Capítulo 89- Case-ball

This week was full of divisions! We did divisions three different times this week. Starting off on Tuesday, we went to Danlí B and had divisions with them. That was really fun, especially because i got to go with Elder Rohrbacher... yes, my companion from about 17 months ago haha. It was really cool. And its crazy to think that next week he finishes his two years and will be back in his house.

After the district cousil on Thursday we went and did divisions with la reforma. They're hermanas, so we didnt do normal divisions. They went and worked like normal, but we worked in their area all day with a member who is getting ready to serve a mission. We wanted to help the hermanas out a bit, and from what it looks like we helped a lot. We'll see if the success pans out. 

Then the very next day, we had divisions with the Elders from the other half of our ward. I stayed in my half with Elder Martinez ( who was with me in the MTC ) and Elder Rodriguez went with Elder Reyes.

This week we also had a great p-day. We started coordinating things a long time ago because we wanted everything to turn out well. We tried to do an activity with 2 zones (valle verde and Danlí) but the other zone cancelled on us. So it was just us. We played volleyball and soccer, and while we were playing, we all took turns cooking carne asada. It turned out super well!! Especially because elder rodriguez and i marinated the meat the night before. It was AMAZING. After eating we plated basketball and some good old smashball. Nobody could pronounce smashball, so everyone started calling it Case-ball haha.

Changes are coming up next week, so we'll see what happens.

Capítulo 88- They just seem to be falling out of the sky

This week started off with a good Zone Conference. We combined the Zones Danlí and Valle Verde. It was a really good conference. We focused a lot on the book of mormon and how to use it correctly. It's amazing how much i've changed my teaching. When I first started the mission I would wait until like the 4th visit to talk about the book of mormon, but now I understand, and we don't leave a single lesson, or we don't even count the person as a new person that we're teaching unless they have a copy of the book of mormon and an assigned chapter or part.

  These past few weeks, the area presidency has been asking us how many less actives have we been visiting and a whole bunch of other stuff so that's also something that we're trying to focus on a little more. While Elder Rodríguez and I were visiting a less active member she asks us if we wanted corn tamales. We both said yes and then she started going on about how she makes really good corn tamales and how it's corn season and a whole bunch of randon stuff. Anyways, she gives us both a plate and starts getting the corn tamales. She then puts them on our plates, and I swear that when that tamale touched the plate, it make a squishing noise and turned into a pancake. It was the most undercooked tamale I had ever seen. i started eating because she was just so happy to see someone eating her food and she hadn't gone to church in while, so I didn't want to give her another reason to not go to church... It was horrible... I was eating pure dough... My companion was suffuring too.

  I look over and it seemed like he finished. So I forced it all down my throat, and we got the heck out of there. While we were walkig my companion takes the tamale out of his backpack and we just started dying of laughter. We got sick from that for a few days, but she showed up to church on sunday, so it seemed like it was worth it haha.

  This week has been pretty crazy with the people that we are teaching. They just seem to be falling out of the sky. We have been finding so many new people and they are all really positive and really want to learn. We'll see what happens these upcoming weeks!

Capítulo 87 - We had the baptisms of Karla, Yensi, and Hector!

Well this week started off with a good 3 hour trip to Tegus for a conference that we had. That was fun, but the bus trip was terrible. We had to wake up at 4 to get on the bus and get to Tegus on time. Then after the meeting we got back on the bus, and came back up to Danlí the same day. We didn't get back until 7:30 at night 

  Then we had some crazy divisions this weeks. Well, they started out normal, but it all turned out crazy at the end. We started after our district counsel. I went with Elder Guerra to his area, Bella Vista, and Elder Moreno went to my area. We didn't finish divisions until dinner the next day. That wasn't the plan, but Elder Guerra had to do baptismal interviews in our area and My companion had to do a surprise baptismal interview in Paraíso so he went over there with Elder Moreno and I stayed with Elder Guerra. Paraíso is super far away, so that took them many hours. Then the pouring rain made things insane. It was raining so hard, and everyone was just soaking wet.

  After divisions, we had the baptisms of Karla, Yensi, and Hector! It was awesome. Everything turned out well, and a lot of members showed up. Right after the baptism Elder Rodriguez and I were walking to an appointment that we had when we passed by two drunk dudes. I'm pretty sure that one of them tried to rob us, but we weren't very sure haha. One started speaking english saying "Money.... Sorry... Money.... Sorry... How are you.... Goodmorning... sorry... money...." Then the other one was like, "Don't bother them...NO... Don't bother them"  but in spanish of course. It was a lot funnier in person because every sound that came out of the first guy's mouth, the second one would tell him not to bother us haha.