October 30, 2017

Drunks, pass along cards and questions

Hola familia y amigos! Como andan con ustedes? Sometimes I feel like I need to write just a little bit in Spanish just so every single word isn't underlined in red so if you can't understand that just throw it in Google translate and it will probably mess up what it actually means but if you could find out what it means you'd realize it's super anti-climatic anyways so yeah....

Um it was another pretty basic week but really good too. I guess one of the highlights would be one day we were doing service for a member digging up tree roots (which felt pointless but we got blessings so oh well) and while we were digging this dude came by riding his bike. He was so drunk he fell off his bike and we had to go pick him up and he just laid in the middle of the road until someone called the police to get him. So yeah, that was kinda fun I guess.

We had divisions with the zone leaders this week again. They're super good guys and so that's always fun to have them come spend the day with us. We got pretty bored right before bed so we had a pass along card throwing competition. What resulted was we literally threw every single pass along card we own (which is a TON) at a balloon in an effort to pop it. We succeeded eventually but made a huge mess so there was a trade off I guess!!

On more of a spiritual note, we had a really good experience with Talia and Angel and everyone in la familia Loca. I dunno how much I've wrote you all about them but pretty much they are this ginormous family that is loud and proud and has pretty much every problem imaginable but we work a lot with them and they're really good friends. We had a lesson with them this week that was super powerful. We came by and they were all outside drinking mate so we sat around and joined em. What made the lesson so good was they had lots of questions and we just had more of a conversation than a lesson and we all learned so much more that way. So if you ever need to learn something, learn to ask questions and search for the answers. This gospel is built on asking questions and then finding the answers through God. 

Con amor

Elder Nixon

This is actually the only picture I took this week which is sad. It's what we made for dinner one night. What it is is a cake made out of egg and potatoes and yeah it's weird.