5
octubre 2015
It was a fun week this week, but we hardly
worked at all.
Monday was fun working for the 3 hours that we
worked, then Tuesday was normal (just a little short
because of the district meeting), and then to Saltillo on Wednesday,
then the counsel of leadership on Thursday and
then we came back. On Thursday, for some odd reason that I still don't
understand, they bought us tickets to send us back at 10:10 at night. We went to Mirasierra to see
the Alvarez familiy, but it looks like they just barely moved, so that was a
bummer. Then we went and saw a convert of Elder Flores in Valle de las Flores.
And then we went to go buy me a white tie (for a really long and complicated
story, the white tie I have is not mine and very ugly). And then we bumped into
an hermano from Aeropuerto, so that was fun.
And then we went to the Central de
Autobuses to wait by 10:00. And then the bus never showed up. We never found out
why, but apparently it just disappeared. So the company paid for us to go on
the 12:15 to Piedras Negras. The driver drove
SUPER FAST (we passed Monclova after 2 hours of leaving Saltillo, normally
that's a 3.5 or 4 hour trip), but we still got to Piedras at around 7:00, super
tired. We slept a little bit and then got up to study and work again and were
out the door by 11:00.
And then we had a good day of work and then General Conference on Saturday and Sunday.
A few new investigators this week: A
woman named Marta Castillo. The Spirit was SUPER strong in that lesson and she
accepted the baptismal invitation without any questions, even though she goes
to a Pentecostal Church. She's a single mom with one kid named Denzell (named
after Denzel Washington, just like the other Denzel from Frontera a few months
ago) and she's still struggling with the divorce.
We also have another one named Jose
Luis who just showed up to General Conference and sat down. Someone introduced
us and he sat down next to us. It was kinda funny how he kept falling asleep
during the conference, but then he told us that he only sleeps about 4 hours
every night because he has three jobs and works from 7 in the morning to 11 at
night. It's going to be hard to teach him, but he says he's really interested.
He studied Theology in college and is reading the Book of Mormon.
Reyna Betancourt, the lady whose name I
forgot last week, didn't seem as interested the second time around, but she
said she'd keep receiving us. I'm assuming they watched Conference in their
house because they didn't come to the church.
Esther De la Rosa and her daughter
Joselyn came to church again! And they gave us food! Como dijo mi compañero,
ESO es demostrar que verdaderamente han recibido el Espiritu de Cristo: dar de
comer a los misioneros. :)
Conference for us is a little different
here. In Monclova and Saltillo we had it available in English, but here no. So
I saw it all in Spanish for the first time. But that's okay. And HOLY COW!
Elder Christoferson translated his own talk and SHEESH he speaks good! MUCH
better than Elder Holland.
I was going to send pictures this time,
but it turns out that the computers here don't have the right kind of port.
I'm going to try to send a package
somewhat soon, now that I'm here in Piedras Negras and the people here often
cross the border to do their grocery shopping and are more than willing to send
a package for a poor, American elder.
Well, thanks for everything!
Elder Taylor
