so it's worth noting that the titles of these emails will be sensible to maybe 3 people at any given time if I put anything there at all
But Tuesday started off the week with a bang. We were on exchanges, so I was with Elder Morales, and we were bringing an investigator family to a family home evening in the ZOne Leader's Area when it starts raining. This is a thing, but not a big deal usually. And it was a heavy storm, but a normal heavy storm. Except for 5 minutes of this horrible wind. We were passing in front of the chapel and climbing a short hill when wind and hail come out of nowhere, to the point that I can't really walk against it. Then, something like 30 feet behind us, a huge tree falls down and covers the road. Once we started moving again, after the wind passed, streets were covered with trees and branches. Plus, trees had fallen on pretty much all the power lines, so we were lacking in that respect too. We still went to the FHE, but it was a thing right there. And since nobody had power, we were walking the streets to lightning flashes in the distance, because even after the storm passed, the entire sky remained covered, with extremely bright lightning in all directions around us. Minus the tree, it wasn't really dangerous, but it was crazy. My stuff got wrecked too, cus I gave my umbrella to one of the investigators. My agenda is extremely sad, minus the octagonal sun that is extremely happy on its cover. The wind bent it too, and I think it remains at the house of the FHE, cus we lost track of it in the darkness and locura general.
In other news, it was a pretty chill week. We helped an investigator prepare the foundations for his house. That's new. More machete proficiency, since we helped (mostly my companion) trim a huge tree by a lot. It was 1 tree and we spent like 2 hours cutting the thing. A bit of drawing here and there. I came into possession of audio CDs of the April 2007 General Conference. It's crazy how long ago that was, but the talk by Elder Holland in the first session,The Tongue of Angels, is well worth it. We're a week off from my first Changes. Apparently people do get changed during training, so I guess I do have to watch out for that. And we had District Conference too, so that was great. Pres. Vasquez spoke a lot, and he's really good at that in general. An investigator came for the first time in a month, which is fantastic, since he's a good person and it feels like he could progress super well, just a bit on the fence at the moment. We're also expanding our cooperation with members quite nicely.
Did a lot of study about gifts of the Spirit and differences between the ministry of different prophets. DIdn't know that Elisha brought a man to life when the man's body fell on Elisha's bones in his tomb. And the note that John the Baptist did no miracles, despite being one of the greatest prophets of all time, is worthwhile.
As for pics, it's mostly just drawings, and doodles, plus me in the Cyber Cafe that I'm currently chilling in. wheeeeeeeeee One thing I didn't expect is the nostalgia. You have a lot of time without stuff to think about, so sometimes, I just think of really old stuff that I haven't thought about in ages, like Bionicle, Spore, Gibs, and all that. As long as I'm not working, it's pretty nifty running through old memories.
Alright, ADIOS and have a superlative week!
Elder Newman
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