have a job and stuff.
After the transmission where they announced the new rules, we got a text message that said "the schedule is the same, there isn't dinner", so for us the only change is that we plan in the morning and have a longer pday I guess.
Tell Blake to put Mark 8:38 or Romans 1:16 on his jacket.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Popayan (Recuerdo) - Week Two
We actually did get our energy back like last Monday night, so you don’t have to worry too much about that!
I’m thinking that we can probably baptize like 4 families this transfer (which would get me the prestigious "Captain Moroni" award. I got "Son of Mosiah" in Buga!) This area has a lot of potential, since there haven’t been good missionaries here since like, 2015!
We’re still working with the Jurado-Vasques family, the family of 4, and we actually taught the older daughter finally. We know that we have to baptize them this transfer, but every time we teach them, we don’t feel it....if you know what I mean. But they’re really good. The last lesson they even said that they know that the point of receiving us is to see if they like the church and then get baptized. They couldn’t go to church on Sunday because something happened with their parents in the hospital again, so I think it’s probably the Adversary working with them...
We found some old teaching records in the house (like 10 years old) and while we were looking for some of those people we found another family, Paola and her 11-year-old son Juan. They said that the missionaries went to their house once (like 10 years ago) and never went back, or invited them to the church even, but they’re really cool and also want to get baptized! And they were also going to go to church on Sunday, got up early, got ready, and when they were about to go out the door, her aunts came for a surprise visit, so they felt bad and didn’t want to just leave them there so...I think again, somebody is working real hard so that they don’t go to church.
And then there’s Sonia and her daughter who are still really excited to go to church and are learning a lot, but on Sunday Sonia had a job interview (like, she just got out of jail like a month ago, so she really needs a job to be able to take care of her kid), so I guess what I’m trying to say is that nobody went to church but there’s a ton of potenctial here in EL RECUERDO!
We´re also working hard with this punk named Sebastian, (see picture) who’s active in the church, but does/says a ton of stuff that worries us. He’s like always talking to us about some girl that he hung out with on the weekend, and to be honest, they’re all kinda slutty, and he also has a bunch of posters and notebooks with inappropriate pictures. The other day he was asking us stuff like if we broke the law of chastity before the mission, and how the repentance process was. Also we are always helping him with homework and stuff, we really want the best for this kid, but he’s making it real hard to help him.
Hope Dad’s okay! But hey he got the rebound, so it was probably worth it. I actually bought a basketball the other day and we’re playing ball in the mornings with the district (I’m still the only American but this kid from the Phillipines is pretty good.)
I never heard back from president. The problem that I have with Pres Pricoli is that he never responds to my letters. Like never. So this wasn’t an exception. Whatever, I’m still working hard.
I’m thinking that we can probably baptize like 4 families this transfer (which would get me the prestigious "Captain Moroni" award. I got "Son of Mosiah" in Buga!) This area has a lot of potential, since there haven’t been good missionaries here since like, 2015!
We’re still working with the Jurado-Vasques family, the family of 4, and we actually taught the older daughter finally. We know that we have to baptize them this transfer, but every time we teach them, we don’t feel it....if you know what I mean. But they’re really good. The last lesson they even said that they know that the point of receiving us is to see if they like the church and then get baptized. They couldn’t go to church on Sunday because something happened with their parents in the hospital again, so I think it’s probably the Adversary working with them...
We found some old teaching records in the house (like 10 years old) and while we were looking for some of those people we found another family, Paola and her 11-year-old son Juan. They said that the missionaries went to their house once (like 10 years ago) and never went back, or invited them to the church even, but they’re really cool and also want to get baptized! And they were also going to go to church on Sunday, got up early, got ready, and when they were about to go out the door, her aunts came for a surprise visit, so they felt bad and didn’t want to just leave them there so...I think again, somebody is working real hard so that they don’t go to church.
And then there’s Sonia and her daughter who are still really excited to go to church and are learning a lot, but on Sunday Sonia had a job interview (like, she just got out of jail like a month ago, so she really needs a job to be able to take care of her kid), so I guess what I’m trying to say is that nobody went to church but there’s a ton of potenctial here in EL RECUERDO!
We´re also working hard with this punk named Sebastian, (see picture) who’s active in the church, but does/says a ton of stuff that worries us. He’s like always talking to us about some girl that he hung out with on the weekend, and to be honest, they’re all kinda slutty, and he also has a bunch of posters and notebooks with inappropriate pictures. The other day he was asking us stuff like if we broke the law of chastity before the mission, and how the repentance process was. Also we are always helping him with homework and stuff, we really want the best for this kid, but he’s making it real hard to help him.
