Week 38 - Sandwiches get you investigators

We've been teaching these two guys that we met buying sandwiches, and they're super cool, and they're feeling really good about their baptismal date. We're hoping all goes well with them.

We bought 2 kgs of hot dogs because we didn't want to keep leaving the house to go buy food. When it rains, you need to protect your hot dogs.​

Elder Rivas protecting the hot dogs

Week 37 - Bowling Champion

Ok, so this week's a short one.  Our taxi took us to the Other Side of Centro, so we lost about an hour of writing time.

This week has been fine, and the only problem that we have is that nobody comes to church. It's fine. It's only frustrating in the moment. But we have been buying a lot of World Cup Keychains. (See Below) We almost have all of them. We're only missing 4 of them.

World Cup Keychains we're collecting

Week 36 - No Regrets

So we have changes today. I'm staying in Burgos with Elder Rivas! And now I'm the District Leader. How cool!

We really didn't do hardly anything this week. Pretty much all our citas fell through, and we've been having the hardest time with finding new investigators, so it's been pretty slow. We're working with our Zone Leaders to improve our finding skills. I hope we can find some stronger investigators. Sometimes we just feel like we're burning up time.

Calling home was pretty sweet. It was a little hard because the camera died on the laptop I was using, but I got to talk to the family anyways, and that was really the most important part. I love being out here, and calling my family wasn't as distracting of an experience as I thought it would be. It was actually really enriching, and helped me remember why I'm out here.

Week 35 - I Hold the Mission Record for Being Robbed

We got robbed again, but this time, with a pistol.

I wish that was a Joke.

We were out with a member André again, and all of our citas fell through. We went looking for a reference in a colonia called "Las Cumbres" that if very ugly. (Before you think to yourself that I should avoid ugly colonia, you should remember that Pretty much all of México is ugly). We stopped to look at something. Next thing you know, a guy runs up to Elder Rivas, putsa pistol up against his back, and demands his money. Then he took my money, and searched my bag for a solid minute and a half. 

I'm very lucky that he didn't take my camera. He didn't even give André a second look. He left going one way, and told us to go down the other way. I forgot to pull the money we had pulled from the bank the day before, so I lost $1100 pesos ($55) and Elder Rivas lost about $200 pesos($10).

Week 34 - Finding and Service

This week was pretty awesome but also really hard.

The first 3 days of the week we taught very little and no one wanted to hear us. We had a cool lesson with our investigator Maritza and her family, and even planned a Family Home Evening with them. But then they canceled. And again, and again. Almost all of our investigators flaked on us in one form or another. But on Friday, we went on Divisions with Elder Fernández here in Burgos, and we had the bapismal interview for an investigator named Margarita. She's getting baptized on the 5th of May. We also put all of our investigators with a baptismal date, and they're all progressing really well.

On Friday, we went to teach a lesson to an investigator named Carlos. He owns a little shop and a tortillería.When we got there, he told us he didn't have time to meet with us because his workers didn't show up, and he had to figure out how to use the Tortilla machine he had. We spent the next 2 1/2 hours helping him figure out how to use it. Good thing Elder Rivas already has almost three years of studying to be and Industrial Engineer, because Carlos and I were learning as he spoke. After that, he gave us Queso de rancho to eat with some tortillas. Tortillas for me right now is more normal than bread. They eat them with everything. Even spaghetti. I'll probably never arrive to the point where i can't eat spaghetti without tortillas, but México is definitely having an affect on me.