Before I recap this week, Ive got good news!! This Saturday, at one oclock, we are going to have our first baptism!! And then Sunday, at eight am, were going to have our second!!!!!! So we are excited about that! The first baptism is for Hermano Francisco, he is the gentleman that came up to us while we were opening the chapel a couple weeks ago. Last week we invited him to be baptized but he said he wanted to think about it a little more and then he called us a couple hours later and said that he felt like he should be baptized! So this week we worked with him to be able to be baptized on Saturday. He is super awesome. Our second baptism is for Aaron, he is 10 years old and his family is less active, not for a lack of belief or anything, they just live far away and don't have enough money to come. However, they talked with the Bishop and worked out a plan and they've been able to come the past couple Sundays to church. We are super excited for the weekend!
But yeah now this week:
Dia de los Muertos: So November 1 and 2 are the days of the dead here in lovely Mexico and those couple days were quite interesting... Being the only Gringo in all of lil tres valles I get a bit of attention. People stare shamelessly and there are always the occasional person who shouts out a random greeting in English or just random English words. Its pretty funny actually. But this week everyone was out and about and drinking, so the attention was multiplied. Hahaha. We had this one drunken guy come up to us one day while we were waiting for the bus and he staggered up to us and starting flailing his arms around, pointing at the sky, and yelling about Jesus. We just kind of stood there and then gave him a picture of Jesus and he went on his way... Elder Mendez and I started cracking up as soon as he left. So yeah I thought I'd share that fun story. Regardless, besides the increased greetings in the street, this week was pretty normal.
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| Pan de los Muertos ... our Bishop is a baker so he gave us a bunch of these. They are delish! |
Our Investigators (as promised):
- Arturo y Soledad: These two investigators (husband and wife) are two of our stronger investigators, they've been investigating the church since the end of August. They know it's true, but Hermano Arturo wants to be 100% sure before committing to anything. We're encouraging them to pray to receive that answer. They did accept a baptismal date, the 25th of November, and if they receive their answer then they'll be baptised on that day!
- Hermana Juana: Juana is a reference from the Bishop. She is living with her spouse, but they aren't married, the spouse is an inactive member however so we've been working with them on getting married and baptized haha. They accepted both, so we are super excited for them too.
- Isis, Carlos, Angelica, and her husband: This family is absolutely hilarious. They all are pretty interested in the church. Hermana Isis accepted a baptismal date for the 18th. Her husband, Carlos, is the funniest of the group, he has an interest but he works every Sunday. They are way fun and so we'll see what happens with them!
- Juan and Lucia: This is the family with a daughter on a mission. They always take us on tours of their rice fields and cows. They are also super fun, but it's pretty expensive to visit them so we weren't able to go this week. However, yesterday, Hermano Juan called us cause he misses us basically, haha, he offered to pay for our taxis and everything. So we're going to go visit him on Wednesday, paying for ourselves. haha.
But yeah those are more or less our current progressing investigators!
The Service: On Saturday we had the opportunity to go help Hermano Carlos with his fence. However, this isn't really a typical fence, it's a few posts in the ground with barbed wire along it and metal sheets to cover it, more or less. So we tore it down, put in new posts, replaced the barbed wire, and then recovered it with the metal sheets. We did that from 9 am to 3 pm. And I forgot sunscreen... so yeah I'm a bit red right now and tired and scratched up. But it was fun so it's all good! So yeah that's my week!
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| A snake that attacked me while we were digging up posts ... thankfully Carlos got to it before it got to me! |
Love you and miss you all!
Elder Gurney
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