Hope Dad’s okay! But hey he got the rebound, so it was probably worth it. I actually bought a basketball the other day and we’re playing ball in the mornings with the district (I’m still the only American but this kid from the Phillipines is pretty good.)
I never heard back from president. The problem that I have with Pres Pricoli is that he never responds to my letters. Like never. So this wasn’t an exception. Whatever, I’m still working hard.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Popayan (Recuerdo) - Week One
First off, when I was talking to my new companion, he told me that in his 6 (7) months in the mission, he hasn't had a single baptism, and that all of his companions (including his trainer) haven't been hard workers. So he asked President in interviews for a hardworking companion so that he could have baptisms. There haven't been any baptisms in this area for a loooong time. So I guess that's why they sent me here, which makes sense, because President told me in my last interview "wherever we put you, we know that you have the potential to shine." And I guess they lowered me because the district leader here (a great friend of mine, see fotos in drive) just got here and is training. So I’m thinking that's why they transferred me, and I'm not a DL because there's already a good one here. So that made me feel a little better. President hasn't responded to my interview solicitud either. Oh well.
The area is really big, but my companion only knows a small part of it, so we spent a lot of time exploring the area. We found 14 new investigators this week (above the mission average) and we even went out to work one day at 10 (when you should do it at 11), so were working really hard. The coolest people I've met are 2 families that we’re probably gonna baptize this transfer. They are both so prepared and married, so that makes our job easier!
The first family is the family Vasquez I think? A young couple with 2 daughters, but the older is always upstairs with the boyfriend and never wants to talk to us.....but the parents and the younger daughter (13) are super receptive, and prepared! They have said that they feel the Spirit any time we go teach them, they're super excited to read the Book of Mormon (we even gave an English copy to the dad because he's a translator, he actually knows a ton of English) and when their neighbors started criticizing us (”they worship Jose Smith!”) and they actually defended us! they didn't go to church on Sunday, were not sure why since we called them on Saturday night and they said that they would go, but the grandparents are sick in the hospital so im thinking something happened there. But we’re really excited for them!
The other family is just a single mom and her 8 yr old daughter, and the Mom (Sonia) just got out of jail like a month ago, she doesn't tell us what she did but she's really trying to make a big change. Her and her daughter have a baptismal date for the 18 AND they went to church yesterday, and they walked there! (Which is really impressive, because they live like an hour away walking!!!) her faith is so big, she was willing to walk that far just to go to church that she's never been to before, with her 8 and 3 year old daughter....
Also, we don't have energy in our house....the bill got to us like on Wednesday and on Thursday they came to cut the light....so we've been sleeping with candles, and we also can't cook anything since our stove is electric, so we've been eating delivery like every night, which is kinda expensive...
AP physics was really easy...for me anyways, cuz I’m good at math. Physics and Calculus were the only AP classes I took senior year, and I didn't do too well in calculus because the teachers method didn't favor me at all (explain very briefly how to do the problems and then let the class do homework for an hour, helping the students who didn't understand and letting those who do understand work, which isn't really a bad system, but the teacher always gave priority to the girls and left me alone).
People always ask me how I feel about Trump, and my response is always "eh" the Colombians don't like him either. They ask me about Obama a lot too. I normally respond "at least he was cool and tweeted about basketball." I’m not a big politics fan. I don't think I’ll vote when I get back anyways, I’ll be a happier person.
Is Darcy gonna get married yet?
The area is really big, but my companion only knows a small part of it, so we spent a lot of time exploring the area. We found 14 new investigators this week (above the mission average) and we even went out to work one day at 10 (when you should do it at 11), so were working really hard. The coolest people I've met are 2 families that we’re probably gonna baptize this transfer. They are both so prepared and married, so that makes our job easier!
The first family is the family Vasquez I think? A young couple with 2 daughters, but the older is always upstairs with the boyfriend and never wants to talk to us.....but the parents and the younger daughter (13) are super receptive, and prepared! They have said that they feel the Spirit any time we go teach them, they're super excited to read the Book of Mormon (we even gave an English copy to the dad because he's a translator, he actually knows a ton of English) and when their neighbors started criticizing us (”they worship Jose Smith!”) and they actually defended us! they didn't go to church on Sunday, were not sure why since we called them on Saturday night and they said that they would go, but the grandparents are sick in the hospital so im thinking something happened there. But we’re really excited for them!
The other family is just a single mom and her 8 yr old daughter, and the Mom (Sonia) just got out of jail like a month ago, she doesn't tell us what she did but she's really trying to make a big change. Her and her daughter have a baptismal date for the 18 AND they went to church yesterday, and they walked there! (Which is really impressive, because they live like an hour away walking!!!) her faith is so big, she was willing to walk that far just to go to church that she's never been to before, with her 8 and 3 year old daughter....
