Week 19...12/15/14...Choir Concert

Holy cow this week was amazingly crazy! I've also realized that my letters are pretty boring and I apologize. I'm gonna try to make things a little more interesting. ANYWAY... This week was crazy!!!

Tuc Tuc. . . what we use to get around in.

This Tuesday we had our meetings for changes! WOW! Our zone had a ton! Elder Cook is headed out! Yes, Mom the same Elder Cook whose parents you talked with. He's probably my best friend that I had in the zone and a straight-up beast.

Elder Cook

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Elder Keck and Elder Cook. . .  Some of my best friends in the zone that are headed out to another area. Doing the ''KECK''

On Wednesday we got a bunch of new people! Elder Gonzalez left and we got Elder Solorio to come and finish training Elder Toala! 

                                              Here's the last photo of the boys in San Pablo.

Elder Solorio speaks really English really well. He really didn't have any special classes to learn he just would always listen to English music and movies. He got the MTC and realized he could understand the Nortes!  He's really cool and from Mexico and was the trainer of one of the guys in my CCM District, Elder Mattson. In our district, we got 2 new Elders that are gonna be training! Our zone is sooooo new! We also got a brand new District Leader, Elder Lovett! He's super cool! 

The Zone Board

This week we had some crazy things happen. First of all, we gave this service where you get all of the corn off the cob. But you don't use a knife. Just your fingers. MAN If got the worst blisters ever! They were all dried out but man it hurts to type. 

But the crazy thing is that we were with this 12-year-old girl that filled up probably double the amount of corn we did in less than an hour. That in its self was definitely a lesson of humility. I am just happy that I don't have to degrain corn all of the time because every time I touch the space bar with my thumb I'm sure my blister is about to pop. ;(

This week we ran into some incredible investigators. We got them as references from some of the only members in our area. All of the other ones are in the other San Pablo area near Santa Domingo and Tocache. It's this lady named Gladys whose husband died 3 years ago and she has 6 kids. They're super poor but they are super Pilas in going to church (pilas is like the word for.... well I don't know it doesn't really have meaning... basically smart, awesome, cool its a good thing to be pilas.) Hermana Gladys and her hermana have shown up to a church activity the baptism that the other Elders had and the Choir activity last night all on their own. We just have to teach them and I'm sure they will be baptized in the next couple of weeks. It really is an answer to our prayers for miracles this month. Our other 2 baptisms fell through and got postponed so were hoping that eventually they will get baptized this month.

We had this activity this week where we were gonna show some videos including ''El es La Dadiva'' But right as we were about to start with over 70 people in the chapel the lights went out. But instead of canceling, we decided just to start. We ran and grabbed all of our candles from our house and we just had the activity in the dark.

They keep cutting off the lights almost every night which makes it super hot to sleep without a fan because the people don't pay their electricity bill. And there's this guy who puts up the electricity for free that the police are looking for so that's exciting I guess.

Yesterday we had a great choir come! They were made up of 3 stakes in our mission and had a ton of decorations.

The Choir Concert

We had over 400 investigators come in our stake!!! We rented a bus and just filled it up! We brought 3 families that are doing really well! We had lights all outside and then inside the door was a place where the investigators could take their pictures in the stable with the wise men and shepherds and Mary and Joseph and Jesus. Then we got all of their information to then bring their pictures to them so we could contact them later. It was a great program and they even had some songs in English that made me feel right at home!

Choir Decorations for Christmas Concert

Elder Fickes

Anyway, that's about all! Hope everything is well, miss you all! Hope BYU is winning and that everyone is cheering for them. If not... You should probably repent but I won't judge. ;)

Love,

Elder Pugmire