This week absolutely flew by...

 … it started off super well with an activity that we had planned for Wednesday night.  To reactive members and to bring a lot more unity with the members in Tres Valles, we’ve started hosting activities every Wednesday at 5:00 pm.  This was the first one and it was a little family home evening.  It was really well, we had about 50 people come (which is super good for here) and a few investigators were able to come too.  Elder Murillo and I shared a message about the importance of the Book of Mormon, and then we went and played board games and ate donuts and sandwiches.  Jenga was the biggest hit, we had about 15 people playing the one little game.  It was super funny.  We don’t really have a set plan for this upcoming Wednesday but we’re thinking it will be very similar but with different games and treats.  We are going to set up the volleyball net too.  So we will see how that goes!! 

Friday was also a pretty interesting day.  We had divisions again!  But this time with our district leader, Elder Barcenas.  He came to Tres Valles with me and Elder Murillo went to Temazcal with Elder Andrade.  We did the divisions so Elder Barcenas could come talk to our investigators who want to get baptized.  He wanted to see if they are ready.  We first went and talked with Flor and Jose.  Jose is super ready and excited; however, Hermana Flor still isn’t sure and wanted the weekend to pray and think about it.  So, we’ll see if she received an answer this week.  Hermana Ausencia is going through a tough time right now and so she doesn’t feel ready.  Her date will be pushed back until February. 

Pedro (the 16-year-old) hasn’t been able to come to church the past couple weeks, so we pushed his date back to February as well!  Iris, the 9-year-old, is super excited and ready so she is for sure getting baptized this Saturday!!  Overall, Friday was a pretty good day.  The craziest part, however, was that we went to Lo Narenjos for a Family Home Evening, and we missed the bus back to Tres Valles … The father of the family insisted that the bus always passed by his corner…. we were standing there on the corner of his street and all we could do is watch as the bus left from two streets down … and went on its way to Tres Valles … without us.  We were standing there for a couple minutes wondering what to do, when a car pulled up and offered us a ride.  We hopped on in and this man took us home.  He was super nice, and had talked to missionaries before.  We have a lesson set up with him this week!  So that was our miracle of the week.

Yesterday was Stake Conference.  We got up early and caught a bus to Tierra Blanca.  The church building is pretty small, so it was packed with members.  They kicked us missionaries off to a little room to watch the conference on a little TV.  It was a great conference and we had a good time!  But yeah, that was my week!  I hope you all have a great week!  Miss you all!

Elder Gurney