Futbol, Creedence, and Weddings

This week our whole district was hurting because we played futbol for three hours last Monday. Attached is a picture of the district, but don't let the smiles fool you, we were all in pain.

On Tuesday our ward mission leader, David, finally went out teaching with us and it was an experience to say the least. He went with us to teach two investigators named Silveria and Esteban. Esteban is 17 and has a drug problem and Silveria is his mom. They're both really great, but teaching them with David was a bit strange. He's a really intense person, so when he Esteban said he would like to change David went off saying "SI TU NO QUIERES CAMBIAR NO VAS A CAMBIAR" (IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE) the caps is not an exaggeration. They came to church on Sunday though, so it looks like they weren't scared. At the end of the lesson Esteban gave the closing prayer and it was pretty funny. He said everything in the form of a question that ended with "no?" So for example he said "thanks for these missionaries no?" "Thanks for this guy that came with the missionaries no?"

On Wednesday we were contacting and no one would open their door for us. While we were contacting one house, a house across the street started playing some Creedence Clear Water, so I was thinking "all right, no one wants to talk to us, but at least we have some good music." When we finished the contact (unsuccessful) the music across the street stopped, so I was bummed. However, when we turned the guy who had been playing the music waved us over and he said he wanted to hear what we had to say since nobody else would listen to us. We ended up teaching him and his daughter and they both accepted a date for baptism.

We found out who our new president is this week. His name is President Barron and he is a native Mexicano, so all the latinos are pretty excited about that. He is 43 and has 4 kids all 13 or under. Ill send my full report of what I think of him as soon as we meet him.

On Saturday the investigator we have been teaching, Evelyn, had her wedding. We got to go to part of it and it was pretty similar to a wedding in the States. We sat with the grooms family and it was hilarious because the whole time his mom was talking bad about the venue and the food which is all paid for and chosen by the brides family. They did have a mariachi band playing, so that was cool.

We had some more emergency changes today and now we only have one zone leader, so that's pretty weird. Who knows maybe i'll be zone leader in a week when we have changes again.

Adios

Elder Warburton

The picture with the crepes is me and the district leader