11/28/11

Well another crazy week come and gone, although this week was a little different, and for somereason was a lot slower than the rest! haha but thats alright. We still had our good times!

Thanksgiving wasn´t too thankgivingy, cause no one celebrates it here. so we just brought a little thanksgiving in our lessons on that day. it went well, just didnt eat turkey and potatoes sadly. Thats alright, I think we had lasagna! mmmm! haha

We also finished my first change and Elder Vargas left, and in exchange we have Elder Alvarez. Funny uick story, we were visiting the bishops wife and we were telling her about him and I said his name was elder sanchez! Woops! haha go figure! He is a good guy. He is from argentina and is very animated about the work. He is our new district leader and he has a lot of good intentions. If I could change a little about him, I would ask him not to sing during personal study, not to touch my legs, EVER again, and he needs to be a little more real. He has got the fake happy plastered on his face always. But h is trying, its just a test o nmy patienece and love for everyone. Sorry, that clearly shows I was being a little judgemental, but im working on it!

We went on an adventure this week too! Hurray for adventures! haha we went in searh of some inactives, and I dont know if it is because they live like 30 miles from civilization that they are inactive, but we rode the bikes way out in the middle of nowhere and finally found the area. unfortunately we cam e to a sig nthat said "no pasar rondin armado" which means no tresspassing, we have an armed guard! haha so we decided we should turn around. But it was cool cause the house with that sign looked like a little white castle! we took some pictures and then turned around and round back into civilization. it was great fun!

We set a baptismal goal for this cahnge of having 2 baptisms! woo! I SO BADLY want to lograr eso or obtain that! So BADLY! so we are going to really invite everyone to be baptized. Thats also a goal for the zone, inviting EVERYONE!

That was pretty much my week, but first, spiritual story. So we planned a noche de hogar, or family home evening with this menos activo and she said ya, and seemed very for it. So we came by on the planned night and we stood a minute before her husband let us in. we shared the story of John tanner who gave so much for the church and we talked about how we should follow in this example. How if we will devote ourselves to the lord he will ALWAYS provide. and then we shared the importance of attending church and her husband said " at first I wasnt going to let you guys in, I new you were going to say i need to forgive and go to church . but now I am glad" it was awesome! and then when we were leaving, and they were like and we will see you on sunday! yay! haha I love those!

Oh ya one more funny story. Last night we passed by an investigator se llama Gabriela. She is an older lady who we have been trying for sin e I got here and she was finally thre and healthy enough to talk. Then we came in and we were going to talk about prohpets and she gave us some cake and some pop, even though we said we wouldnt mind water. Then we started teaching and she went off on a tangent I have never seen leave the lesson topic SO FAR! I realized when she was done that I didnt even know what we were talking aobut! Somehow prophets led into how she painted her cieling and that her brother has money. hahahahaha Then she was like "my brothr gives cookies to people, oh do you guys want some cookies? oh and I have eggs!" and she tried to give us ice cream too, but we said next time! it was late and we barely made it through pophets! hahaha It was hilarious cause we could not get out of there! She was lonely, so we will definitiely pass by more. It was just hilarious how the little old ladies can talk SO MUCH! haha

That was my week in a quick note! here comes week 2 change 2!

Elder Marvin