Here I am

Yeah I'm still here, I haven't written all that much, but I feel like this week was somewhat interesting.

Anyway. On Tuesday after our district council we had exchanges. I was with Elder Govea, who’s from my generation and also has 22 months. We’re all getting old here. He’s really awesome. We went to eat with members and after we went to a members house to help with a service project. The project was to help him sweep his roof. His roof though was made out of like 40 year old roof sheets, and one step on those bad boys would surely send one smashing through the ceiling. The member is a pretty old man, but he had me help him but some wooden planks on the roof so we could stand on them and not fall through. I really wasn’t sure if it was gonna work, but the old guy started doing it like it was nothing so I had no choice but to follow him. It was an interesting service project. Afterwards, we zoomed away to go to a lesson with our friends Monseratt, her daughter Aislin, and her mom Juanita. They have baptism dates, and they’re very nice, but it's hard to teach them sometimes. We just really want ‘em to get baptized and sometimes it seems like they will, and other times it feels like they won’t. It's tough. They're very nice though and they gave us arroz con leche and also bread filled with cream cheese and raspberry, which is one of the best bread flavors known to man.

Anyways, on Wednesday we gave a blessing to a member and we taught Hector and Lourdes who are a very nice couple. Their son is in a wheelchair and has a partial tumor in his brain at 27 years old, so they’re always taking care of him, they’re fabulous people and of all the people we’re teaching I think they might have the most potential. They have baptism dates for this month. 

On Thursday, we went to teach Monesrat and Co. again. Sigh. They always go back and forth on baptism and the lessons are sometimes awkward, but we'll keep working with them. We also knocked a door and found a girl named Frida to teach, and then we taught another guy named Fausto

Friday, we had exchanges with the zone leaders. I was with Elder Borreguin in my area. He’s a nice guy. We taught a lady named Maria Teresa who’s been in teaching forever. She wants to get baptized but she has a bad smoking addiction. I felt so bad because as we were talking she had a large drip of black tobacco coming out of her mouth. She comes to church and everything, and she says she wants to get baptized. It’s just, well, tough. After that we knocked some doors and found a nice guy who maybe has potential. We sat in a park for a while and made calls and I decided to go look for some old investigators. On the way to where the map led us, we stopped and Elder Borreguin asked for directions to the building, after we contacted them and we ended up teaching all of the restoration and giving away 2 Books of Mormon. They seemed really interested and they said we could come back on Sunday. (they weren't at their house on Sunday, but their grandma was. She said they had left for the day that we could come back another day cause they really do have interest in hearing) after we had our mission correlation meeting in the church.

Saturday was a day. We got up early and went to go play basketball with the ZLs and the APs. It was really fun. After we went to a service project, and that’s when things got crazy. The service project was literally to clean, and cut the hair of an absolutely horrifyingly dirty dog. The poor dog was like 10 years old or more and I dont think it had been bathed in that much time. The lady has 3 and a couple of weeks ago with cleaned the first two, but this one was on a whole another level, Elder Borreguin and my companion Elder Winegar started shaving the dog and me and Elder Tippetts took the other two dogs for a walk. After we got back to the apartment building, we clipped the dogs collars to the fence and sat down on the apartment building stairs and watched the dogs. I had the ZL’s phone, and then we saw that one of the dogs had somehow managed up to climb the small metal fence, and get on the other side, getting caught up on its collar. We got up to go help it and I absentmindedly put the phone on the stairs. We came back like 2 minutes later and the phone was gone. Elder Tippetts freaked out cause they’ve already lost a phone this transfer. We started looking for it, but soon realized our search was in vain. Elder Tippetts said that while we were helping the dog, he heard a nearby apartment door open and then close sooner after. Plus the neighbor who lived in the closest house to the stairs where the phone was was peeking out the window. Anyway I hope you aren't confused reading this, it's just hard to explain, but basically we were 99.9% sure that the guy in the apartment building stole the phone. It was a daylight robbery (very subtle Wallace and Gromit reference there hehe). We were all pretty mad at the dude who stole it but there was nothing we could do. I felt bad and a little embarrassed that it was kinda my fault the phone got robbed. Later that day we had a very awkward lesson, with some pentacostals. They listened politely to us but the atmosphere in the lesson was so off and we just wanted to get out of there, plus the house was very warm and my forehead was sweating a ton. After that lesson we went with Hector and Lourdes, and literally the ambient, atmosphere was literally the opposite of the previous lesson. It felt so good to be with people who actually want to change their lives and get better. We taught the atonement, talked a about temples and all that. It was such a memorable lesson, and it was such a great contrast compared to the previous lesson.

Anyway that's my week! See ya!