Week 70...12/11/15...Elder Aceituno's last week, Temple, The BUS

Happy birthday, Grant! You're the man! All of my friends love seeing you in my photos I always carry around! Keep being a great kid and an example for all of your friends. Don't ever be afraid to do what's right. Pray every morning as soon as you get out of bed. Unless you have to go to the bathroom really bad. Then you should probably do that first but then hurry back to pray before you start the day. Read your scriptures so you can be a great missionary too someday! Hope you had a great birthday! Love your biggest brother Elder Pugmire

Cute little member girls

Me and my companion with the record board of the mission

So it feels like yesterday that I was thinking that I wasn't going to be able to write home but it was actually a week ago! We did a lot of traveling this week trying to help my companion prepare to end his mission. I got back from the capital super late Monday night! The normally 3-hour trip took 7 hours due to the traffic so we had to stay in the office house again. Then on Tuesday, we went back for the Zone Meeting the next day. We looked pretty raggedy walking in after being traveling for so long. But then we went to work. Mostly we worked on my companion's English books. His comps have never pushed him to get it done so we had to finish his entire book in a few days. That was rough. I'm honestly so tired of learning English. Entonces ya voy a hablar solomente Espanol. JAJA syke! But ya on Wednesday we went to visit the girl that came to church named Belen! She's super cool and her brother's dope too! 

I had a crazy experience on the bus. I'm not going to go into detail but let's just say that I have a testimony of the Autoridad de Jesucristo being in this church. And I am so grateful to have the same authority that Jesus gave to his Apostles in Mark 3:15. It was crazy. But we ended up going like 30 minutes past her house but we got to know what La Reforma was like and then went back to teach her! She couldn't come to church this week but next week she should be able to!

Here's a summary of the story. We were headed on a long bus ride up to La Reforma. Apparently, there used to be a bunch of members up there but something happened and they all went inactive. On the way up my companion fell asleep, and then this lady next to me started shaking, drooling, and falling out of her seat. It was so uncomfortably quiet, my companion was asleep, and some people glanced at the lad but either didn't realize something was wrong or didn't want to acknowledge that there was. I felt like I was the only one watching and realizing what was going on. I tried to wake up my companion but he was out. So I said a prayer that I would be blessed to know what to do, and then put my hands on her head to give her a blessing. I remember feeling awkward in my words, my heart was racing and in a mix of Spanish and English, I blessed her to recover or have whatever was afflicting her removed. I just kept praying until I felt her stop shaking. I opened my eyes, she stopped shuttering hers, and then sat up. I looked around but no one seemed to know what happened, no one said a word. A few stops later the lady got off the bus at her stop and went on her way. Miracles.

Thursday we had to book it to Reu for my companion's Spanish test and then the left for the temple on Friday. I went with Elder Saxton for the morning (he's our financial secretary and lives the closest to Minnesota!)  It was super cool! He's a great missionary! Then we've just been sharing the video of ha Nacido un Salvador! It's been awesome! 

On Saturday we got to go with our converts to the temple! We brought a few and we got to go in with a guy named Pablo to do baptisms for the first time. He loved it, especially since just on Friday he baptized his mom! he's a super cool guy!

On the way to the temple, our bus broke so we went out helping the nearby people until they sent us another one!

Elder Aceituno and I 

It was cold that day. I decided to try the scarf I found. 

It was super warm and might be my new style…;) haha just kidding!

Then I headed to Pajapita to organized some of the activities they wanted to do with their ward. On Sunday we got to go watch the Devocional Navideno! It was incredible! It called my attention a lot about how Jesus is the Light. The light of our lives and our world. I love it! I also heard the coolest talk the other day about the scriptures by Todd B. Parker called "true doctrine understood changes attitude and behavior. You should all look it up! It blew my mind! 

Have a great week everyone! When I talk to you next week I'll have a new companion again! Hopefully, he's not too close to finishing his mission as my last two have been but it's gonna be awesome!

Love,

Elder Pugmire

I got the Christmas package last week! It's great! I'll save the presents to open them with you guys on the 23! Thanks so much, Mom! Just the speaker I'm going to have to wait to find something to connect to it. Since I haven't had my iPods.  But no worries thank you so much!