Wellllll the rama shrunk again :/ Its a pretty back and forth thing. And no investigators came to church. Whooo as I write this I start to realize it was a harder week than I thought!! ahha But on the bright side an inactive lady that hadn't been to church in something like 8 years came yesterday! That was the little bright spot of my week. And all the members were super loving and kind and this lady came up to us like three seperate times during the church blocks to say thank you... Pretty cool!
THE SWEET TARTS CAME!!!! I´ll take a pic soon but they came on Wednesday during zone meeting and every missionary in the island was like uhhh what's that and I already knew so I didnt open it until I was in the car so people wouldnt steal them all haha. We had american food this week too!!!! The Buhlers are so awesome and they feed us so well! We went to a place called VIPS, which is pretty much a spanish super expensive TGI Fridays and it was amazing!! Hamburgers, french fries, and milkshakes :)
Oh and I can say I had a 60 year old companion for like a half our!! haha it was kind of awkward actually. We had to split a pair so we could all fit in the cars and of course they split the poor Telderes who nobody else ever sees haha So I was in a car with Elder Buhler and a ton of hemanas, and I felt sooo weird for like the half hour cuz my comp got lost and I was just sitting at the restaurant haha and ya... You never know how weird it is to be alone until you have lived with some other guy your age for like 6 months and then you are alone for like a bit haha I'm weird. That pobably made no sense!
Hmm What else happened this week! I went downto Vecindario to be with the district leader and it was fun! We made chile rellenos and talked to a TON of people and got awesome work done, and then I taught ANOTHER english calss there haha I might as well have am elementary teaching degree for how much english I teach nowadays haha But it's growing on me little by little. Know any language learning games that would help grown adults learn basic englsih?? That would be awesome!!
I made beans again this week and they were evern better! With potatos this time too!! And I made spanish rice, but they don't sell chicken broth here so it was kind of flavorless! But was nice and red!!! Oh the random skills I'm learning as a missionary!
Hmm another thing that idk why I forgot to mention a while back that you guys might find cool!!! I taught a leeson in a high school the other week! How weird is that!! Like I thought it was illegal or something! But this young woman in our rama like is a super good member missionary and her teacher asked her to give an HOUR presentation on the church and her beliefs in their class! That's crazy to ask of a 16 year old but anyways... She was smart and decided to invite the missionaries along too! We were origionally just gonna answer questiosn but then I think everyone just wanted to talk to us because we are two foreigners with different accents haha and we ended up just teaching for like 45 minutes! It went way good! And now all the high school kids in the city know us and say hi to us on the street even if they dont want to learn from us at all haha But man it was wa awkward leaving the high school building, we just had like a herd of short people surrounding us wanting to know who we were and why we were all dressed nice and random things like that haha So ya we had a lesson with 30 high school kids! Everyone else in our island thinks it's super cool! haha
That´s cool that they changed it to a womens conference I heard it's all girls from 8 and up? Thas a lot! Sorry I don't have many cool stories this week. They had transfers this weekend and I'm staying. They changed my title to a senior companion as well which I don think means much except that after Elder Lopez leaves I might have someone younger than me as a companion! Craziness! Well I hope you guys are having a great week! Enjoy conference!! I think I might have to go up north to las palmas to watch it, and it will surely be in only spanish haha lucky me we´ll see how much I can understand! Btw when is Easter I have no idea! Next week? That is pobably something good to know! Love you mom!!! Hope you have a great week with the banquet and everything!!!
Nathan
P.S. Oh ya a spiritual thought!!! I found one I LOVED in Alma the other day! Idk why I've never heard anyone use it before. Ok turn to Alma 5!!! This is a crazy chapter with all sorts of good stuff and good questions to ask yourself. It talks first to people that aren't a part of the church and how they should change their ways! Then Alma tuns to those that are already members and asks a good question we should all ask ourselves from time to time. Read vers 26!! ...... I only have it in spanish, but it pretty much sas that we have already been converted(or if not see the 25 verses before) and now that we have felt a change of heart and supported the church and loved our savior, we have to ask oursleves if we can still feel those same strong feelings we felt when we first were converted to the church. Its a good question to kind of assess where one is in there endure to the end process, since we´ve all already been baptized. The next 5 verses or more I don't remember talks about things we do that make our feelings of conversion more faint, such as pride, being mean to people, teasiong people and taking advantage etc... And these are the little things one must fix to be able to always have their testimony as strong and perfect as when they first recieved it!!! Kind of a thought more directed at people who are already members and I have never used it so I don't really have anything fine tuned or well explained, but I hope you like the scriptures!! Love you mom!!!
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