This week went by pretty slow for a change. November 19, Monday we did a bunch of contacting because the majority of our investigators have been cancelling like crazy and don't seem interested anymore. We went to teach Ruby and Jose and we taught them The Restoration, on the side of the street, while a bunch of kids were playing soccer. And Jose was baptized like 5 years ago, but he wasn't confirmed, because he didn't attend church again a single time after that. So we asked our mission president and he said we need to rebaptize him and then have him confirmed. So that is planned to happen this Saturday, Jose and his sister Ruby.
On Wednesday , Elder Stevens joined our companionship until his companion returned from Mexico City. So, I had my first experience of a trio companionship for a day and a half. We also went to practice singing for the meeting on Thursday, in which our zone was going to sing to recognize Elder Pino, of the seventy, who came to visit the Mission with his wife. I also received my Christmas package from my parents, which was a pull up bar that doesn’t require a door frame, since the doors here don't have door frames. I set it up, and it works amazing!!! Later that day, we hopped on a bus and headed for Chihuahua for the meeting the next day. And we slept in the assistants house again and it was insane like always. I didn't get to bed till 12 AM because it was so loud and there was no space to sleep, until I just stole my companions bed haha.
Thursday, we got up at 6 AM to get ready for the meeting and to practice singing again before it started. The meeting was about 5 hours long and we learned quite a bit. For example, our mission gets 1 baptism for every 10 Investigators, 25 baptisms per month, which is only half a baptism for each companionship each month. And he set a goal to get 2 baptisms per month, per companionship. After the meeting, we hopped back on the bus and returned to Parral.
Friday, we went back to work and the eleven people that we planned to teach were unavailable. But along the way, we taught 2 new people that we weren't planning on teaching.
Saturday, we contacted for most of the day since 12 people we had planned on teaching weren't there. Comida that day was Discada, which is chopped up hot dogs, sausage, ham, and hamburger in tacos and it was soo good and I had so many. One of the contacts name that day was Elder, and when we told and showed that our names were Elder too, he couldn’t believe it haha. Oh and as we were walking back from comida, I saw Sotero, the crazy guy and called him out and so he stopped his motorcycle and he met and started saying a bunch of crazy stuff to the other 2 missionaries that were with us. And when he started spitting on them, my companion and I started laughing so hard because of their faces haha. After he left, they thought he was the craziest guy too and they wanted to know who that guy was. Sotero also told us that Vicky, doesn't like when we invite her to church and talk about Joseph Smith.
Sunday, we went to church with Jose and Ruby again and 3 Missionaries gave talks, including me. And after Sacrament Meeting, there was no 2nd hour. Apparently, if there's not very members at church, we just don't have 2nd hour. The Sacrament meetings here are very very different than back at home. It takes like 3 minutes for the whole ordinance and the pieces of bread are huge, like 10 times the size of the Blackhawk Ward Sacrament bread. Anyways, after church, we had our food and then went to a correlation meeting with the branch mission leader. After that, we had been invited to a members birthday, so we went to that and had even more food. So that was a fun way to celebrate my 19th birthday haha. Have a great week everyone!
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