Ofi, this week was a pretty good one. We had
changes and now i feel weird because i don´t have a latino comp by my
side, i´m with a gringo! I´ve had a latino comp for the last year so this is a big change. My comp is Andrew Collier from Riverton, Utah and he
has 11 months in the mission. He is huge, 6´ 5¨ and 250ish lbs so now I
have a giant to protect me in the mean streets haha. He´s cool and chill so it
should be a good change. Perez, my old comp, is now comps with Elder
Mayo who was my roommate in the MTC, and they are both crazy, so that
should be interesting. Elder Atuake my MTC comp, is now in San Blas Islands, so you probably
won´t be hearing from him for 6 weeks and he won´t get any packages or
letters just so ya know. But he was pumped to get sent out there, i´m
still hoping to go but we´ll see.
As far as investigators go, the D________s had a
cool experience. So on Wednesday we took one of them (R____) to
seminary and she enjoyed it, but on the way back we were talking
and i asked her when she was going to get baptized, and she said as soon
as God confirms her prayers. So I asked how she was going to get that
confirmation and she said by praying and reading the Bible. So i told her that
if she wanted a response about the Book of Mormon she has to read the Book of Mormon, and I left her with a bunch of homework to do. And while
we were sitting and talking i was showing her my favorite scriptures, and
my comp said that while we were reading she was on the verge of crying
because she felt the power of the Book of Mormon. We went back there the next
day and i didn´t even ask if she and her family had finished the assignment, because for most people
it takes them a whole week to read one chapter in the BOM. But we were talking
about other things and she told me that they studied and i asked what had they
studied, and it turns out that they sang hymns, prayed, read the upcoming
lesson for the investigator class in gospel principles, and they looked
up every scripture, and read the chapters i left for them
in the Book of Mormon- and then finished with prayer again. And the best part
is that they did it all by themselves without a member or a missionary helping
them along. And even better, they said that they loved what they studied
and they were super happy about everything. Sounds just like Family
home evening, right? Just missing a game and refreshments haha and they
aren´t even members.... yet. Anyway it was all great and we were going
to put a fecha with them but then the husband found out that his brother
had been murdered back in Brasil so that killed the mood with them, but
we have an appointment to meet them this Tuesday.
We are getting close to getting two more couples
married and baptized, and we have appointments for the medical papers this
week and then we just gotta turn it all in and wait for the date that
the officials give us. I´m now a pro in marrying people here, the people in the
court place even recognize me now haha. The fam p___ f___ are still
going slow but the mom is going to hospital this week to give birth to
her baby and then after a week or so of rest i think she´ll be coming to
church with us again and she´ll be baptized i think. The branch has a
little party planned for her for the baby birth and stuff so they are
really supporting her.
Well it´s really weird to think about a new
mission president coming here but President Ward and his wife are almost done and soon it´ll be a new
gringo President. I wonder how well the incoming Pres kept up his Spanish. I remember that the
apostle Christofferson had amazing Spanish, and that most the other
gringo General Authorities that came also had really good Spanish. They must
get a lot of practice traveling and visiting people.
Well, my sunburn peeled off on my neck, it was
really painful the first two days with my shirt collar rubbing it but
now it´s good. I´m super tan right now because the sun is really strong
here and we walk alot in the sun but it looks funny because i have a
really bad tan line from my watch and my shirt sleeves. Some people say i
look latin now except for my eyes haha. Sometimes i miss the cold so
much i stick my head in the freezer and pretend I'm back at home, hahaha.
So this last change was probably my favorite
change of the mission but i hope to make this next one even better. The
plan is the branch will have us work some in this upscale neighborhood to try to
baptize a few families so that they can split the branch and have
two branches, because the chapel is really far away from the poorer neighborhoods
so that keeps lots of people from coming - so they want to make a branch
that takes in the richer neighborhoods and then make a new one in the poorer area, and I'm sure that the less-well off branch will soon be a ward because there are alot of people
there. It´s an interesting plan but we´re going along with it.
The best part of this week was definitely the
D______s and their experience with the power of the Book of Mormon.
I´ve had lots of times when people just read a little bit of it, then they
feel the power of the book, and they realize it is true, so it´s super book in reality,
haha.
Take care everyone and it´s good to hear
everything is good and everyone is doing well. Enjoy the snow for me and I´ll enjoy the
heat for you guys! Take care and i love you!
Elder Pfister
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