This week was principally running around. Our area continues to not decide between being rural and urban, and we live in one corner of our area 15 minutes away from the main block of dense neighborhoods, which in turn is about 15 minutes away from various other blocks. So we walk :>
We spent most of the week just getting to know new families (less active and investigator) and working with those who are progressing. The members are helping a ton and we seem to have more confidence with them now.
We moved into our house! It's the most American house I've lived in. It has wood. We have a large garage open to our patio. We have fancy lights and it has two floors, and given that it's a cement building, the bottom floor remains cool even during the hottest hours of the day! QUÉ PODER. The house hadn't been used for 5 years so we're still cleaning a bit and the plumbing isn't actually operable (we have to provide the toilet with water from the shower). We live right next to a school so we always get to hear el himno nacional de EL SALVADOR during studies. And a lightning bolt struck like our neighbor's house or something the other night during planning because huela it was close. But my favorite part of the new house is that I can sleep in jeans :> Jeans are the most comfortable for sleeping. (All my other houses were way too hot).
Emma de García and Patricia are almost sure to be baptized on the 26th. They're super. Emma is the young wife of a member who was activated recently and she really wants God's help to have a good marriage and family. She's felt the Spirit, has begun to live the Word of Wisdom, todito. She just has problems finding time to read the Book of Mormon, given she has a 6 month old baby, but she even attends the marriage classes in the chapel.
Patricia is a niña and everyone in the family but her aunt is inactive, but she is echando ganas (really motivated) to learn the Gospel, live it, and be baptized.
One cool experience we had was while we were walking down the road, a guy in a truck stopped by us. It was Walter, a guy we had taught once, our first Sunday in the area. He apologized for not being in home and said he was going to quit his job and focus on the little shop they have in his house so that he could focus more on God (during the brief lesson we had, I mentioned 2 or 3 times why the Sabbath Day is important). It's incredible when people want to talk to you, rather than suffer you to talk to them.
We also found some old investigators that my old companion, Elder E, had taught. They didn't end up coming, but they really like the Church and accepted the church and baptismal invite. We set the baptismal goal for the 10 of October (my birthday :>). When we found them, we taught 4, but the whole family is composed of some 14 people.
Let's hope throughout the world for an experience as found in Helaman 5!
Work hard, live the Gospel, enjoy the journey! Don't do what you enjoy, rather enjoy what you do.
And a good quote from the Liahona of this month, which I recommend to you all (esp. the articles on family): "The Atonement allows us to learn from our experiences without being condemned by them."
Elder Newman
wow I actually wrote a lot this week. and my camera memory got ruined in the last cyber we used so quedamos pendientes con respecto a fotos.
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