*This letter was from last week (May 2); I'm so sorry I didn't post it sooner!
Hey family and friends!
Hope you had a great week! Here's my week
Monday - We did our morning studies, wrote emails, did some shopping,
cleaned the house, etc. It was a relaxing P-day! That night we had a
lesson with the Tamayo family--they're a part member family--and the
wife cooks some GOOD Mexican food. And she told us whenever we don't
have someone to eat with we can just go over to her house because
"Siempre tenemos comida aquí." She is the best!
Tuesday - I woke up on Tuesday with a pretty bad cold. I felt really
tired all day but I made it. We taught Fabian after our morning
studies! We had a good lesson with him about the law of chastity and
the word of wisdom. After that we had lunch and then went out tracting
in the trailer park! It was my first time and it was actually sorta
fun! We also had a lesson with Hermana Andrade about the godhead--she
had a lot of confusion about who was who and so we spent the whole
lesson reading scriptures to try and help her understand. It was a
successful lesson! Now she just needs to follow through with the
invitations we are giving her...
Wednesday - we had another lesson with Fabian, came home to each lunch
and finish our studies, then went to our ward mission leaders house so
that my companion could work on some stuff for college. After that we
went to the trailer park and did some more tracting, and then went to
dinner. I'm a little sad because they just changed our eating schedule
to make it so that we're eating with the English wards now. It's good
because we'll get to meet more people, but sad because it reduces the
amount of Spanish we get to speak. After dinner we contacted some
people we haven't seen in a while, then had a lesson with the recently
baptized Hernandez family. A lot of biking, a lot of walking. It was
an exhausting day!
Thursday - We had lunch with the Posso family! They are in our ward
and recently moved here from Columbia. Our investigator Fabian also
happens to be living with them. They taught us how to make some
Columbian plátanos fritos (fried plantains)!They were pretty good!
They were similar to the ones Sister Ovalles makes (pero yo creo que
los de hermana Ovalles son mejores;). After that we went home to do
weekly planning. It took 3 hours, but it felt like 6. It was rough.
After that we walked to our dinner appointment and talked to a couple
people on the way. Dinner was delicious. It was a full blown meal with
pork chops, mashed potatoes, corn, homemade rolls and just about every
vegetable you can imagine. After dinner we visited a couple less
actives who want to come back to church but can't because of work or
other reasons.
Friday - We had district meeting! We talked about the importance of
the Book of Mormon and about teaching the repentance and baptism. My
companion got a recent convert to come and talk to us about her
conversion story. It was pretty cool! She and her husband were baptist
ministers before converting and they said that reading the Book of
Mormon was the turning point for them. We had district lunch after the
meeting (free subway! Benefits of Utah missions:) and then went home
to do language study. We were supposed to have a lesson with Fabian,
but he cancelled. Jose Andrade also cancelled on us, so we talked to
his mom for a while and then walked around to try to visit other
people in the trailer park and around our area. Cancellations were
pretty much the theme for Friday.
Saturday - A lot of cancellations on Saturday too. And a lot of
walking. We spent some time at the church in the family history center
so my companion could do some stuff for college, and then we visited a
senior couple in our district to see if they had some tools I could
use to fix a loose pedal on the bike I've been using. One awesome
thing about Saturday though was that we got fed by a random family who
didn't know us! We went to go contact someone that we hadn't
seen/heard from in a while, but when we knocked on the door he was
supposedly asleep! So we thought it would be a no-go, but the family
(who we had never even seen before) ended up inviting us in for
dinner! It was shrimp and rice and this Guatemalan vegetable. It was
delicious! And of course we shared the restoration with them
afterward. To finish the day off we went to visit the bishop and talk
to him about some of the people we've been working with. He dropped us
off at someone's house but they weren't home, so we had to walk all
the way back across town to our apartment.
Sunday - Sunday was the best day of the week! I really enjoyed church.
We had a long ward leadership council but it was okay because it was
in Spanish! And it was good practice for me. I think I loved Sunday
cause we were really busy! I don't think we had any appointments fall
through and it just felt like a really solid day. We did some reports,
visited a lot of less actives, had a great Venezuelan dinner
(something called arrepas),
Love you all!
Love,
Elder Baxter
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