Well this week was filled with a lot of drama that I wont be able to fully express the details of what happened. Well we have had some controversy in the our zone between the elders, and it has been kind of taxing on me and my companion as we have to deal with these matters and usually ends with the missionaries disliking us. It all started with interviews this past week where my comp elder teves and we had to put an informe together of how the zone is doing and how each companionship is working. Our situation is that there are many elders in our zone that don´t work, literally dont work and stay in there apartment for most of the day, and some elders that have filthy mouths and others that just push the boundaries on every solitary rule or norm. So we put everything in an informe and advised president in interviews. Well now, every elder that has been behaving out of line is cold with us now. They continue talking behind our backs and just being very immature. But I have learned a lot from this. I was reading a scripture in the BoM this week that comforted me and helped me stay motivated.
2 And it came to pass that I said unto them that I knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.
Obviously, I wouldnt consider these elders ¨the wicked¨ but this scripture made me think of this situation that I am in. Those who dont keep the commandments and do things like they should... when someone corrects them, they take the truth to be hard because it requires change.
This week we were able to have a couple really good lessons. A couple weeks ago I contacted a guy with an elder in a plaza who was super interested in learning more about the Book of Mormon, and it turned out that he lived in the hermana´s area. So we passed the reference to them. Well this week we talked to him at a branch activity and he told us that he wanted us elders to teach him because he lives by himself with his elderly mother and he doesn't want his neighbors to make assumptions when the sisters come over to teach him. haha so We taught him this week and it turns out that he studied 5 years in a Baptist seminary and was about to become a pastor in a Baptist church. But he ended up turning down the offer because the church leaders told him that he had to break up with his girl friend he had and go live with a girl from their church.... kinda weird and some other things happened and he wasn't able to because pastor. And now he is at ends and has been reading the book of mormon that a member gave to him last month and is super interested. The lesson was one of the funniest lessons that I have had in my mission because the dude is super intelligent and knows a lot about the gospel and so we dont have to dumb down church terms and we can explain things without him getting confused. He is actually progression. His name is Federico so I´ll keep you updated on him. ALso, this week, we were able to find and have our first lesson with Ezequiel, the dude that picked me up from the port of the river when I got transferred here. There is a pic of him in my first week here. He gave me his address because I told him I would make him a Banana bread as a way of saying ¨thanks¨ for picking me up and taking me into town. So I think this week at our next lesson I will have to make that banana bread. But during our first lesson, we started out talking about fishing because he loves to fish. He thought it was crazy that I used to go ICE fishing with dad.... just hard for them to understand cold haha. But then we introduced the BOM and he was super intrigued. So I am hopeful for him!
But that was my week. This is the last week of the transfer so I will be writing on tuesday next week!
