On Tuesday we had interviews with the president. Mine went well. He told me i would probablybe in this area for a 4th transfer, so I am happy about that. he also gave me some advice and things about what to do with some current investigators that we have right now. One of them, Mario (same mario as always) the president told me to try and get a baptismal date on him one more time, and if he doesnt, drop him because now he is just taking a really long time. So that kind of surprised me. Then after the interview we also had our district meeting (which we dont normally do), the assistants talked to us. Since we were there for so long, they bought lunch for everybody, so we ate 5-6 empanadas. We were also supposed to have divisions tomorrow.
Wednesday - Divisons were cancelled for some reason or another. We will do them next week sometime. we received a referral from another area in our district, so we visited them in the morning but they were sleeping. We had lunch at the church (since our normal wednesday lunch had to be at the church for a youth activity). The youth are doing some sort of theater play involving Nephi and his family and the trip they took to America. Then we headed over to the far reaches of our area to find some more people to teach, since we didnt have very many in that area. We passed the place where Mario worked, and decided to see if he was there. He told us he was just about to leave to go to capital, and he offered to drive us if we needed to go somewhere. So we said why not, and he drove us to the complete opposite corner of our area, and we looked for new investigators in that area as well.
Thursday - In the morning we visited Silvia really quick, even though we were going to have a lesson with her in the afternoon at the Campos house, like we do every week. In the afternoon, we painted Maria Navarro´s wall. I picked the color orange, although it wasn´t exactly super orange, it was a lighter color, but thats alright. We got into a little paint fight, and
these pictures are how I ended up.
She (Maria) actually told me to write my name on her wall in paint, so I did but I forgot to take a picture of it. that will have to be for next week. Then we had our lesson with Silvia and we talked about missionary work. I gave her the book Our Search for Happiness, and wrote a few things in the front cover, and she really liked it.
Friday - Friday we tried visiting some people that we had in the northern part of our area. None of the people we tried visiting were actually there, but we did get a lot of lessons from people we contacted on the street. So that was 3-4 new investigators.
Saturday - We didn´t have a set lunch planned, so that was disappointing. We thought we were going to have to cook in the apartment. But turns out that when we went to visit a member in the ward, her sister offered to give us lunch, and we hadn´t even told her we didnt have lunch for the day. Im told that that kind of thing only happens in this ward :) then we visited the referral that we had received a few days before. They were home and awake, so they invited us in. Taught lesson 1, and he told us that his dad was a member, and that he (the referral) had actually attended church a couple times. He said he would attend church in the morning the following day. And I think we drank tea. The mom gave us some drink, and my companion said it was mate cocido (a kind of drink that is alright for us to drink), so we
drank it, and then later we found out that it was a kind of tea which we werent supposed to drink. Oops. I didn´t like the taste anyways, I only drank about a third of it. Yuck. At night we had dinner with the Campos, and I helped cook pizza. I think there is a picture of me making the bread stuff.
Sunday - We went by the referrals house to bring him to church, but because of the rain (did i mention it has been raining for a day or two?) he hadnt come back from his dads house. Excuses... So off to church. I taught the Gospel Principles class by myself, topic was work and personal responsibility. I was told it was pretty good, but i´m a gringo/yankee trying to speak spanish. Who knows! In the afternoon went to Mario´s. Talked to him a bit. Tried to get a baptismal date on him, but he still keeps saying not yet. His wife said he needed to get baptized, and he said if she wanted him to he would, but it wouldnt be for the right reason. At
least he isnt going to get baptized just because his wife wants him to... Even though he still doesnt want to get baptized it was still a really good lesson. He is a really good person, and I know that he will get baptized eventually. Still raining most of the day.
And here we are right now. We have a zone activity at 2 in the afternoon or something like that. We didn´t think we were going to have a zone activity, since our zone only had 7-8 baptisms the entire transfer... but surprise! We have to bring a liter of milk(what the heck?) and 5 pesos.
One of these days the past week (i dont remember which, I think it was Wednesday) was Día del Amigo (friends day) and is a normal thing to give gifts to your friends and things. So my companion and I bought a few little candy things and gave them to the members who help us most in the ward. They were really happy to receive something from the missionaries, haha.
Other than that I dont remember much what happened the past week... so I think that would be the end of the letter.
-Collin
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