Also, we don't have energy in our house....the bill got to us like on Wednesday and on Thursday they came to cut the light....so we've been sleeping with candles, and we also can't cook anything since our stove is electric, so we've been eating delivery like every night, which is kinda expensive...
AP physics was really easy...for me anyways, cuz I’m good at math. Physics and Calculus were the only AP classes I took senior year, and I didn't do too well in calculus because the teachers method didn't favor me at all (explain very briefly how to do the problems and then let the class do homework for an hour, helping the students who didn't understand and letting those who do understand work, which isn't really a bad system, but the teacher always gave priority to the girls and left me alone).
People always ask me how I feel about Trump, and my response is always "eh" the Colombians don't like him either. They ask me about Obama a lot too. I normally respond "at least he was cool and tweeted about basketball." I’m not a big politics fan. I don't think I’ll vote when I get back anyways, I’ll be a happier person.
Is Darcy gonna get married yet?
Monday, January 16, 2017
Ipiales - Week Six
On Thursday we did divisions. I went with Elder Rivas, who's pretty new and for the first time has a disobedient companion and was starting to let his companion convince him to do some things, so I had to TRAIN him in these divisions that we did together. We went to that alcoholics foundation with a member who used to have a drinking problem before he was baptized, and he ended up sharing his testimony about the Word of Wisdom and how much the church has helped him. A few of the members started tearing up. I think a member's testimony ALWAYS makes a huge difference in the lessons.
We also taught the mom of this 18 year old girl (who got baptized by herself like 4 years ago and has attended the church ever since!) and the mom was a little confused about why her daughter would spend so much money just to go to Ecuador (Guayaquil) just to go to a temple, so we explained a little bit about family history and baptisms for the dead, and then she got really mad because her daughter had asked for information about her grandmother, who, according to her, was a really bad person, and how she didn't want her daughter to do anything for that woman...but we explained a little bit more about the spirit world, and told her that as human beings we all make mistakes, in this case, her grandma was really bad to her, but how up there in the spirit world, she probably feels really bad about the damage she caused, and that this baptism would help her grandma to repent and help her as a person to grow closer to her family. She ended up crying during the closing prayer, but wasn't able to go to church on Sunday, we'.re not sure why.
We were also working with a less active, Brandon, who's 18 and was filling out his papers to go on a mission, but then his grandparents died and now he has a drinking problem. We pretty much told him "do you think your grandparents are proud of you, watching you drink every day from the heavens?" It was pretty direct, but he ended up going to church on Sunday, also we got him to commit to do the temple work for his grandparents (which includes being worthy to go to the temple) But he ran out of church crying during the last hymn, because there was a little testimony meeting of the people who went to the temple and the last testimony was about a girl who had done temple work for her grandpa. I think he felt really bad, and not worthy to be in church, so he literally RAN from the chapel
I would like to know how things keep going in Ipiales, but I got transferred because the Zone leader hated everybody and was finishing the mission, so he invented a bunch of stuff about all of the missionaries in the zone, and almost everyone had transfers, except my son, and all of the leaders were lowered, (ALL of the district leaders, and the other zone leader) some of them junior companion of new missionaries, and now I'm in Popayan (AGAIN) with another disobedient missionary (AGAIN), but I wrote a letter to president, and asked for an interview to be able to explain what REALLY happened (with evidence), so I think in a few weeks I'll be district leader again. Just a normal day in the Mision Colombia Cali 😒
It was paint, and foam. but mostly paint.
Love you!
Monday, January 9, 2017
Ipiales - Week Five
Honestly, like I said last week, we really didn't do anything because of the carnavals. It was actually pretty scary, leaving the house, so we only did it like 3 times all week, and those three times, the people painted us, and stuff. On Friday I ended up buying a spray thing that everyone was using to be able to defend myself while I was out and about. I took a bunch of videos from my window but the internet where I am is soooooo sloowwwwww that I can't really upload them right now, but you can really see that the people were like ruthless in painting people. I took one video where this one guy was just walking minding his own business, and when I say that these guys were gonna paint him, he started running but they caught him and pinned him on the ground and started painting him and throwing flour and stuff on him, and if people get mad that they got painted, everyone just responds with "hey ---- if you don't wanna play then go home and sleep!" so that's something
Something was that we were able to buy some of the spray stuff and totally got the zone leader that nobody likes and that finishes the mission this Saturday, so that's something. This guys really stresses me out anyways, like always calling me and yelling at me for stuff that I can't do anything about (like the carnavals).
