A weird week

This was a crazy fast week in Palmira. Things have been going good, and there were some ups and downs this week. 

This branch is crazy. there are like 400 baptized people, but under 20 people that are active. It´s nuts. Elder Lybbert and I have to bless the sacrament every week because they don´t have any priesthood holders. (there are like 2 old guys that pass the sacrament. ) I also play the piano during sacrament meeting (opening and closing, cause I break the bread in between) the average age here I would say is around 75 years old, no joke. in about 10 or 15 years there won´t be a palmira branch. unless....

Yeah the people here are really set on their own religion. We did Abrir la boca (street contacting) a TON this week. But none of them went anywhere. And our investigator, hernan, dropped us because he doens´t want to get married. so we decided to turn our focus on menos activo in the coming weeks. 

Here´s a cool story. So it was like 7:30 and every single plan we had fell thru. like nothing to do. We were way far from the pench and we just were dead tired. So we start walkin and this family pulls up next to us in the car and offered a ride. normally we shouldn´t accept, but they appeared really nice. They drove us back to palmira centro where the pench is and then we got their name, and we´re gonna try to visit them on Wednesday!! it was pretty cool how that worked out. even if it doens´t work out, it was still a tender mercy.

For Thanksgiving we had our feast on Sunday for lunch. We had milanesa, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, carrots, bread, and coke. It was awesome. There wasn´t any pumpkin pie at the store haha. We also have started our christmas plans haha. it´s coming in hot, holy crap.

Yeah so what the work is hard.... if anyone is being taught it´s me... i´m learning super quickly the life of a humble missionary... getting rejected with every single person (except members. they  are awesome.) sucks sometimes but at the end of the day they have their agency. Eventually we´ll find someone ready but we feel for now we need to help the ward as a whole get more youth back coming to church. We will see how this plan works out this week!!!

I think that´s all. I didn´t take any photos this week, but I will next time.

con amor,

Elder Anderson