CHANGES!!! Alrighty, what a week! This week was crazy! We started off by receiving all of the new missionaries on Tuesday! We got 6 new Hermanas and 1 Elder! We got to stay for the meeting and then we delegated the training meeting to all of the Hermanas and some other missionaries.
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| New Missionaries |
Then I and my companion went to tell all the Zones the changes. Then while my companion, Elder Morataya, went to a family night I was companions with Elder Heath for a few hours! He's the new Elder that came into the mission! HE'S SO COOL! He's from North Carolina and is the man! We went and ate at the mission house and then I cut his hair. Yes, that's right mom! Finally putting those hair clippers to work! It didn't turn out that bad either! It wasn't anything too special though. He and his trainer are going to be the best companionship out there!
Then on Wednesday, we had changes! MY NEW COMPANION IS SO AWESOME!!! His name is Elder Kahl and by far is the best companion I've had so far! He's from Fort Collins, Colorado, and man, what more can I say? It's going to be the greatest 3 changes ever!
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| Me and my new companion elder Kahl! |
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| Elder Kahl counting some coins |
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| Me, Elder Kahl, Elder Ramos, and Elder Sandoval |
We ran to get all of the changes done, and it all went really smoothly, except for the fact that somehow Elder Medina never got notified that he had changes so on Thursday we had to go and help him get to his new area. But on Wednesday we had the testimony meeting of the missionaries that were going home and then went to the mission house to eat with Presidente and Hna Ruiz.
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| The missionaries that left. (Editors note: this appears to be a serious photo but it looks like Elder Solorio, must be standing on something.) |
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Me and Elder Peterson
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| Me and Elder Solorio |
I'm going to miss Elder Morataya so much! I haven't said too much about him but he really is incredible. He is the most animated missionary ever! Even to his very last minute in the mission he was smiling and animating everyone to give their best! He's been such a good example to me.
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| Elder Morataya |
Thursday we had to run up to San Marcos and bring ELder Medina to Coatepeque and we helped the Zone leaders move some stuff from the Pajapita house. Since that we were working on the new welcome to the mission video that we are going to make and we have been fixing all of the data of the mission for the next meetings we're going to have this week.
General conference was amazing! We haven't heard all of it because my companion and I were delivering lunches to all of the Zones and also looking for investigatores to bring to conference but we have them downloaded and we're excited to listen to conference on the long car rides!
We had one miracle happen in our area! the last 30 minutes of the last session of conference we were out on the street trying to bring people in to watch conference and we contacted this one lady in her house and invited her. She told us she would have gone if she had known earlier but that now she didn't have time to get ready and get to the church. So we said, "well how about we just put it on your TV and we can watch the rest of it right here with you?" She disappeared into her house and we thought she had just left us hanging but she came right back and we got a little conference session going with her! And she loved it! We watched the last two speakers and then we taught her the restoration. Then as she was giving the closing prayer she started to cry. The spirit was really testifying that what we were teaching was true. She told us she worked in the Capital but really wants us to come and visit her the next time in town. She accepted a date to be baptized! If she comes to church a few times she can totally be the miracle we've been looking for! Hope conference was great for you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
We had to clean up this leaf that fell inside the church grounds. It wasn’t your average-sized leaf.
Taco salad. Elder Kahl and I started a fitness group! We have like 18 missionaries going to the gym in the morning! Presidente and Hna Ruiz might start coming too!
OHHHH STORY OF THE WEEK!!!!
APRIL FOOLS DAY!
So we were driving home from Coatepeque when Elder Kahl remembered that it was April 1st the next day. So we quickly formulated a plan to prank the office. But we needed it to be realistic so we called Presidente Ruiz and first, we taught him what April Fool's Day was, and then explained our plan. He was so pumped!
Our plan was that at 7:30 in the morning get a call from Presidente saying that a General Authority was coming and was going to be in the office at 8. Causing us to scramble and get ready and rush to clean up the office a bit. And that’s exactly what happened. Presidente Ruiz called Elder Taylor and let him know and that just set off chaos! We had people showering in the pila and we booked it over to the office. I’ve never seen an office get so clean in so short of a time! But finally, Presidente came and announced ‘’April Fools!’’ It was pretty great! We had some fun calling other people and telling them they had changes as well. It was a great day! Anyways. That's the other story of the week.
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