He´s a way cool guy, and he works hard, so we went to Duvergé, and contacted for about 6 hours straight! It was pretty fun though. I always like contacting, because you always get to meet a few crazies, and I think almost all of the crazy mission stories come from contacting! Then when Elder Mayhew and I got to his apartment, we got ourselves a pizza (not quite as good as Little Caesar´s, but the best pizza I´ve ever had in this country), and we reflected on how crazy the difference was between when we contacted in the CCM, and now that we´ve had a bit of experience out here. I´ll tell you what, the difference is HUGE! There were moments when I thought I´d never learn the language, but everything comes with work, time, and the Lord´s help.
Later in the week, we ran into this preacher/pastor that lives next to our chapel, and he started asking questions about Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon, so later on in the week, we swung by to answer some of his questions. We decided to give him lesson one so that we could answer his questions, but we never even ended up getting past the first 2 pages of the pamphlet. We basically had a bible bash that wasn´t really a bible bash with him. We started talking about prophets, and then he would ask what we thought a prophet was, who were some examples of prophets, and he´d explain to us that moses was a prophet, and did lots of stuff, and we´d be like: "yeah, we know that, but let´s get back on subject", and he´d be like "oh yeah, sorry" and we´d explain a tiny bit more, and then he´d cut in again. It ended up being an alright lesson, but he got hung up on a bunch of things, so we´ll see how it goes with him. I think he just invited us over to try to prove us wrong or something, but it´s not a huge deal, because he didn´t know a TON of what he was talking about. As the dominicans say, he told us a lot of "pura vaina".
Then, on Saturday we had our baptism! It was kind of funny, because she decided to ask Elder Capellan (the other Elder in our district) to baptize her. Oh well! It doesn´t really matter who performs the ordinance, what matters is by what authority it's performed. It was really neat, and I´m really happy for her! Also, this week we had "El Domingo de Invitados" (Sunday of invites) and it went REALLY well! We normally have about 90 people maximum in our ward, but yesterday we had 138 people! It was great, and I think that a lot of those people are some great future investigators! The only problem yesterday, is that we had 3 talks, and two of them went for about half an hour each, a choir number, the sacrament for 138 people, with only 3 trays, and 4 confirmations, AND we started sacrament meeting a little late, so instead of ending at 10:00, we ended at about 11:00. Haha, yeah... I just hope we didn´t scare people away from ever coming back to another sacrament meeting.
But yeah! That was my week! It was a success, and we worked hard! There´s nowhere I´d rather be than right here in Neyba York. It´s been interesting for me in the mission because I always thought I knew everything about the gospel, until I had to teach it. And do it all in another language. I´ll tell you one thing, I have learned a LOT, and I´ve still got a long way to go, but one thing I really enjoyed finding this week was the way Moroni explains the gospel of Christ, and the connections between all of the principle in Moroni 8:25-26. It was a lot of fun to look through that, and figure out when he´s talking about which principle. I´d highly reccomend a mini study of those two verses.
Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks for being the best family in the world. I love you guys so much, and I hope your week is incredible!
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Love, Elder Anderson
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