14 Diciembre 2015

14 Diciembre 2015

This week was an interesting week. We had transfers on Tuesday, and as it appears to be becoming a habit, I got very sick. We went to the doctor (had to chase him down in the parking lot because he was leaving) and he told me it was probably the same stuff from the last time. It might be just the same intestinal infection from the last time or a different one, but one way or another it was an intestinal infection. Good news was this time it wasn't as bad as last time and so he just gave me a few pills and sent me on my merry way.

Then the pills plugged me up and I didn't poop for two days straight. So now I'm eating very carefully and eating prescribed amounts of prune yogurt (which is better than I thought) and cooked carrots, but other than that I'm eating normally. One morning I was popping antibiotics with one hand and preparing probiotics with the other. I thought "Maybe I'll just become a raw vegan instead." That is, unfortunately, impossible here in the Mexican North.

So THEN my companion got jealous of my constant phone calls with Hermana Rodriguez and decided to fall deathly sick of a horrendous throat infection, doubled on top of his asthma. Basically, we hardly worked this week.

But even so, we saw some awesome stuff. Usually when an investigator says, "I've thought more about my baptismal date..." as a missionary you think "Oh crap, they're having second thoughts." So when Hermano Sierra, Yarik's grandpa says that very sentence, I was prepared for the bad news, especially when he said he wanted to change the date to be on Yarik's mom's birthday. Those are especially hard to change the mind of the person.

"We think he should be baptized on his mother's birthday, the 17th." ....."Of what month?" "Of this month, December." I check the calendar. "...So in one week from today?" "Unless that's inconvenient." "Nope, no problem at all."

So we're baptizing Yarik on Thursday and his great-uncle, the stake president, is going to baptize him.

Leopoldo's date as well is still valid. So Saturday.

Karen Rocio is still thinking of a date, but we're going to see what she says tonight. Last time she said that she'd prayed about it and that she'd received a confirmation. It's super fun to teach them because she's SO smart and SO ready to learn and she and her dad are SO goofy together and her chihuahua is SO dumb. Seriously, the dog started chewing on staples during the lesson last time. It's a miracle that thing is still alive.

We're teaching a less-active lady and her kids now. The Family Tokunaga Flores. Her kids are SUPER smart but somewhat lazy. It's going to be a little hard because they go every other weekend with their dad and they're going out of town for Christmas, but as soon as they're back, I think they'll be ready to go.

We had the Temple Dedication of the Tijuana Temple on Sunday! It was super awesome. We just had to tell a few people that they couldn't come because of it being a dedication, which was pretty hard, but I think everybody understood.

We started teaching some pretty interesting people this week, so I hope I'll have some more names to put in here for future reports.

We had a lesson with Maria Esther and Yocelin about the Book of Mormon and we talked about it being written for the Jews, the Gentiles and the Lamanites and when we told them that they were probably descendants of the Lamanites, Yocelin nodded and said "Yeah, I thought so." Smart girl.

Gilberto is leaving us. He is moving today to Monterrey to live with his daughter and help her in her business. Also to work on his genealogy of the Perez side of the family, he says his sister has already pretty much finished all the Ruiz part. We're going to miss him a lot. Good news is he'll be super close to the temple and will be able to go a whole lot more often than once every 2 months, which is how often the ward here goes.

So yep. That's how this week has gone. We got news this morning that tonight we're getting two new missionaries in the zone. They're going to be in Cuauhtemoc Ward where there haven't been missionaries for a few months. One of the missionaries coming in is Elder Rambal from Boise, Idaho. My first fellow Boisean that's I've met here! Go Broncos!

Everybody have an AWESOME week :)

As far as time for the googlehangout on Christmas Eve, actually it turns out that it would be better for my companion's family in Puebla on Christmas Day. We'll confirm an hour by next week.

Atentamente:

Elder Taylor