Hola Familia!
Este semana fue fantástico tenemos mucho lesiones y nuestro meta es 5 mas fechas bautismal.
Monday
We had a great p-day last week and we had a few citas (appointments) en the night we visited once family that was a recent convert and his mother and grandmother are not members. But they came to our open chapel but the coolest part is the grandmother can’t walk and we have never ever seen her leave her wheel chair that she has been in the whole time we have been here. She said she wanted to go to our open house, so her daughter took her. It was so amazing getting to teach them about baptism in all white cloths in front of the font. They had a list of questions about baptism and we spent the whole time there talking about their concerns and what they need to do to prepare and it was so amazing! I just don’t know how we would baptize such fragile old woman! She can’t stand on her on but I suppose the lord will provide a way! On top of it all I got a call from one of my best cousins in the world elder Kofford, he called that night to make sure I was doing ok!
Tuesday
These next few days all started out really early, we had to go to the terminal for the other elders coming through and coming to our area and we had to babysit them and say goodbye to leaving and coming elders and hermanas. We started at 1 in the morning and had to be there until 4. A good chunk of time away from bed! Elder pitcher, one of my good friends in my zone, got transferred which is sad and 2 other hermanas got transferred. After we left and returned to bed we had a few lesson today mostly pass-by’s for contacts we previously made and then we got a call that they hermanas left some supplies for open chapel’s. We had to go get it! The one thing they needed most was a big banner that we had bolted to our building but we only had my Leatherman that I brought with me. We had about an hour till there bus was leaving! Haha, so we had one elder stand on my shoulders and using my little tool for almost a whole hour try to unbolt a sign and some guy passed and asked if we were stealing it! Haha, not a very good look for elders stealing a big sign with Jesus on it! haha
Wednesday
This was a really slow day, we tried to pass-by for more contacts and with little to no success, it was really discouraging. And then we had a member that is about our age come with us to go meet some of our investigators that are also similar ages! When we got there all three houses we wanted to visit weren’t home. And then we went to go to the ward meeting that night and about 30 min after they called to tell us it’s canceled. So Wednesday was simple not our day.
Thursday
We had to go on split at 3 in the morning cause the zone leader needed to go to Bahia and not his comp so we once again went to the terminal and picked him up. Then went home and proceeded to do service for the day, which was cutting a field of grass just like last week previous then we went to go visit some of our investigators and contacts.For dinner that night we had hot dogs on pizza bread with tomato sauce! Hahaha! We are chief extraordinaire.
Friday
We had lessons with our investigators that want to get baptized and it went well, she had some doubts and worried about if she was getting in to a church to fast which is very understandable and so we addressed these issues. After that we visited another boy that we invited to be baptized Saturday but he just graduated from school and apparently after you are done with school you decide to question everything. Which is good I suppose but the funny thing is he didn’t question anything about the church he only questioned about the earth being round! Yeah crazy, so after a quick science lesson he felt a little better and then we departed.
Saturday
We had divisions and I spent the day in another area and it was really fun. We walked all over the place and we had some lesson with there investigators and we had an Asada at one of the member houses and it was super good! Then we walked all they way from the opposites side of their area to ours to switch. It was like I was on a backpacking trip with how much we walk out here everyday!
Sunday
We had a good Sunday. We had lots of good lessons and watched some videos from the church, which got translated recently so the ward was super excited to finally see a new video! Haha! But it was good we ate with a member and then we visited one of our investigators in the night and it went really well he asked about how God can talk to us and how he can help us through prayer.
Love you all,
Elder Vance
