Hello Family!
Well first off my official last day
working is December 13th. Then Monday is our interview and we travel the next
few days and I should be home sometime on Wednesday, probably. I still haven’t
gotten any information on my flights yet. And I hope the only person who is
using my room is Oakley. I’m okay with that. I want him to be accustomed to my
bed so he will sleep with me XD.
Anyway, this week has been pretty
good; however, I still haven’t been able to see the conference yet because I
need to convert the videos so they work on our dvd player. But I’m going to do
that this week. As for mainly women listening to our message, that’s true.
Mainly the men are either working or are just too stubborn to listen to us, or
they just like drinking... With a lot of people I’ve taught, we usually don’t
start out teaching the family but after a time they start to listen to us. That’s
something we have seen with the Yuca family, who by the way now have a baptismal
date for next Saturday (well, the mom and the daughter). The dad has a date for
the 21 of November just because of his work. Also the other elders had a baptism
this Saturday which was pretty dang awesome. Also, they have another one
planned for this next Saturday with our baptisms. I gotta say that in Espinar
we have work and success, a good pensionista who cooks good, and a good ward so
I’m pretty content. Oh yea and for the strike, it’s been lifted because they
were able to come to an impasse (I think that’s what it’s called). Only for a
few days we just had to walk around with our ID always with us and be back in
the house a little earlier.
Something I have learned about
myself is my patience. There have been a lot of times, especially recently,
where I just feel exhausted and stressed and I just want it to end but I just
pass through it and later I feel fine. Now at the end of my mission I think I
have become a lot more patient. Something funny that happened this week was we
had to chase a dog out of the sacrament meeting and an old lady just wacked it
super hard with her bag and the dog was a little smaller so I was afraid she
might have killed it. Something I learned this week was you should never tell
jokes in Spanish because they don’t come out right. My testimony has grown this
week with the leaders of the church. I was doing some studying on President
Monson as well as leaders from the Book of Mormon and I have been able to feel
more grateful for leaders that God gives us and the council that we can receive
through their teaching. Also it’s very important that we can have a strong
testimony for the leaders to know that they are here to help us and that we can
hear the words that Christ himself would say if he were here on the earth.
Well that about it for me this week
but I love you guys and I’m getting excited to see you all. (Mainly because my
zone leader goes home in 3 weeks) But until next week!
Elder Halverson
"It's wabbit season!"
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