Hi Family, or at least whats left of it.
It seems like your lives are just as crazy as mine. At least we are united by this common bond. This is what happened to me this week. Monday I bought some Caramelos for Miguel to help him quit smoking. He said he wasn´t going to be home, so we took them to his house, but we ended up staying and teaching him in his daughter. Vanesa is just like him. Doesn´t talk, doesn´t understand, doesn´t really do anything, but she says she likes it. Now I am thinking about teaching the entire family and Baptizing them all! Fwa Hahahahahaha!!!
Tuesday we had a "Zone Capacitation" instead of District Meeting. It was dumb because we had to take two buses to get to the Stake Center, then everybody else came late even though they are closer, then nobody had the keys to get in, then we had to take another bus to go to a different capilla. We wasted so much time. All though I kind of enjoyed it I didn´t really hear anything I haven´t heard before. We finished at 2 ish and got back to our area at 3. Elder Ackerman ran out of Money, so I had to pay the 3 buses back for the both of us. 9 Buses! 20 Mil!
When we got off the bus Elder Ackerman jumped off while the bus was moving. He would have been fine if he was facing forward and if he didn´t plant both of his feet. He didn´t get hurt, but it made me laugh. After Lunch we went to Yamil. He seems like he is doing good now and wants to come back to church. One of his Non-Member friends even sat down for part of the lesson and listened. I noticed that he came after the first prayer and left before the second.
Unfortunately while we were teaching a less active family to help them come back to church the Hna Aguilera showed up and ruined the whole thing with her non-stop tears and non-stop talking.
Wednesday we happen to get lunch from the Flia Morinigo for the first time on the same day that the Priesthood activity was going on. It was a good lunch, but they had Asado at the church and nobody told us about it until after. Later we went to get the clothes and it started to rain. Luckily the clothes didn´t get that wet. Then while we were teaching Miguel and Lidia about the plan of salvation the power went out. We taught the rest by candle light. They said they understood, but I`m not quite sure they did. At least I made it very clear that if You Keep God´s Commandments You Will Be Happy! That was understood by all.
Thursday we went back to Yamil at 3 and from there we just had one lesson right after the other. I liked it because I didn´t have to walk a lot and we didn´t get bored. Next was Felipe a recent convert and we watched "Monte Del Señor" so he could learn about temples. Then we went to Flia Irala on one side of our area then ran all the way to the other side to teach Miguel. We watched "Jose Smith: Profeta de la Restauracíon". We were mostly watching it for Lidia, but their two daughters also watched... At least in Part. Andrea had to take care of her baby and Vanesa had to take care of her puppy that is suicidal. They seemed to always be absent for the most important parts. Lidia liked it though and she said she will pray about all of it.
Friday we had a Mini Miracle at the beginning of the day, so it made me feel better about walking around "De Balde" the rest of the day. Elder Ackerman saw a lady outside and he said that we contacted her once and she said that we could come back but she was never around. So we contacted her and her husband wasn´t there. We were about to just leave her with a Pamphlet and leave and suddenly she says that she has a Book of Mormon that two of her students gave her and she really liked it but when she moved here 2 years ago she lost it. So we gave her a Book of Mormon and read her the last two Paragraphs of the Introduction and invited her to pray about it. She said she will and that we need to come back on a Friday when her husband will be home. I see a Baptism in her Future. She will definitely be a future convert.
Saturday we had Mission Correlation at 6:30 but Charly showed up late. We had an appointment at 7:30 with Miguel, so we just left the Progress Form with the other Elders and left. Miguel was the only one home, so we watched a movie about Revelation. The story of Oliver Cowdery. Miguel has had a hard time with the Prayer and I think this helped him a lot. Since somebody gave us Salad at lunchtime I used ranch and then we bought a pizza to use the rest with. It was really good, but now I´m out of Ranch. Dang. Anyways the Dueña saw that we had ordered a Pizza and she said that she is a Gastronomer (My own invented word for a person who studies gastronomy) and she will cook stuff for us if we tell her in advance and all we have to do is pay for the Ingredients. I wish I knew that sooner. I´ll have to take her up on that.
Sunday was the worst. They called Rodrigo Segovia (a returned missionary) as Ward Mission Leader, but he probably won´t be as good as Charly. It turns out that Charly was never the Ward Mission Leader he just filled in the calling while being 2nd counselor. He was the Most Faithful Ward Mission Leader Ever and it wasn´t even his calling! Next sad thing was the Epic Fail when we tried to watch a movie with Yamil and his friends and other Jovenes. We planned the activity before hand and they even announced it in church, but literaly nobody showed up except for a couple of people that came early to seminary.
Miguel came to church, but he wasn´t home when we passed by at 6. Then as we walked back home on this very disappointing day of nothing we got a call from Elder Call and he says that we might not have a Bishop anymore. Ugh! How are we supposed to work with the ward when there is no Bishop!
I am still happy though, just a little crazy. ;P
Love Ya´ll,
Elder Zachary James Singson
