This week was great! Monday was PDay, so that always rocks. Tuesday, we taught 4 lessons! In our mission, that happens very rarely. We also found a lady that looks like she's going to become a new investigator, so that's a big miracle. The awesome thing is that that very afternoon we had started a fast to find people, and boom, we found someone!
Here's the crazy part though, Wednesday, WE TAUGHT 4 MORE LESSONS! And not only did we teach 4 more lessons, but we also found ANOTHER lady that looks like she's going to start investigating! When the miracles rain, they pour!
Thurday was a bit more tranqy, I'm pretty sure that I made Loco Mocos that day. Allen has the pics, they looked soooooo good! It was the first packet of that gravy that I've spent so far. Sooooo worth it! (Loco Mocos are basically a burger with gravy and an egg on top.)
Friday was solid, and on Saturday, we taught two lessons in the morning, which never happens! One of the lessons was with Cristian, whom we had taught earlier in the week as well. He's progressing slowly, but surely. The good news is that he's also changed his mind on baptism, and although he still doesn't want to accept a fecha (baptismal date), he told us that he was thinking about getting baptized, so that's a massive change!
Saturday night, the Zone Leaders got permission from Pres to watch the movie that we didn't get to watch on Christmas, so we watched Pets. I'm pretty sure it was a Pixar movie... It was pretty good! It was cool because it was the first movie I've even watched and understood in Spanish. The big brown dog had a porteño accent (the accent of someone from Buenos Aires), so that was legit! Saturday night, nobody had invited us to pass New Years with them, so we decided to sleep it. It's the only time in my mission I have ever slept 10.5 hours (because we had permission to sleep until 8:30am. It. Was. GLORIOUS! So yeah Mom, Elder Jimenez wanted to "go night night" before 2017 (Little Alex always begged to go to bed... "I wanna go night night!!!") It just makes me think of Dad saying "But don't you want to be awake for the new millenium?" LOL.
Yesterday was the perfect ending to a great week. After church, we didn't have any citas (appointments), so we just decided to contact. It was miserable because everyone had just barely woken up (5 in the tarde) and they were all hung over. So we struggled to even find doors that would answer, and we were contacting some apartments, when we knocked a door, and without us saying anything, the lady was like Come on in! So we entered, and met Laura. She's from Formosa, and she has Mormon friends there, so she already knew a little bit about the message. We shared the Restoration with her, and she accepted it so well! The only problem was that, due to a distribution problem that the Church had with Argentina, we still don't have any Libros de Mormon down here. However, she accepted the message so well, and accepted the invitation to read so sincerely, that I left my triple with her. We set another cita for Tuesday morning, so I should be able to get it back before we start full teaching days again, so I'm praying that she's gonna read! It was a cool experience :) (I'm going to be praying for her to keep that appointment too... hopefully he didn't just lose his triple... we won't be able to get another one to him!!! And before this I was just concerned that he wasn't getting any packages with treats - now I'll start praying for the Book of Mormons to arrive!)
Anyways, we ended up exploding this week on our lessons number, and finding a lot of potential investigators. Fasting works!!! So we're doing real well down here. Allen is struggling as much as a new missionary will, but he's happy, so that's what matters.
Mom, I did get the ensign with the ornaments. Priceless! Franny's and what I'm assuming to be Ryan's killed me! The latter with trunkiness and the former with laughter!
Anyways, I hope you guys started an incredible year! I love you all sooooo much and I'm happy to be a part of our family!
Stay safe, be strong in your testimonies, and GO BYU! I LOVE YOU GUYS! Especially you Mom :)
- Elder Jimenez
To Jose...
Wow! I absolutely loved your emails! Your bowl experience made me trunky! You must promise me to take e to the BYU bowl game the year I get home. BTW, go Pats sucka haha!
Anyways, didn't know anything about LaVell, or Carrie Fisher, or Rhonda Rousey, so that was all nuts. It's so crazy that Rousey went from total Bad A to a weakling like that. I was pumped to hear that Urban Meyer got humiliated! Take that stupid AP people! New Years sounds like it was awesome!
Thanks so much for the tips on things I should teach to people! You always say things that help me know what I should teach! I also really liked how you told me a bit about your mission. That helped me. Dad, thanks so much for all you do! I miss yah, I even ate a loco moco this week to honor you staying at the Orleans!
I LOVE YOU! - Elder Son
Believe it or not... It's almost 10 PM!!!
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