Hola Amigos!
I have a joke are you ready?
Why were all the lamanites clothes wrinkled? Because the nephites had the plates!
Hahaha don't feel bad if you don't get it. It only works in Spanish. Plates in spanish is planchas and a plancha is also the same word for an iron. So the lamanites' clothes are wrinkled because the nephites had the planchas!
This week was really great! We have been working really hard on improving our teaching and have been getting a lot better and have a lot of people that we are visiting. Among some of the highlights this week were our visits with Carlos. He is pilas and has a ton of questions. Most of his questions had to do with the plan of salvation like what is the purpose of life and that sort of stuff. So we adjusted the teaching to meet his needs and have found a lot of needs but he is willing to put in the work to find out if all the stuff we are teaching him is true or not. So we are super excited about him and are also visiting this guy we street contacted last week named Luis. He knows the Bible reeallly well. A little too well and doesn't believe in another book like the Book of Mormon because we have everything we need in the Bible. But he did say that he is willing to read it and he also says that he totally agrees with us (like it says in Hechos/Acts 3:21) thethat there needs to be a restoration. We explained that the Book of Mormon is evidence of the restoration and that to know if it's true or now he really should just read it and he said he would! So hopefully he actually does. Also we found this super pilas guy named Antony. We don't usually contact but maybe two or three times a week if things fall through. We found this one lady named Aura and she didn't seems to receptive but was a little mroe receptive than most people. And we never went back. Until all of our appointments fell through the other night and it was dark and we don't contact after dark so we decided to go and visit her since we were close to her house we decided to stop by. Her son, Antony, answered the door and said that his mom was occupied but that he wasn't doing anything. He is about 22 years old and had some good questions and we taught the plan of salvation with him and are going back tomorrow. He understood really well what we were teaching and I think he'll really progress. Also today while we were shopping we had some stuff that normally doesn't happen. We ran in to the bishop, someone we started teaching on Sunday and we had two people ask us about the Book of Mormon! One went really well and the other one not so much but they were literally right after each other which was kinda funny. One lady asked us if we were the people who belived in Joseph Smith and if we had this other book. We explained a little bit about the restoration but she really isn't interested at all. She can't accept a book that isn't the Bible and doesn't see how it would be possible or necessary and we explained and answered her questions but she really doesn't want to know. Also she says that if the Book of Mormon is true, why doesn't the Bible talk about it. Well it actualyl does. She has a Book of Mormon and says she read part of it but that it didn't inspire her. BUT she doesn't remember anything she read. We invited her to read it again but she said no I'm fine which was kind of sad but as we all know we all have our free agency. But then literally 2 minutes later a worker who we asked where the protox was, after showing us where it was, asked us if we were testigos de Jehova or Mormones. We said that we were neither but that when people say mormons that they really are trying to say the members/missionaries of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And then he asked us if we had a book. We said that we did and that it was the Book of Mormon. He was really interested because he saw a facebook post of a sister missoinary from here in Jutiapa who is in Honduras where she posted her testimony of the Book of Mormon and said that we need to Flood the Earth with it. And he was like what is this book if its so important. So we got his datos down and are going to pass the reference. He looks like he has a lot of potential!
That's it for the work. This is my last week in Jutiapa (probably) and we'll find out on Sunday night where I am going. It's been a great 3 changes here and I have really felt myself grow as a disciple of Christ and be more competent in my teaching abilities.
Here is a picture of a typical guatemalan breakfast. Eggs, Beans, and fried bananas. It is SOOO GOOD!! I actually prefer it over milk and cereal. But we can hardly ever eat it because we dont normally go out to eat breakfast.
And here is a picture of me and Elder Cardona on divisions!! He is a great missionary and we had a ton of really great appointments together that day and felt like we were on fire. Don't get cocky kid.
I will update later with a screenshot of our call. Here's a bit of the hangout chat between Corey and Joseph today:
CW: Joseph, I love you! I'm not in a good spot to talk right now I hope everything is going well for you and that you're making progress on winning the hearts and minds of your district.
Joseph: Yeah there was a TON of progress this week And it helped the work a ton too
CW: yeah? what changed? if you're leading effectively, you not pulling, but trying to keep up
Joseph: I showed love and apologized for being too flechon and asked what I could do better
CW: how did that go over?
Joseph: They softened up and things are a lot better really
CW: well if you give specific (true) compliments to each person that will go along way. but they gotta be true/believable or it will back fire. Praise what you want more of
Joseph: i did that too
CW: great! Glad you've made some progress it's tough - everyone is coming from different places we love you!
Joseph: LOVE YOU!!
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