Week 86 (May 19, 2015)

The week went well. It went along pretty uneventful. I’ll just talk about the most important stuff.

So the Parra Lopez family is going through some tough times. Margarita (the mom) looks pretty stressed. She has good reason, they are pretty unstable economically. Mario didn’t show much interest in us this week. He just stayed in his room the whole time during all the lessons... We just don’t know how to reach out to that guy! Margarita and Laura will both have a baptismal date at the end of the week. We are getting all the things worked out with them to know when Margarita and Mario can get married.

We are really seeing progress with a great Hermana named Elba. She was baptized this last year and is doing very well in the gospel. She went and found one of her neighbor’s that’s a less active and they have become good friends. It is good that they now both have someone to hold onto in the gospel. The less active’s name is Anna.  We have very inspiring lessons and share a lot with them. They are among some of the favorite people that I have known in the mission.

Finding new investigators was a big challenge this week. We are trying a ton of ideas and we are still struggling. That will still be a huge focus in the week.

We had some fun activities this week. On Friday we got together as a zone and had an inspiring breakfast. Elder Copling and I cooked up a ton of crepes and pancakes and served ‘em all up to the zone. We then showed an inspiring video and got everyone pumped up to work hard! It was fun shouting at them and getting them excited.

On Saturday we had a dessert night in the chapel. Elder Copling and I were bored one day during the week and decided to mess around and cook something up. So I grabbed some goldfish crackers that I had bought the week before at Wal-Mart, made up a chocolate batter to roll them in, and we deep fried them. We thought they would be nasty, but they turned out AWESOME….. We had all the confidence walking into our activity with a massive tray of chocolate fried goldfish! The members already think us gringos are weird to start off with and that we like weird food and all, and they flipped even more when we tried to explain what it was! But to our satisfaction they all approved! It was awesome. Even though we didn’t win, we still were a hit. Everyone pounded them down!!!

I hope you all had a good week!! I hope this one is even better! I love you all and miss you!!

Elder Haws