On Tuesday we had a training from
the president. He talked about the importance of not focusing on the numbers
and remembering our purpose (inviting others to come unto Christ). And he
talked about the importance of our teaching because it affects them for the
rest of eternity.
We also got to hear from his wife
and she always talks about health and the rules. She talked about the
importance of making good eating habits here in the mission so we can eat well
the rest of our life, and talked about the importance of taking care of our
intestines.
The taurumaras are very interesting,
they always ask for money. The other week, we were in a house in a lesson and
one little taurumara boy walked into the house and asked for money. He walked
right up to me and got in my face not saying anything and had the bill of his
hat pressed against my forehead. It was funny just because of how weird it
was.
Later on Tuesday night we went to Favella
with a member who drove us (Favela is like a little ranch like ten fifteen minutes
outside of Anahuac) to visit a recent convert and to visit a reference. The
recent convert took us and showed us around her garden and was talking to us
about the importance of self-sufficiency and growing your own food, she is
really into agriculture. She also has this little museum in the back of her
house with a bunch of things like mammoth bones, sabretooth tiger teeth,
petrified wood and crystals and fossils and rocks I got to hold a meteorite
that she had and that was pretty cool. After that we went to the reference and
he was drunk out of his mind, and I couldn’t understand a word he said.
On Wednesday, we were walking to our
area that morning and we met the sisters, they told us that they saw our
investigator smoking and that he tried to hide the cigarette when he saw them. We
helped them carry their water jugs back to their house and on the way we saw
the investigator (his name is Juan Manuel) and we talked to him a bit trying to
encourage him. After that we went dropped the water jugs off at the sister’s
house because we were going to visit the investigator later.
After that we went looking for a
reference that we got from a member and we found a less active member that is
really nice. Her husband is catholic and actually pretty cool and we think he
is going to progress fast. They gave us some juice and some pancakes with jam
on the way out. The pancakes looked so good but we couldn’t eat them because of
the rules so we took them over to Juan Manuel, that is when we found him
smoking. He tried to hide it when he saw us, then he threw it away, we then had
a lesson with him on the word of wisdom and commandments and the
atonement.
That night the sisters called us
elders because they had a 'rat' in their house. They called the district leader
but we had to go because there has to be four elders to be able to enter their
house. We walked over there and found them huddled together scared to death of
the 'rat'. We went over to where they said it was and we found it under a
bucket and in a sticky trap. The zone leader, that was there with us because he
was on divisions with Elder Babb, stuck a broom to the trap and chased the
sisters around with it and then threw it away and we left.
Thursday not much happened. I worked
with the zone leader in my area. He is a big soccer fan and loves the Italian
team, he is from Ecuador he is one of the people who played soccer with us the
other week.
Friday we took some medicine (I
think it is called Veerox) to cleanse our systems of parasites.
Saturday we went to a bakery and
bought some doughnuts. I bought an empanada filled with pineapple jelly and a
classic doughnut bar filled with flan, and a French bread roll. They were all
really good the bakeries are so good here.
After that we went to meet with Juan
Manuel. We went to his house and he wasn’t there we called him and he said he
was at the park. We were worried that he was smoking or something but luckily
we found that he hadn’t smoke since the last time that we had caught him. He
said he felt horrible and sick because he hadn’t but he was happy because of
his progress and the encouragement we gave him. He was talking with a couple of
old guys sitting on a railing and we got talking with all of them and invited
everyone to church. Even Juan Manuel was inviting and trying to get them to
come.
After those guys left we sat and
talked with Juan Manuel. We got talking about fruit and he took us to a store
to buy us some grapes because we said we liked grapes. I felt bad and didn’t
want any because he is really poor and doesn’t have a lot. But he insisted. He
bought my comp a mango and both of us like 5 oranges and then a candy bar
thing. It was really cool to see his charity, and my comp said that ya it was
tough to take his stuff but he will be blessed a ton for it.
On Sunday we went for Juan Manuel to
bring him to church but when we got to his house he wasn’t there. We called him
and he was already on his way to the church. we ended up catching up to him and
he wanted to buy us a soda, he didn’t because we told him we couldn’t drink it
as missionaries but it was cool that he was so willing to share. He still hadn’t
smoked and was even feeling better, it is really cool to see that he has gone
for so long without smoking because he has been smoking since he was 14 and he
is like 50 something. He is progressing so fast and it has been cool to see how
happy he has been.
Glad to hear that the weather is so
good for you guys over there. We have been dying of heat during the day, the
sun is crazy strong already and it is only February.
Love Elder Blanchard
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