Que tal vatos,
So I realized I haven´t written in a few weeks so I thought I should write everyone just in case someone thought I got lynched or something down here. It´s been a pretty cool few weeks though which is cool.
I don´t think I´ve ever said anything about this on the group email yet cause it´s pretty bad and I didn´t wanna be super negative or anything. But the toilet in our house is absolutely horrible and gets clogged everytime we use it and occasionally overflows. It became pretty infamous in our zone and even in some other parts of the mission as well. The miracle this week is that we finally made it through the bureaucracy of the mission, basically actually convinced the secretary that it was a problem, and they replaced the toilet. So miracles are real, brothers and sisters. That´s been a huge testimony builder for me and through this experience I know that through Jesus Christ we really can overcome all things.
The works been really cool and everything and we have a few people we´re teaching but it´s been pretty hard to get people to actually come to church. There´s been a few unexpected miracles though, like not exactly what we wanted or anything but cool and all. Two weeks ago, we were teaching a family of 3 and it was going super well. At the end of the lesson we asked them to be baptized and the spirit was super strong and the whole family was crying and everything. They said they´d be baptized and then we told them we were super happy for them and began to tell them why that was gonna bless their lives. So yeah super great and everything but then the dad said he had a question. This man tells us their whole family was already baptized 7 years ago in our church and they even had pictures and everything. So he asked us if he could be baptized again. So that was a mixture of super funny and kinda frustrating, but through it we kinda learned that it was actually a huge blessing that we found these guys cause we could get them to come back to church. Not really what we wanted or expected, but that´s just kinda what God does sometimes. In the end we were still doing God´s work so that was cool.
We´ve also had some more Azumiatla adventures. On Saturday the only member family that lives there invited us over for lunch. The problem with that was that Azumiatla is 35 minutes away by bus, kinda expensive, and the only thing we knew about this family was that they lived on "the hill outside the pueblo" and that she works in a tortilleria. So it took about 2 hours to find her but it was actually super cool and one the people we´re teaching helped us find them cause she knows every person in the entire town. We also found out that they´re pretty good friends with each other so that´s another cool miracle.
Day of the Dead also happened but basically if you wanna know what that is just watch Coco cause that movie pretty much nailed it exactly. It was pretty cool though and that might be a tradition I bring home with me. Way better than Halloween in my opinion.
That´s pretty much it though. That was kind of a ton of random thoughts in no particular order and sorry if these are going down in quality haha. Imma try and make them better in the future though and put more thought into it.
I hope you all are doing great,
Elder Olivier
Fotos:
1. Me in Azumiatla walking hasta la goma
2. DeMaso and I in front of the aquí linchamos sign in our area(you can probably guess what that means haha)
3. Us in front of the great cathedral in Puebla
4. Us in front of the Puebla sign overlooking the whole city
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