On Tuesday we had a noche de hogar (family home evening) with the Familia Arenas. It was really great, and we shared the new ha nacido un salvador (a savior is born) video. So yeah it was all great except one thing. Elder Lybbert was pulling up the video and it was going really slow. I had my naipes (face cards) in my scriptures and decided to do a magic trick. It was like my best one, too. Then Hermano Arenas proceeded to pull up the teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith and how face cards are ´an abomination´ and evil in the sight of god. So yeah haha cane was dropped on me for face cards but yeah. just kinda funny.
So that family that picked us up are really cool. We visited the dad. He is a very faithful guy for the evangelico church. But he is super friendly and awesome and treated us like friends and stuff. Idk if he´ll want to listen to the message. But that´s what we´re gonna try, to visit him and incorporate our teachings. The reason he´s so faithful is he´s had a near death experience with cancer and he says his faith saved him.
This week we had intercambios. And since Elder Lybbert is District Leader, we do it with the zone leaders. So i went with Elder Willard. He´s pretty cool and way experienced with the mission. It was good to learn a few things. And before he was zone leader, he was in Cementista B like i was (2 transfers before me). it was pretty fun to talk about the area and the members and stuff. He´s from las vegas and has 5 months left in the mission. he also served as mission secretary in the offices a while ago.
Friday we had zone conferece, which was awesome. (it was in Mendoza cetro where our old stake center was. so we felt like bosses cause we knew where everything was.) We have a goal to get 50 baptisms this month. President goates is upping the ante. We pretty much have no problems with being obedient so he didn´t drop the cane. He talked about hope, and how it applies to finding people. And gratitude how it helps with the work. So saturday rolled around and we were pretty pumped. We were searching for an antiguo investigator and we found the house, but the family´s sister´s family moved in. and they seemed interested so they let us in and we taught the first lesson!!!! mainly the mom is interested so we hope she´s reading the book of mormon!!! So yeah the lesson ended at 1:00 but that creates a problem. On Saturdays we have to be in the pench at 1 cause our lunch comes at 1. (a member pays a chef to bring us a yummy lunch.) so we RAN back after the lesson and arrived at like 1:10. and we were sure we missed it. But, we still had hope. So we wait til 1:30 and still nothing. Still had hope tho. And right as we just about threw in the towel she got there and all was well. Hope goes a long way.
We also found some younger people to teach. School is ending here, and the youth are often in their houses. we found 2 seventeen ish year olds in different places that seemed pretty interested. So like I said, the train´s starting to roll here in palmira. A little work (or a lot) goes a long way!!!! hopefully something comes of it and we can strenghten the ward!!!
Anyway I think that´s it. We´re working quite a bit and things are going good. So yeah have a good week and you guys are in my prayers!!!!!
Love, Elder Anderson
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| classy photo after church. |
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| our thanksgiving dinner. milanesa, corn, carrots, mashed potatoes, bread. coke. yeah. |
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| The zone. from left, top... Willard y Sanchez (ZLs) Carroll y Keyes (dad and son (training)) Puyol y Backstrom (porteño and dying canadian) Lybbert y Anderson (greeny fire) Bautista y Sahleen (hermanas) the Goateses, and the asistentes to the president (Vallecillo y Cahoon) they are not in the zone, they just were in the picture. there is another set of married missionaries (the rodgers) who left the conference early. #SanMartín #SmallestZonebyFar |
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