There
was an earthquake this week! We were walking up the stairs in the
church and all of a sudden the whole building started shaking. It was
prolly for like 20 seconds so it was kinda neat.
Also
I gave my first blessing yesterday! AND IT WAS IN SPANISH! I was
totally freaking out and it was the worst blessing ever that didn´t make
sense but that´s ok. I gave it to a girl who was sick. Her name is
maricielo. Then I accidentally broke one of their cups from which we
were drinking inca cola. So that was awkward but they laughed it off. We
taught them about patriarchal blessings because they have some recent
converts in their family and we want them to get there´s soon.
We
got a pensionist for dinner. He lives in the house below us and he´s a
chef. He made us dinner last night for our pension and it was so so
good. He gave us some like pancake omelette things with spinich. Also he
gave us rice and potatoes and some meat mixed with tomatoe and stuff.
It was v good.
Everything is going really well
here, hopefully we´ll have some baptisms soon. We have one scheduled for
the end of this month and like 6 others in December. So hopefully that
will start happening soon.
I feel like my
spanish is good but it kinda depends on the day. I study spanish a ton
because I want to know ALL the words so I can talk to Nancy´s parents
about things other than the gospel. I consider myself fluent in the
gospel now. I understand everything in the lessons spoken by both
investigators and my companion. I´ve always been teaching but it´s been
getting easier I feel.
This week we went to
teach a family in the home of a member. The family consists of a mom and
her 4 kids. There is no father that lives with them. They are very poor
and live in like the edge of town in a place we call the Portales. We
knocked on the door and a girl who lives there answered and talked to my
companion for a minute. Then my companion asked me if I understood and I
said no. Then he told me not to be surprised if I see something weird. I
was like oh crap, what happened. We went inside and the mom´s face was
totally scratched up and swollen and she was crying with her baby on her
lap. The baby was fine, but the mom's face was really messed up.
Apparently she had seen her neighbor robbing someone, and when the
someone asked her if she had seen anything she told them that she saw
her neighbor robbing them. Her neighbor ended up finding out and went
over and attacked her. We spent some time this week finding somewhere new
for her to live with her kids because it´s too dangerous to live by her
neighbor any more. We gave her a blessing before we left. We´ve given
like 6 blessing, which is a ton. We teach families that literally don´t
have food and they have babies and stuff so I don´t understand how they
live, but I guess they figure it out.
Anyways I gotta go,
I love you!
Elder Mitchell
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