So last monday I think i said how I had woken up sick. Well due to the consejo we had last monday, we also had all day pday so we had enough time to finish the stuff we needed. So after internet, we went and did our compras, and then we just went right home and I went straight to bed. At like 8ish. Well. I slept terrible. I was waking up all night and was hot and cold and had to go to the bathroom and just miserable... but finally tuesday morning came around and it was time to get up and start the day... but my body was just not having it. I felt TERRIBLE. I was extremely sick ha. So i just stayed in bed all day and rested because seriously i was bad. so on tuesday we didnt go out to work either because i was way sick. and it was super lame. Im still a little sick to the stomach... but im alot better now. Ive been taking some meds to help me out. So i should be hanging in there haha.
But speaking of that im starting to get pulgas again like crazy.... GOSH DANG IT. If you dont remember, pulgas are fleas. I was doing so good and had no pulgas. But then the other week when we first got here and we had the mini cambio, the elderthat slept in my bed had fleas so im pretty sure he passed them to me and so im getting bites allll over ago. Sooooo fome. I hate it. I HATE PULGAS. ughhhh i itch.
Moving onward... Also the other night we experienced another temblor. It was loco. It was at nght a little after we had gone to bed. And all of a sudden our beds started rocking alot haha. They were just swaying pretty heavily side to side and we were like "whoaaaa elder do you feel that?!" haha. I dont think it was bigger than the other one i experienced in curico... but it was still pretty big and worth writing home about haha.
Well the next story to me is just like.... embarrassing. So on Saturday someone in our zone had a baptism! Yay!! So we went to the baptism and brought an investigator. But... it was just legitimately the worst baptismal service ive ever seen. So first it started an hour late. Just because nobody showed up, AND the font wasnt filled all the way. So finally the service starts... and the ward mission leader was directing. Anyway he said "Welcome to the baptismal service. Im directing today. Im hermano so and so from the ward......" and didnt even know what ward he belonged to. haha... someone said it out loud and he said "oh yeah. From the ward Cerro Verde. and here presiding today from the bishopbric is the 1st?... 2nd?... counselor. El Hermano...." and had no idea what his name was. He turned around, asked him, and then just kept going. Anyways he did lots of little stuff like that that just werent very smooth... he messed up the name of the woman getting baptized as well. So that was just lame... anyway. But so there was this kid there as well that was just KILLING the spirit. The kid was just INSANE. I think he might have had some sort of special need though... Im not sure. But anyway he was just yelling things and kept yelling out comments about whatever the person was giving a talk about, and in between every talk he`d run up and yell something in the microphone that just.. nada que ver. and he had his toy hot wheel cars and was throwing them all over the place and people had to duck one or two times to avoid them... oh man it was mal. BUT. Thats not even the worst of it.
At the end of the service, they asked the hermana ana maria (The woman who had just been baptized) to give her testimony. So as shes walking up, i made eye contact with the missionary who was working with her and he just had this scared look on his face. So she gets up... is speaking, and in her testimony says "Well ten years ago the Jehova´s Witnesses passed by my house and shared with me, but i never got baptized. But ten years later, theyve passed by again, and this time they convinced me!" so we just died when she said that... It was just bad. BUT. Then when she ended her testimony, to just put a little extra salt in the wound, she finished by saying "and I share this things in the name of the Lord..." she then paused. and we thought okay good shes just going to end. But THEN she said" ...and my father Jehovah, and the holy ghost..." she then proceeded to CROSS herself (the forehead, chest, shoulder to shoulder thing) and then said amen.
Oh. Man. It was a terrible service. and seriously just embarrassing. uaughusrhushfd. So. We had to have a little talk with the other elders and then we sent them to go visit her al tiro to make sure she knew she got baptized in the LDS church and not with the Testigos de Jehovah.... It was rough. haha.....
Dad you would have died if you had been there. hahahaha.
anddd the last story was just something interesting we saw yesterday. Yesterday after lunch we started walking back to the house and were about to go down this one street, but right as we turned the corner there was this one lady with her two little daughters who said to us very sternly, "Dont go down there. Theyre fighting with knives." and we were just like "whaaa?..." So we looked down the road, and sure enough there were a group of like 4ish guys that had knives that were throwing punches and slashing at one another... That was the first time I had ever seen that in my life. And when it WASNT on tv or in a movie or something. Anyway, we didnt see anyone actually get slashed or hit bad. It was more of just threatening eachother than an actual fight. But still. We just saw it and said "ohhhh yeah. Gracias! Were just gonna go another way then." So that was super whack.
andddd.... now im here writing this letter to you. That was basically my week haha. Pretty crazy. but. All is well. Were working good and having fun. We had the real cambios today and of course elder Holt and I are staying together. So that will be good. He only has 2 more cambios left... so he`ll probably just end the mission with me! haha. Bakàn. butttt. Eso.
Christ suffered in the Garden for us, died on the cross for us, and was resurrected three days later. I know it with all my might and dont doubt it for a second. I love you and msis you all and hope you`ll take advantage of that atonement that He did for us. Have an awesome week!!!
-Elder heyman
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