May 4, 2015

Hey all! Por fin tengo tiempo para escribirles! So quick resumen of my past week (spanglish style)

First off quick story. Elder Santillan and I had contacted this girl named Roxana and we were supposed to have a cita with her the past tuesday. Unfortunately neither one of us could remember where she lived. So we were in that neighborhood looking for her house when we saw this little old guy outside reading his bible. We quickly started talking with him, introduced ourselves, yada yada, and asked about his reading. He told us he always reads the bible everyday because the teachings of his church don't always match up with the things he reads and "Jesus always teaches it better." We kept conversing with him and talked about the great apostasy and basically ended up teaching all of The Restoration right there in the street outside his house. I've never taught an entire lesson in a contact before, but it was really cool.

Wednesday I did divisions with Elder Cortijo. It was interesting because his style of teaching is very different from mine. I feel like I learned a lot though.

Friday I was on divisions again with Elder Wagner, one of our zone leaders. It was insanely stressful. We spent the whole day with the hermana missionaries because one of them is "sick" (She really is sick but it started out super weak and the zone leaders told her to take some medecine but she decided she knew better, didn't do it, and made it worse and she still doesn't do anything we tell her so I have a hard time feeling bad for her) and also they've been fighting a lot there so we had to try and play peace maker. I learned two things that day. 1- I never want to be zone leader in Quillabamba. 2- I absolutely love my companion. Elder Santillan is far from perfect but we get along really well. It's funny how watching other people struggle with that made me realize how blessed I am.

And Sunday we went to talk to the branch president, as we were leaving we asked if there was anything we could do for him and he said "More than what you're already doing?" Yes! I'm actually helping in the branch! There is no better feeling as a missionary then when you realize all the effort acutally helps people. :)

Hope you enjoyed the ramble. Hoping to get a good one out next week too. 6 days and I talk to my family! Woot!

Talk to you all next week,

Jeremy