This week has been alright, just a bit slow.
Tuesday we had our district meeting and talked about how
obedience and having the Spirit with us are related. It was an alright district meeting, nothing
too crazy. We also signed up Julieth for
institutes which she's pretty excited about.
Something cool is i guess Jhon Largacha, our pensionista's son is our
new branch mission leader! Woohoo!
Wednesday we talked a lot about family history. The branch is planning a temple trip for this
year so we're helping everyone get names ready.
Thursday was super rad because we found quite a few new
investigators! The day actually started
out slow and it was HOT so we were pretty stressed. But at 5, a member named Melissa took us to
one of her mom's friends. She's a pretty
normal lady, but she's worried about her son JP. She's afraid he doesnt have much direction in
his life. (he's 20 years old). The other was a new family from Medellin .
They were a reference from the church offices and I guess the mom had
attended the Church like 21 years ago.
She is SUPER interested in listening to us. So we ended the day pretty happy!
Friday we spent most the day doing baptismal interviews for
the missionaries in a nearby village called Cerrito. It's like a half an hour bus ride from Palmira , so just the trip
was an hour and it took a couple more hours to get all the investigators
interviewed. Good news is they all
passed!
Saturday we had the baptism of the other Elders. It was POURING rain all day, and we were
worried about people being able to come.
our fears were realized when 6 o'clock rolled around, the hour of the
service, and only us missionaries were there.
Something cool is the missionaries in Bizerta (where we had the
baptismal service) is Elder Skinner, my buddy from Cali and his comp! It was cool to catch up with him. But the rain wasnt stopping. until 7 o'clock came and Arley, the guy
getting baptized finally showed up. Then
the 1st counselor, his wife and his son.
So we had enough to make the service work. It turned out really nicely.
Even though we were few in number, it was very spiritual. The Lord will always make due with what we
have!
Sunday was a really good day. I felt the Spirit extra strong in
church. Ive just been reflecting on what
the mission has done for me. Ive changed
in all the good ways haha. Im just
really grateful. After church, we found
Li, the lady who came to church a couple weeks ago with all her kids. She moved to another neighborhood closer to
our house. But she's not doing so
well. Her kids are going off the deep end. It's sad to see how it's killing Li and she cant do much because she's divorced
and the kids live with the dad who doesnt supervise them. A parent's nightmare. But we're trying to help.
Today i went to the town square with Jhon Jairo, our
pensionista's son, and his cousin Mayra.
So yeah, that was my week haha nothing too crazy but we're
fighting to stay busy. Love you all!
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It looks like he finally was able to have a little fun on P-day in Palmira. He gave descriptions for a few pictures. The rest are pretty self explanatory :)
"What I do every Sunday :)"
"Drinking Mate in the street, haha"
" The cathedral of Palmira
from far away"
"Pigeons" :)
"Me at the Cathedral de Nuestra Señora de Palmar"
No description with this one but I'm guessing he
wanted birds to land on his head...haha!
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