Met a General Authority! And Cultural Activities w/Sipe Sipe Branch

Elder Montoya came to the mission and we had 2 conferences with him after our normal conference, so we were in the church all week we didnt do much else

There was a cultural dance activity and my old branch Sipe Sipe was there :D they had more people come than us and we have a ward... its probably my fave area

It was super cool listening to Elder Montoya, i forgot my notes so ill write about it next week but yeah 

He shoots doctrine

A dude was sitting in his taxi, on his phone on facebook, doing absolutely nothing right in front of his house on this street so i go to the window to try talking to him and he looks at me and tells me hes busy lol

A missionary went home so we had a farewell party for him, we went to our area cause there are members with a restaurant, they gave 14 missionaries a free plate of food, andthe next night they were suuuuuuper busy, they sold a bajillion plates, so blessings for feedingthe missionaries

Ah Tampico!

So i thought we had a lot of investigators but like none of them progress so not really

We have a "ward" but yesterday there were 34 members there

Went on 2 splits this week

In one of the areas I went to for splits they average at least a baptism a month

Our area has had 6 in the last 24 months

We should hopefully have a baptism tho, just the moms side of the fam is super catholic and shes kinda scared to tell them so she might not even invite them to the baptism...

Funny moment of the week: The pensionistas 3 little daughters are suuuuper crazy, within the hour that we spend with them to eat, they go from being best friends to worst enemies like 10 times, so the other day they started whining and crying and the mom was getting upset and everyone just hated eachother except one daughter who was happy to have tampico and so she has her little cup in both her hands and takes a sip and is like ahhhhh, tammmmpico! all happy and smiley, in the midst of all hell breakng loose it was pretty funny

Proposal of the Year

The good thing bout not having a lot of investigators is you really cherish the few you have

Speaking of investigators we have a golden family, they're not married yet and that was the only obstacle, i didn't know how i was gonna talk to them about it, kind of a hard topic to discuss but it went super well

We were talking about their baptism cause they have a date, and i was like yeah you have to have an interview, he asked what the questions were so i showed him a little paper he's just like oh so do we have to be married? and im like wellll yeah, and he's like cool we'll do it, we've been needing to get married and needed something to push us, then he looks at his girl and in english is like "are you ready?" she's like "yehs" that is the proposal of the year

A drunk guy tried to get on his knees in the middle of the street and worship us

Theres a lot of funny things that happen in the week but they're kinda hard to explain and not funny unless you're there, like for example: 

We have another investigator who only speaks Quechua, like not any Spanish at all, and so we obviously don't talk to him much, and we have to go teach him with a translator, he's an old guy who is pretty serious but i found out yesterday he's got a sense of humor lol, i walk into priesthood and he says something along the lines of "zxcmoqwdmxlzksd" in Quechua and some people start laughing and im like what did he say and someone translates, he said "good morning señorita (ma,am)" You should've seen the smile on that guys face haha he's hilarious his name is Ignacio

Another guy after talking about the BoM with him was like wow, do other churches know about this? I was like yeah he's like why don't they believe in it then that doesn't make sense, and i agreed, no it doesn't

Thats all

Gar

Baptism This Week

Beruska Ticona

Pensionista's kids

at the doctor

So we got a baptism this week, Beruska Ticona, she's cool, she was the only investigator here when I got here and she was pretty much already ready so we didn't do much

We didn't have a phone all week cause we lost it again, so we couldn't let anyone know about the baptism, so long story short it was stressful and we got everything ready super last minute but it worked out and was good

Met another investigator who's cool, apparently he's like a competitive rubix cuber, he can do one in like 16 seconds...

President Eyring said that conference should be the walk and talk of the church for the next 6 months until the next one, and another person said that we need to continually learn, and relearn principles of the Gospel, so we've been relistening to conference 

Thats all folks

Conference thoughts

I got ameobas, 5th stomach infection but don't worry we're good now

Didn't do much other than be sick and then watch conference so here's some random quotes, a few of the very many i loved:

• Don't let life´s distractions eclipse heaven´s light
• Most often good deeds go unseen, but they are recorded in heaven
• Once you take a bribe to compromise your integrity, its very hard to get it back
• Spiritual light continually shines on all of God´s creations/as a disciple of Christ, you are light
• Hard is good

So there's the week, i love conference and the Spirit that you feel when you watch it

G