Week 94: Trying to Lift The Area

Hey guys!

Another week of the mission has gone by, and it was a pretty good week!

For pday, we got together as a zone, and we got to do an asado.  A missionary bought like 16 pounds of straight meat, and I got to cook it!  It was actually way good!

This week, we did a lot of street contacts, and we have put the goal of doing a thousand street contacts before I go home.  That would be more than I have ever done in so short of a time, so I will be ending strong!

This week, I have been going through the area book, where it describes all the people that have listened to the missionaries before, and I found a family called the Familia Barrera, so we decided to visit them.  We have gotten to teach them twice now.  They are Seventh Day Adventists, so they have quite a few questions, but we think that they may have some big potential, since the dad, Lucio, came to church with us yesterday!

Also, this week, we were walking down the street, and we were crossing the street, and about to cross behind some buildings, and I looked down the road we were crossing, and I saw a little family.  I felt the need to talk to them, and I had one of those little internal fights since it was gonna look way weird to turn around and go after them.  But, I decided to go, and we stopped the family, and they were awesome!  The mom told us that she listened to missionaries a while ago, but that they stopped going, and that they just lost contact.  So, we got to teach them last night!  

Funny

It has been really cold lately, and it is way cold in the pension.  Yesterday, we were studying, and Elder Vasquez had his hands in his pockets to keep them warm.  I looked over, and he was rubbing his face on his open scriptures.  I was way confused, so I asked him what was going on, and he explained that he didn't want to take his hands out of his pockets, but his face itched haha.  

We stopped a man in the street this week, and he was really quick to reject us, but I wasn't taking it, so I went after him, and wouldn't let him reject us so fast.  He stopped, and said, ¨I can't talk, I´m in a hurry!¨ and grabbed his stomach, basically saying, I am having a bathroom emergency.  It was way awkard.  

A dog came after us, so I bent over to pretend like I was picking up a rock so it would run away.  It worked, but the dog ran to it's house, and when it tried to jump through the bars, it was too fat to slip through haha.  

I love you all, and I know that God is at the head of this work!

Elder Conover


Hoping my shoes can make it through to the end!


Asado!!