Here's me and him after lunch today. Yes, I am rocking the sandals. And my $1.50 shirt.
Stuff happened this week so that's awesome! My companion and Elder Purcell went home this week! R.I.P. Elders! I got my new companion! His name is Elder Matamoros, from Managua, Nicaragua! He`s a good guy and we're gonna get some work done this change(transfer)!
We have been contacting a ton this week and found some really awesome people to teach. Probably about 4 that are really "pilas" (awesome, reliable) as we say.
We had a super weird day on Friday. On Thursday we met a guy on the street and he said that he wanted to pass by our house and share something with us. That's odd, but okay cool. Well he actually did on Friday. We ended up going on our porch, he asked if we could start with a prayer. Thinking we would talk about the gospel we agree and I offered the prayer. What does he do next? Whipped out a 4Life product booklet. For 15 minutes he tried to explain to us about some miracle health powders from Utah. Then he moved on to the pyramid scheme and tried to convince us to be salesmen with him. Kinda bugged me, I wont lie. So I told him who we are, what we do and that we really aren't the people he's looking for. My companion told him to finish so he talked for another 25 mins, still trying to get us to join him with all the points, prizes, and levels in the market networking.
Later my comp told me that I macheted the guy pretty hard. I didn't think so but maybe it's just a difference in culture.
Directly after that odd encounter we go to a members house. They had two chickens that they wanted to kill and eat so my companion volunteered us to do it. He did it super clean and professionally. Mine was pretty bad. I really made a mess. Lets just say that they offered me another white shirt for the day because mine had a lot of chicken blood on it... Fun experience though! See the pics!
We were contacting that morning and ended up giving a blessing to an old lady minutes after meeting her. She asked us to come in and pray for her health. So we explained what it was and she had faith in it. We`ll go back soon to see how she is.
Yesterday was fast sunday and I may or may not have broken my fast 3 times by accident. People offer a drink or snack and I forgot! But I kept my fast going anyway! Not sure how that plays out. During the testimony meeting, little William went up and in his tiny high pitched voice shared his testimony. It just melted my heart! He teared up and finished his testimony cause he couldn't talk! After church we gave the sacrament to an old blind man named Victor. Afterwards he was saying a closing prayer and halfway through started crying in gratitude. He was so happy to receive the sacrament and to be able to renew his covenants. It really made me think for sure.
Little William and Elder Purcell!
Side Note: It's normal out here to tell people they're getting fat, so yeah I got told I am getting fat! Don't they know that it is still BULKING season and its all muscle? Jokes, I am getting fat! Gonna have to hit the gym a bit harder!!!
Its been a great week out here! Getting HOT again though!
Have a groovy week everybody!
PICTURES!
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