Cafe Rio Burritos and Running with the Bulls!!!
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| Running of the Bulls! |
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| Elder Sanchez & I |
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| Got my package Mom - thanks! |
Amigoooos y amigaaaas,
Well this week
has been rough, but sometimes I like the hard weeks. I'll quote my
trainer Elder Echegaray here: "My favorite days are the hard days in the
mission. Those days when every lesson bails on you so you go out and
contact in the street. Those days when every person that you contact in
the street just says no. And then at 9:50, right when you have to go
back to the apartment, you receive a reference from a Dominican in the
street that you know is not going to want anything the next day. Those
are my favorite days."
Those are the days when my testimony of the truthfulness of this work grows the most. Those are the days when I look deep down inside and think of why I am out here in the mission. Those are the days when I think of my cousin Nathan who have up so much to serve a mission in South Africa. Those are the days when I think of my cousin Ryan, my best friend Jacob, and my best friend Truman, serving their hardest out there in other parts of the world. Those are the days when I realize that I really am a disciple of Christ.
Those are the days when my testimony of the truthfulness of this work grows the most. Those are the days when I look deep down inside and think of why I am out here in the mission. Those are the days when I think of my cousin Nathan who have up so much to serve a mission in South Africa. Those are the days when I think of my cousin Ryan, my best friend Jacob, and my best friend Truman, serving their hardest out there in other parts of the world. Those are the days when I realize that I really am a disciple of Christ.
Some really cool things happened this
week though too so I'll start with those. On Thursday, we ate with an
American family that lives here named the Hubers. They are awesome! They
made us Cafe Río burritos and they were to die for. They are such an
awesome family. All of them are learning a lot of Spanish but they are
doing really well! We shared a great lesson on the Sacrament with them
and I think our relationship with them has grown a lot. On Saturday, we
put on an activity for the ward on the plan of salvation. It was
awesome!! Some of you make have heard of it but basically the people
come in and sit down in seats that are set up like an airplane. The
plane crashes and the people are taken on a tour through the Telestial,
Terrestrial, and Celestial kingdoms. It was awesome and everyone felt
the Spirit really strongly. It grew my testimony of the truthfulness of
this Church. Oh and Balthazar came to church and loved it!! He has a
lot of potential!
Some
bad things that happened... Our car got towed. Emilio and Lucy have
been out of town for a week now and also told us that they wanted to
push back their baptismal date a bit. Felipe and Isabel have to separate
because of legal reasons and we had to say good bye to Felipe
yesterday. They were sooo close to figuring it all out and getting
married too. Now it probably won't happen for months and months. Other
than that, just a lot of people bailed on us this week and we haven't
had a lot of time to work either.
President Jackson came out with some
more changes that happened today in the mission. A missionary had to go
home and so it was sad to see him leave. Elder Moyano hurt his knee in
the Islands and so he had to come in as well. And he's here with US!!!
He's from Argentina and he is suuper cool. I am excited to have him
here. He will just be here for a couple of weeks to recuperate so it
should be fun!
Well we are hoping to have a better
week this week! We've just got to keep working hard and making the best
out of the short time that we have here. I honestly love the mission
though and wouldn't trade it for anything. Keep up the good work back
home!!
Love you all!
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