This week is going to be different because there was a lot of days with only one or zero interesting things so I might as well just talk about those.
Café Savoy
We visited a Café (Café literally means coffee shop in Spanish but the way we use it in English is 100% accurate) and bought some pastries. One of them was not very cheap (1.50 for a cream cheese filled doughnut type thing is expensive here, amazing deal in the US though). They tasted really good.
Maria
This story takes place on two different days and is one of the reasons for the format change this week. It would've been weird to separate the two parts.
On Tuesday we were sitting around and scheduling appointments and we really didn't have much to do. We just don't have a lot of investigators. We decided to pray to see if there was something the Lord wanted us to do that we hadn't thought of. After the prayer, Nuñez though it was a good idea to visit a house where we have had no success before. We scheduled an appointment at one point and the person didn't even live there. We stopped by the house and said hi. We found someone who was interested in hearing the gospel right here in El Carmen. We now have someone in the barrio where we live which is a first.
On Friday we had our next appointment with her and I think that was the strangest appointment yet. We got there and Maria (the new person) had her son (I think it was her son?), daughter in law, and a friend over, the son being very drunk. He kept on trying to talk to me in nonsensical English, as we tried to teach about the Sabbath Day. Everyone except the drunk was interested so we kept on going. A couple of minutes pass and two more drunks walk in wanting to talk. Now there's three sober interested people and 3 drunks. We quickly finished the lesson with them, greeted the drunks, and left. There was a stove fire going during the lesson so there was smoke in the air and everything. By far the wackiest lesson yet.
La Mata is a great place for missionary work
We taught in La Mata on Thursday. It's easier than we thought to find people. We had two lessons there and a family member we didn't know joined the first lesson. Just like that we found a new person.
Towards the end of a really good second lesson, this family walked in out of nowhere. The mother was very interested in the lesson and she wanted lessons with us? Outside of La Mata, a struggle to find people. Inside La Mata, they walk in on lessons and ask for more.
Sunday: This day actually gets its own section
We got up and attended church. One of the inactive families that has expressed that they never want to come back to church came. We see them a lot and say hi and all and this is the first time they came since I've been here.
There was like 20 people from the other area in the congregation which was interesting.
We visited a member family in the afternoon where the grandfather isn't a member. We taught our lesson about the importance of sharing your testimony even if it's just a simple one.
We also shared this good scripture from Come Follow Me:
Exodus 4:10-12
10 And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
The brother was very interested in the lesson and it was clear he could feel the spirit. We was really interested in the lesson and we hope it leads to something.
Follow up on previous weeks
Yeah uhhh, we can't contact Alexander or Josè anymore. Don't know what happened with that. The family who attended last week didn't come but we're still positive about them.
Sacrament Attendance
Sacrament Attendance is soooo important here. It's actually a requirement for baptism that they attend at least 2 times. It's so important that the investigators know the members (now if the branch mission leader and branch president would attend church more often that would be great). We can't be here forever and Elder Nuñez leaves next week. The sacrament and knowing the members are key to helping these people. The problem we have with the members is that they don't know the people who come to church because they don't attend or don't pay attention to the new people in the room.
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| Branch Activity |
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| General Conference = Free Channel |
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| Elder Tecun (on exchanges) |
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