26 Febrero 2016

26 Febrero 2016

We FINALLY have someone lined up for baptism! WOOHOO! His name is Basilio and his wife's name is Agapita. She's a little off her rocker (in the middle of the lesson, we're sitting in their patio in front: "Come on inside so you can see my Virgensota. She's HUGE!" Not out of contention, just out of being a nice person) and he's quite strange as well, but they're 70+ and have been together for more than 50 years and are deeply in love. It's really cute. "Back when we were young and I loved her...well, I still do love her very much" or "I haven't been taking her to church recently because she's old and she gets tired really fast. But if she wants, I'll take her this week." Or when we talk about having an eternal family: "Well, we've been together this long and still love each other. I guess an eternity sounds pretty good." They were investigators from the sisters in the ward but they've been with them for four weeks and haven't been able to teach them because he gets late home from work, she's not lucid enough to teach by herself, and they live far away so it would be hard for the sisters to teach them and still get back in time by 9:30. But Basilio's been coming every week to church and has been reading his Book of Mormon faithfully. He's already going through Mosiah. So we taught them about repentance and baptism and invited them and the wife just said yes (I HOPE it was because she felt the spirit, but it was likely because she didn't understand) but Basilio said that he's been feeling great in the church and that he'd be baptized.

A TON of crazy stuff has been happening in the offices this week, most of which I can't say over email. But the stress has been so much for President Rodriguez that apparently something snapped in his brain and his eyes went cross-eyed. So now whenever he's talking to a missionary over the phone and the missionary asks him how he is he tells them: "Not so good. If you were standing in front of me, instead of seeing you and your companion, I would see two of you." It's fun being with him so much. He and his wife are super goofy together.

My companion lost his bag in a taxi this week. And the worst part was that he was sitting in the front seat and didn't contact the guy so we don't have any information about how to contact him. He lost his scriptures (including his new bible because his old one was stolen on a bus), and his camera including ALL his pictures from the mission. And I think a few other important things but those are the two big ones. So right now we're going through our days with only one set of scriptures. And I get to carry it.

Doing transfers this week. We get them all set up, and some companionship does something stupid. So we have to change that companionship, plus every companionship that that change affected, plus every companionsip that THAT change affected, and so on and so forth. For every dumb move of a missionary, we have to change between five and fifteen areas, and that usually takes about an hour and a half to three hours of debating, thinking, reasoning and making phone calls. This happend about three times this week. There have been days that we haven't even really gone out to work in our area. This is why sometimes assistants don't baptize.

Food I forgot to mention last week: BARBACOA! It's SOOOO good! And it's better in Bolillos (word that means little baguette or white american). It's basically pulled pork (or cow or horse or dog) and is super duper delicious.

I think I might write a little later, but right now we're going to go play basketball with the zone leaders, another companionship and the old secretaries and the new secretaries. It should be fun.

Love you all!

Elder Taylor