Haha if there's something that I've learned it's that missionaries all over the world use the same exact examples for everything. I personally use the example that the original church was funded upon 3 pillars, (profets, apostoles, and the priesthood) and that the church was like a glass statue, and when the pillars were taken away the church fell and shattered into a million pieces. Normally the people realize that that's where all these churches come from before we explain it.
It's good that Granny's okay. How's Grandpa? Last I heard from him he was pretty bad...
Something cool that you might like is the gospel topics essays that are on lds.org. I read some of them, but in Spanish.
Love you all!
Something was that we were able to buy some of the spray stuff and totally got the zone leader that nobody likes and that finishes the mission this Saturday, so that's something. This guys really stresses me out anyways, like always calling me and yelling at me for stuff that I can't do anything about (like the carnavals).
Haha if there's something that I've learned it's that missionaries all over the world use the same exact examples for everything. I personally use the example that the original church was funded upon 3 pillars, (profets, apostoles, and the priesthood) and that the church was like a glass statue, and when the pillars were taken away the church fell and shattered into a million pieces. Normally the people realize that that's where all these churches come from before we explain it.
It's good that Granny's okay. How's Grandpa? Last I heard from him he was pretty bad...
Something cool that you might like is the gospel topics essays that are on lds.org. I read some of them, but in Spanish.
Love you all!
Monday, January 2, 2017
Ipiales - Week Four
This week was actually kinda funny since the city where I am right now the people are kinda crazy, on Saturday and Sunday we literally weren't allowed to leave the house, and also the mission decided to leave us here during the carnivals, so I’ll be going directly back home after I send this email....because the people literally are starting to scare me, they throw paint at like anyone who decides to walk by, so this week I’m gonna pretty much be in my house all the time, and not do anything, and I already had a little taste of that on New Year’s Eve, we just watched the same 3 church movies over and over again, washed my clothes, stuff like that. The power also went out at like 9:30 and came back at like 10 because the party outside was so hard....On New Year’s Eve there's a tradition here, a bunch of gays put on dresses and a ton of lipstick and start kissing everyone on the cheek, unless you give them money, and the thing is that it's like, totally accepted. If you get mad when they kiss you everyone is like "what's wrong with you?" That and a lot of other things are why we haven't been able to work
We did have a cool experience with one family, the missionaries have been visiting them for years, but based on the stories that they have told us, they went just to eat and play games rather than actually teach them, so I think they would progress if we actually taught them, and their aunt is member, so they have that good influence. But we decided to watch the Joseph Smith movie with them, and we started out with just the same 3 people who always listen to us, and the aunt-member, (10 people live in that house) and when we finished almost the whole family was watching and asking questions while they watched, it was really cool. We didn't really have time to talk about it afterwards, but we’re gonna try to go in the morning this week before the crazy starts to talk to them.
On New Year’s Day we had to go work, and I actually felt like really bad in the street, like someone was watching me. We were going to a member’s house, walking down a big hill and this black guy who was on the stairs started whistling when he saw us, and we heard whistles in response that came from the other side and I legit had this feeling that I should just go back home, but we had to work (according to the zone leader, but I don't believe that honestly), so we went to the house of a part member family and taught something small, and ate empanadas that they made, which was really cool,
That's about it. The week’s been kinda slow. December is always pretty bad for missionaries here, but I hope things get better from here on out, after the carnavals anyway.
I literally can't think of anything else to say. Love you!
We did have a cool experience with one family, the missionaries have been visiting them for years, but based on the stories that they have told us, they went just to eat and play games rather than actually teach them, so I think they would progress if we actually taught them, and their aunt is member, so they have that good influence. But we decided to watch the Joseph Smith movie with them, and we started out with just the same 3 people who always listen to us, and the aunt-member, (10 people live in that house) and when we finished almost the whole family was watching and asking questions while they watched, it was really cool. We didn't really have time to talk about it afterwards, but we’re gonna try to go in the morning this week before the crazy starts to talk to them.
On New Year’s Day we had to go work, and I actually felt like really bad in the street, like someone was watching me. We were going to a member’s house, walking down a big hill and this black guy who was on the stairs started whistling when he saw us, and we heard whistles in response that came from the other side and I legit had this feeling that I should just go back home, but we had to work (according to the zone leader, but I don't believe that honestly), so we went to the house of a part member family and taught something small, and ate empanadas that they made, which was really cool,
That's about it. The week’s been kinda slow. December is always pretty bad for missionaries here, but I hope things get better from here on out, after the carnavals anyway.
I literally can't think of anything else to say. Love you!
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