So this week was pretty unique. We started the week off with division with
the zone leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday.
So Monday night after our district meeting in Tierra Blanca. Elder Browning (from South Weber, UT) came
with me to Tres Valles. Elder Browning
also started his mission here about a year ago.
We visited a lot of the people that he taught when he was here. So those two days I met a lot of awesome
people, including one man who speaks almost perfect English! So we will see what happens with all of
them. It was a great start to the week
since I was able to learn a lot from him and also talk some English again for
two days!!
The most exciting part of the week, however, was Wednesday
afternoon. We passed by the house of a
member who hadn’t come to church in a while.
He is the only member of his family, and when we passed by his house we
heard a lot of yelling. I was a little
hesitant to knock because I’d rather visit him when everything is calm. Elder Browning went right up and knocked so I
went with it. As soon as he knocked, an
elderly woman burst open the door and went off running to a different house. We looked inside and saw quite a few people
sobbing and one man holding a little boy pressing a towel on his forehead. We went over to see what had happened. Turns out this little two year old boy had
fallen in the street and split open his head pretty good. Elder Browning picked up the kid and we took
off running with his mom and dad to the hospital. Luckily, a taxi turned the corner just when
we came out of the house, so we were able to get him there pretty quick. We dropped off the boy and his parents and
then left. When we left the hospital, we
went to thank the taxi drive for helping us out, but before we could say a
thing he said, “that’ll be 25 pesos…”
The taxi driver didn’t even give us a discount for our heroics! HA!!
The next day Elder Murillo and I went to see how the little boys was
doing. He is fine. He just needed a few stitches! The whole family now agreed to let us teach
them … and they all seem pretty interested!!
Thursday we had interviews with President Palmer, which are
always extremely helpful. Outside of
that, it was a normal day! Friday we
were given permission to watch the funeral service of President Thomas S.
Monson. It was sad but also a spiritual
and awesome experience. We invited quite
a few people to come watch so that was cool to see investigators, members, and
less active members come together to pay respects to him.
Sunday I was asked to give a talk in both the branch and
ward. So in my three months here … I
have given at least five talks! Besides
that .. yesterday was a pretty nice day too!
So that was more or less my week! Miss you all!
Have a great week!
Elder Gurney
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