Hola Mis Carnalitos,
Well I'm gonna start out with the bad news this week, we
didn't have any baptisms. It was super sad. What happened is that
their nephew died and they were helping family with that all week and they
didn't have time to do anything else. But the good news is they're super
excited about baptism still so we're gonna help them find a way to get baptized
soon!
Okay so this week some cool stuff happened. First of
all our neighbor's chicken jumped off of their roof into our outside washing
room and then it started running around our house which was pretty
awesome. We had a pet chicken for like a minute! Also we had an
earthquake! The sirens went off and we went outside from a lesson and
everything was swaying and shaking but not super crazy. It was awesome
actually. But also kinda funny cause everyone was in the streets crying
and praying really loud and we were just saying how cool it was haha.
Also something super cool happened on Wednesday I
think? So when we planned out the day I told my companion that we were
gonna knock on doors at some point with the goal of entering a house (because
they never invite us in the first time we visit them). Anyways we had
just finished with a lesson and had a bit of time so we went to see a person we
hadn't talked to in awhile. They weren't home, so we turned to leave and
we decided to knock on a door that we had a good feeling about. Two SUPER
drunk people came out and I thought "Oh, great." But we started
talking to us and the woman said she's actually been searching for help because
she's an alcoholic and wants to stop, and she INVITED US IN to help her!
The very first door we knocked! Anyways long story short we started
teaching them and we're going to help them quit. Then we went to our next
visit and they weren't there either, so we were talking to some little kids
when a woman approached us because she has a drug addict son and we stood out
to her as people who could help. We told her we definitely could
help. We met with them twice this week, they came to church with us, and
we're going to start teaching their son in a rehab center which is gonna be
super cool. That was one of the coolest evenings of my whole mission.
To finish, we had a zone conference all about working with
members to find new people to teach. I would like to encourage all of you
members to do something to help your missionaries: First, pray and choose
a date that isn't too far away. Before this date, your goal is to find a
person/family to introduce to the Church and the missionaries. I can promise
you all that if you have the faith to find someone and you really search, you
will find someone before the date. And these people will be perfect
investigators because they will already have a friend and a little bit of an
understanding of the Church.
That's it for the week! Love you guys and hope you
have a great week!
Elder Warren
Pictures:
1. My favorite family in the world, the Perez family
2. Elder Avendaño fell asleep in our FHE
3. Elder Avendaño woke up when I went to take a selfie with him
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