3/17/14
Hello everybody,
This week was a bit
strange. some of the days we were running from lesson to lesson and then other
days we had the whole day booked and every single one fell through. Haha
The rollercoaster life of the mission right?
In Ezieza we have the
area split in two. We are in one area and the other area is the Hermanas’.
Literally all of the leaders are on their side and we cant cross over so
we cant have to many meetings with them or so we thought until we talked to the
president last week and he told us that we can go into their area if a member
invites us. So this week we tried having a lot of meetings with some of
the leaders to kinda gain a bit more of trust and find out who we should meet
with.
We found out from one of
them that an inactive Hermana was super super sick and wanted a blessing. So we
booked it over to her house to help her out. We got there and we clapped.
And clapped. And clapped. Her door is a good 20 yards from her
fence so we realized that the clapping isn’t gonna do too much good.
So my companion looked
both ways and full sprinted on her property and clapped and then full sprinted
back haha. He looked a little uncoordinated with all of his books and his
backpack trying to full sprint back to me before they opened there door but
just in the knick of time he grabbed his bike, made it look like he was sitting
back and relaxing and just waiting when they opened the door. And it worked
like a charm. Haha to tell you the
truth, I don’t know what happens if they find you on their property but I’m not
gonna be the one to test it out.
In other news, like I
have told you guys, there are sometimes where the number of dogs on the street
far outnumber the amount of people. This week we had many of these times.
One of these afternoons as we were weaving through the crowds of dogs
there was one right in the path of Elder Santos. Usually when you say
Cucha the dogs high tail it outta there. I don’t know why but they all scatter
when you say it haha. Anyways my companion told the dog cucha and it
looked around and ran off. My companion, at the same time, thought that
he was going to hit the dog so he swerved to miss it, but when he swerved the
dog didn’t know what to do and ran straight at him. He barely nicked the
little guy and it ran off completely fine. It was really really sad but
at the same time it was really really funny to look at his face of pure shock
and horror.
This week church was
good but a little long. They were having the aniversario of the women’s
society and the presidenta literally mentioned every single name of every
single woman in the church who was a member, all 90 of them and their traits
that they have. Haha it was good, just... a little long.
Also for you guys who
like music I was in the train today when I met a blind guitarist named Roberto
Meglia and he told me that his stuff is on YouTube and he played some for us
and it was real sweet so check it out.
This week we started
teaching a kid with more or less 23 years named Matias and his friend Kevin.
They are both super curious about God and what happens in life and after.
Yesterday they were telling us that they are both having pretty hard
times in life so we read 3 Nephi 18:18-21 about praying.
We explained it to them
and Matias told us, "I’m not sure if this is right but I feel like we
should pray with our families and if we do it then maybe things will get better
in our families. I’m going to pray with my parents everyday to see if
things get better." Then Kevin told us "I think I’m going to do
the same. I want to see if it can help my family." Haha
usually we have to ask several times to say the prayer but both of them
promised us that they are going to do it without us even asking them to do it.
Haha it made our job real easy.
Anyways I love you all.
Sorry it wasn’t that active of a week. Transfers are next week and
I am kinda hoping that Elder Santos and I are together for another transfer
haha.
I hope that things are
good for you guys too.
Love Elder Andy Merkley
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