Week 54...8/17/15...Rain, Pastors, Shoes, The Spirit and makeshift gas masks

Alright, this one's coming a little late because the power went out about an hour ago. But this week was pretty good! This is the last week of another change! Wednesday is Cambios AGAIN!!!! SO INSANE! I spent most of my time this week on divisions with Elder Perez and Elder Sanchez. Both are great Elders but Elder Sanchez is super cool! We get along really well, probably because he's obedient and really has a great attitude. My comp and I get along really well. We started to play games of chess at the end of the week every week and during part of P-day! Right now I'm winning in the championship 5-2! So it's been pretty fun and we both have a blast!

It rained all week in every area I was in! That's what inspired me to buy new shoes today.

Me and Elder Sanchez In the rain with some plastic things some people let us borrow.

The first highlight of my week was definitely today. My shoes have been in pretty rough shape from walking in them for a year  And after losing my better ones my other ones are full of holes for water to enter.  I went to buy new ones at the megapaca. Which is basically the world's best thrift shop.  All of the clothes and what ever weird item you want can be found there at a dirt-cheap cost. I dropped 100 quetzales to buy some shoes which turns out to be a little under 15 bucks. But that gave me so sweet shoes!  Some Hush Puppies in new condition, some other shoes, and some Nike Golfs!  I was pumped!  Especially after having my shoes in such bad shape this last year! Right now I've got a pair on and my feet are very very happy.

Me and Elder Perez with our mural chalk drawing. (No worries it comes off with water.)

The other thing that happened yesterday, we were walking and it was just about to rain and we were hurrying to try to get into a lesson before it started raining. On the other side of the street was a lady and I had the tiniest of feelings to talk to her. I did the most awkward introduction I've ever done in my mission and talked to her for like 30 seconds about our message. She told us she wasn't interested but I still had the feeling that we needed to talk to her. So I asked her if she knew anyone that could be interested. That's when she directed us to a family of 6 that don't attend a church but have already visited our church in the past! It was so awesome! I love how the Spirit works to those that listen!

On Saturday we did an ''Area Attack'' in San Isidro which is when all of the missionaries go to one area and just invite everyone they can to go to church the next day! Apparently, it worked because San Isidro had 12 Investigators in church on Sunday!!!! It was so awesome!

Just a typical dog here. It's soooooo skinny!

We had another experience on Sunday. We were going around like crazy making sure everyone we had invited was going to go to church. When we walked by a house. My comp stopped and then kept walking and I was in front of him. Then right as we were about to keep walking a guy on a motorcycle came and told us to go in and that he lived there and wanted to hear our message! We were like SWEET! So we went in and started the lesson. We thought at first he was going to be really positive. But right as we got to teach about Joseph Smith it was apparent that he just wanted to contend. He also made it very clear that he was a pastor in a church in our area and told us we were wasting our time talking about Joseph Smith. We tried to remind him of what we had just been teaching about how God works through prophets like He did in the old testament. My companion had him read some perfect scriptures. But when we invited him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon he said he would read it but he didn't need to pray about it and wouldn't ever because he was convinced that it was false and from a false prophet. At that point, I was about up to here with him.  Then I just felt like a wave of the Spirit come over me. I felt like Nephi when he was reproving his brothers, or Abinadi when he was standing in front of Noah and his Priests or Like Joseph Smith rebuking the guards.  I just testified.  Well, I don't think it was me but The Spirit. During my testimony, the rest of the people in the house stopped talking and came out to listen. I finished and turned to my comp and he read a scripture and we ended with prayer and invited everyone to pray and ask if our message was true and then invited them to church and left. It was such an interesting and also amazing experience.

But ya. That's basically my week!

Love you all!

Elder Pugmire

Oh! Another Story. We were just sitting in our house studying when a guy with a blower backpack just walked in our house saying ‘’Voy a Funigar salen si puedan’’ or ‘’I'm gonna spray get out if you can.’’ I got one whiff of that spray he was spraying and we all were out. It was apparently a bug spray because the next day there were dead cockroaches all over the floor! But we finished cleaning the house with makeshift gas masks.

And finally just a casual outlet…. Only it's hooked to the power line!!!!!