How´s everyone doing. Dont be alarmed by the subject of this email... i didnt know what to put, So i copied and pasted one of the captions of one of my photos.
I have decided to write in the mornings now... so sorry if that is inconvenient for anyone. But this week was great. We had divisions, searched for a new place to live, aaaand Joaquin got baptized.
Joaquin is a kid we found by using some member lists that we got printed off. He is part of a less active family and hadnt been baptized yet. He is 10, so we taught him and his dad over the past 2/3 weeks and his dad was able to baptize his son. It all turned out great, a lot of the family showed up with plenty of members. And yesterday he got confirmed a member. I was in divisions with Elder Hannah, that was super fun because we were in the same district in the MTC, it is kinda cool because we started together and we will now end together in the same zone. Transfers is next week and we will most likely stay in the same zone. But there is going to be a lot of change in the zone... so it will be excited to see where everyone goes and who comes.
We have been searching for a new apartment for a couple weeks now because we have to be out of our current apartment by the end of this month. So we have been looking a many apartments but we havent had much luck because the majority are super far from our area and/or they are super crappy and run down. But this past friday we found a place that is super nice and close to our area. SO we will most likely be moving.
ALso on Friday night, the other branch here in goya had a movie night,and I happened to be in divisions so I was able to watch Coco for the 2nd time. And Elder Rubisch made some homemade donuts to share. Then last night, the other branch threw a going away party for Elder Fernandez who is in his last week in the mission. There were a bunch of people.
This is kind of a boring email... but I just remembered a really funny experience my comp and I had this week while looking for new apartments. As usual, we have to find real estate agencies to go to and ask what places they have to rent. But this particular night, this older man let us in and we started talking. From the beginning I could tell this guy didnt have much interest in talking about places to live. I would say something along the lines of, we are looking for some in centro with 2 bedrooms. he would respond with something like, ¨Oh yeah we have plenty of places in centro, but look, my son studied medicine in the states...¨ and would go on about his son. I mean, props to him, I mean, if I lived here I would be proud of my son if he studied medicine in the states. But the conversation turned for the better when he started asking us about, well us.. mormones. And he was really intrigued. The dude is super intelligent, he is 75 years old, a retired pharmacist and is studying to get a law degree. He told us that he doesnt want his mind to get old and slow, so he decided to keep his mind up to speed, he would study law. After talking about the book of mormon, he told us that, despite his busy study schedule, he would dedicate himself to read 10 pages a day from the BOM. haha Usually we try to get people here to read a couple verses over the space of a couple days, but considering the type of person we were talking too(pharmacist, owns a real estate agency, and studying law) he has a different work ethic than 90% of the people we come into contact with. But, unfortunately, they didnt have any apartments that we could rent. But we will be sure to pass by and teach him some more.
But that was the week. I hope you all enjoy your monday and the rest of the week!
I will be writing on tuesday of next week!
Elder Keicher
