This week was good. On Tuesday night we had tacos as a group with the other missionaries near our house. In their house its two zone leaders and two regular elders. One of the zone leaders was on splits (apparently he's always chewing out the other people in the house), so they decided to throw a taco party and we were invited. The tacos were good as always and we made it all the way until Saturday before we got in trouble, but not too much trouble.
Thursday we had a conference in Puebla, so we got to go into the big city. It was a good conference and here are the highlights: We were shown a house of some missionaries that had cat poo on the floor, so now cleaning the houses has become a big issue. Hermana Nelson, the wife of the mission president, doesn't really know how to speak any Spanish. So, she started to say something in English and the President got mad at her and told her to talk slower if she wanted him to translate. My Christmas packages finally arrived, so I got Christmas in January. Finally, after it was all over we got cemitas. We went to a shop that a member owns and when we tried to pay her she insisted that they were free, so we got amazing cemitas for free.
On Thursday we went to the house of a person we contacted a week ago and this time he didn't want to hear anything we had to say (thanks Jehovah Witnesses). He told us we should go to a seminary (we told him gracias, but we already have 4 years of seminary). Then he was under the impression that our missions were for our whole lives and we got paid to preach the gospel. Needless to say it was a fruitless lesson with him, but a good lesson to remember not to become a bitter old man.
Luckily Thursday got better and we wound up finding the house of some members who have been inactive for around 10 years. The husband has gone anti-mormon and is leaving the family, but the daughter and wife came to church with us on Sunday. Before we left I gave a blessing to the wife and it was alright as far as blessings in Spanish for me go. After we went to the church where we taught one of our investigators named Evelyn. I don't think I've talked about her, but shes getting married to her boyfriend that was inactive on the 3rd and were going to baptize her on the 10th. My comp is going to do the baptism and i'm doing the confirmation the next day. Wish me luck, hopefully I don't forget the name of the Church or forget to confer the Holy Ghost. After we taught them, we left the classroom and a man from the other ward asked if we could give a blessing. We thought it was just going to be a regular blessing, but when we walked into the classroom, a man was on the ground having a seizure. My comp had me give the blessing and its a good thing that God knows the desires of our hearts and doesn't only listen to our words. After a minute his wife came in and helped him calm down and all was good.
On Saturday we had the first rain storm I've seen here and of course Saturday was also the first day in all my time here that I wasn't carrying my umbrella. My comp didn't have his so we made it back to our house to get them before it started raining too hard. The rain here is a lot more and a lot longer than Utah rain, but it was a nice change of scenery.
I also got all the letters that the family and ward sent. Thank you all!
Adios
Elder Warburton
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