Family,
Sounds like your past week was pretty chill!!
I just kinda love the weeks where not much happened. There should always
be a few weeks like that. And for you mom, I just feel like your life
doesn't ever slow down! But that is alright, because when Christ was here he
never ceased to work either! I'm also glad that everything is going good
over there! As long as everything is going good, I'm happy for you all!!
So yeah....my week was a pretty chill week too. Like
not too many Big things happened, but it wasn't a bad week either. I liked
it!
Saturday night our investigator family (the Family
Delgado) invited us to eat with them for dinner. It was really good as
well! Claudia (the mom) made like this chicken filled with bacon and
cheese.....SSSOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!! And then her little girl (Sarai) was
like the little waiter! haha, she had a little towel on her arm and was serving
us whatever we wanted (she's super funny because she's only 9 years old).
We then taught her about faith....and it was an amazing lesson!!!
Sunday was chill, and the family came to church!!!
YAY!!!! We had to push their baptismal date back to the 14th, Valentine’s Day.
They're not married by the law either so I think on the 14th we're going to
marry them too!! Just like Valentine's Day last year!!!!! They're going
to get married AND baptized the same day......that will be super cool! I'm
super excited!!!
On Monday was the zone leader leadership
meeting, so Elder Reynolds and I planned the food and everything like that, and
we ended up getting a really good banquet that came to the church. There
were like 4 or 5 different stages of food. In Mexico a lot of times food
comes in stages. Like first they give us soup, and then vegetables, and then
the main plate, and then the desert. It's not always like that, but a lot of
times they serve food like that. So the soup that we got was broccoli
soup served in a roll as the bowl. So like we could eat the 'bowl'
too! Broccoli soup....totally didn't like that before the mission, but I
love it now! (I know, this email I'm talking a lot about food....sorry).
Tuesday and Wednesday we're just normal days.
Not too many crazy things happened.
Thursday was a really good day! You're going
to think that maybe I'm a little weird, but I just loved it so much! So
Elder Reynolds and I went out to work early, so we just started contacting
people because we really didn't have anywhere else to go, and we got rejected
time after time after time. So then we decided to go with one of the
investigators of the sisters because they weren't going to have time to pass
by, so we went and there was a Jehovah´s Witness that was taking care of the
girl (investigator). So you know, we're all nice and say hi and
everything, and then she just starts to yell at us, just starts going into this
10-15 minute speech thing about how Jehovah is God and stuff like that (that is
the only subject that they ever talk about). And so then she just kept rambling
on, and I just got this smile on my face. I felt happy. Here I was
getting yelled at by a Jehovah's Witness, and I just smiled. Later when
we got away from her I just told Elder Reynolds that that lady made me happy,
and obviously he asked why, and I just said, it means I'm working again!
It was just a normal missionary experience, and I enjoyed it! It got me
excited to keep working, and later that night we contacted a bunch and we got a
lot of people that accepted us!
Yesterday was good too! Not much happened. It was
Elder Fangupo's birthday, so we went to this restaurant called Pampas do
sul. It's like Tucanos from Utah where they just keep giving you
different types of meat while you have the little turner thing on green!
It was really good!!! So yeah, it was a good birthday for Elder Fangupo!!!!
So lately I've been reading in probably the hardest
part to understand in the Book of Mormon......2nd Nephi. I like it, but
when it uses the references from Isaiah I just get all confused, and then in Spanish
more because if I don't understand the words in English, how am I going to
understand it in Spanish. But at the same time, Spanish has helped me
understand other parts that I couldn't understand in English! Cool!
Although I don't understand very well, I feel the spirit so strong. Like I
remember that there is a chapter where Isaiah sees God, and then a little angel
comes to him with a burning coal and puts it on Isaiah's tongue, and then his
sins are forgiven him. It makes me think that repenting ourselves of our
sins never is easy....at times it can hurt a lot, but it for sure will work,
because God wants to forgive us, and He has given us the way to receive His
forgiveness.....through His son Jesus Christ! Although the words of
Isaiah are so confusing, they all apply so amazingly to our lives! It
just takes a lot of praying and revelation to reveal the principles.
But yeah! Thanks so much for all you do for me!
Elder Barroteran is learning good! Everything is chill here in the
offices, and I'm still enjoying the little time I have to be one of Christ's
representatives! I love you all so much! Have a great week!!!! Work hard
and play hard!!!
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