Week 20 - Chongwis

Hello Everyone!

Another good week out here with my greenie Elder Chichia!  We've been able to get a lot of work done which is good obviously haha.  But before we begin I need a moment of silence for my good friend in the mission Elder Trinidad.  He didn't die or anything but President Mann moved him to a different zone so now I never get to see him.  We had a funeral for him on Thursday night.  It was very sad.

Okay now the funniest thing from the week.  Yesterday we were in church and a dude from our ward told me that a non-member was outside and wanted to meet us missionaries.  So I went out to meet him and I could tell right away that he was homeless.  He was all confused about the hours of our services and said he was waiting for his friends (they were fake).  I told him he could come back next Sunday but some other member said "there's still 20 minutes, go in right now!"  Bad idea.  He came in to Sacrament Meeting and withing three minutes he was asleep and snoring louder than that one sister that used to snore all the time in our ward back home.  Anyways the whole ward was laughing because he snored so loud, and then after the meeting WE COULDN'T WAKE HIM UP.  It took like 15 minutes of all of us shaking him to kick him out.  He kept saying "Ya voy, solo cinco minutos mas" haha.  It was awesome.

Also we were teaching some investigators about baptism this week (keep in mind that we've put two baptismal dates with them already and they haven't saiod anything about another church), but we were talking about baptism with them and they were like "Well we were all baptized in the Catholic church."  What?!  But we talked to them about proper authority and baptism by immersion and baptizing little kids and they were still like "Well, I don't think we need baptism, we just need to study the scriptures more."  They also said that Catholic priests had authority because they know 7 different languages, which makes them really smart.  I guess that's the same thing as authority?  Good times.

But this week we're going to marry two of our investigators and baptize them!  (As long as everything goes smoothly with the wedding and divorce.)  We're super excited for them because they've completely changed their lives.

And that's it for the week!  Love you guys!  Have a great one!

Elder Warren