Monday, February 20, 2017

My First Spanish Joke & Tortillas!!

Well, another week down!

My companion is Elder Sanchez, and wow we are good friends, like right off the bat! Im still here in Cerro Grande, and we're working super hard together. He's a viejo (old) in the mission, he has 20 months here in the field. He's learning English and, the truth, he's pretty good at it, so we talk in English somedays and Spanish the others. It's really fun to work with him, and that's fact.

Things that happened this week!!!

For starters, I had divisions with the Zone Leaders, so I went to work with one of them for a day. That was super crazy, and super fun. Our Zone Leaders are super chill. That's something I've really lucked out on I guess... All the leaders here in the city are super cool. But while we were on divisiones, we took a ride with a member to a chapel for a meeting with the Stake Presidente and Mission Presidente, and on the way -- We got rear ended!! Like hard! Haha! But the member that was driving was so stinking cool, he got out of the car and the girl that hit him was young and was crying and super startled, and the member literally just comforted her and said 'hey don't worry about it, nothing happend' and we left on our way. And literally when we got out of the car, it was as if nothing happened!! There was like no damage!! Don't know how it's possible, but that happened!  It's like when we make mistakes like this young girl did, if we sincerely repent, the Lord forgives us like this member forgave this girl - and 'remembers no more' like it never happened. His forgiveness really is that powerful, and can be even more impactful then just walking away from an accident with no damage or injury.

Also this week, a menos activo member went to church!!  And this guy is like 70 and doesn't speak a lick of Spanish... So guess who got to translate 3 hours worth of information??  Yup, this guy! :D  I've really come to appreciate what a gift it is to be able to understand different languages. I think growing up with Dad being bilingual, I just took it for granted and didn't appreciate it enough.  But it's a gift!  And Wow I have come to know the gift of tongues in a very personal way!! It's crazy to me that being so young in the mission I can translate in real time Spanish to English... that's kinda cool right??

Also I learned a joke in Spanish!!!

Guy #1  'oye, vato, hablas ingles verdad?'
Guy #2  'claro que si'

Guy #1  come se dice 'pan'?
Guy #2  'bread'

Guy #1  y come se dice 'que'?
Guy #2  'what'

Guy #1  y 'panqueque'? 
Guy #2  'breadwhatwhat'

Hahahahahahahah!!!  I think that joke is hilarious - so excuse me for laughing out loud here in the ciber! I feel like Mom is gonna like that joke and maybe Aunt Jen too, but other than that maybe not to many people hahahaha (Mom and Aunt Jen I totally dig your guys sense of humor!) :D

But hey, Okay, back to this week -- we found the most chosen person in the world this past week, and I think I mentioned how great she was last week, but I didn't really know how chosen she was until this week!!  So originally we found a less active teenager, who's like 17 years old or something.  So we went to visit him and chat with him a bit, but he wasn't home. So we ended up talking to his little sister. She's 13, has listened to the missionaries before, but never was interested. Nevertheless, we started to teach her this past week.  Long story short, she's freaking awesome!  And when we talked about baptism she said she was super excited and she has a really strong desire to get baptized!  She's already started attending church and going to youth activities, and she talked with one of the leaders there about baptism and told her that she wants to be a missionary when she's older!!!  How cool is that!?!

Honestly, it's people like her that remind me why I'm out here - walking miles everyday, talking with people every day that both accept and reject us. It's like mining or something like that. Sometimes it's a lot of hard work with very little reward, but if we keep at it we'll eventually find something really precious, super valuable and totally amazing! :) And I already know that this girl is just that!  But she definitely won't be 'my' convert, but a convert of the Lord. He is the one who prepared her, and it's the Holy Ghost that testifies the truth and changes hearts.  I'm just happy He's allowing me to be part of her story.

Again, I'm just like super duper grateful for everything that I've been given here in Mexico. It's such a unique and awesome chance that I have to be here, and I'm just so grateful.  I hope all of you guys are super awesome and are loving life and yea, that's pretty much all I've got for this week. 





OHHHH actaully today Elder Sanchez and I made flour tortillas with an investigator family - familia Andazola!!! That was awesome and Wow, the flour tortillas here are AMAZING! (but I have to watch it and not get carried away every time we eat em -- because it's super easy to gain weight with those!!) Haha! :)

But hey, until next week,
Nick :)

Special Bonus for Nick's family at home!!  Our first 'selfie' sent from a member in Mexico!!  Such a treat to get an unexpected pic of our Missionary, and we get to make a new friend too!!  It's like double prizes!! :D


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