This week was really cool. District Leaders have to do 24 hour exchanges with all the other elders in their districts. So in my district there (Other than the zone leaders and the sisters in Garden City) are Lindville and Elder Simmonds. They are in Scott City. So if you think that Garden City is small, think again. Garden City is actually decent size. I think....or maybe I am just desensitized from all the small towns here in the west size of Kansas. Scott City is tiny. I guess its probably a lot like that town that bishop Dahl is from,. On the border of California, and Arizona. If you blinked you would miss it. But its pretty small. So I went out there with Elder Lindville for a day. And elder Lindville is waiting for visa to Brazil. So he speaks some Portuguese. And Elder Simmons is English elder and didn't speak any Spanish. So I went down there, and we had an awesome day. We randomly knocked on the mayors door. and had a lesson with him and he committed to reading the book of Mormon,. So that was cool. But then than night we knocked into a Spanish family of five. And we had a short lesson with them, and they all accepted to be baptized next month. But the problem is that the elders in Scott don't speak Spanish. So they are having an emergency transfer to get a Spanish elder out there in Scott. Then president called me and told me to quit causing him problems. He he was joking.
We had a big conference for our zones Garden City and Dodge City on Friday, and it was really good and uplifting. Sister Peat, I guess the equivalent to Sister Bambas here in Garden City. Her dog had six puppies 2 girls, 4 boys, and two of the boys are brown. So every one of the missionaries gets one named after them. And it worked out perfectly because elder Maki is Samoan and Gomez is from Guatemala, there are two white sisters, and us two white elders all here in Garden.
Hopefully we can get a dinner with some white people, so we have a traditional thanksgiving dinner.
There is a saying in Kansas " if you don't like the weather, wait
ten minutes". And it is right on. The weather here is always changing.
You saw those pictures I sent you were exactly a week ago. Well I'm
wearing a short sleeve shirt again. Its like a high of 60. Really nice
weather. But tomorrow's high is apparently 31 and snow. You can't trust the weather reports here on the west
side of Kansas, because they are all too small to have their own
weather system, so all of the reports come out of Wichita which is 4
hours away.
Thanksgiving
started out all right. I really would have rather been
home with all the family. But it couldn't have been better. We went to
the wards turkey bowl in the morning, with elders Stopper and Maki. It
was freezing, and windy, but it ended up super fun, and we played for 2
hours. Elder Maki played professional rugby for Barcelona and England,
and I never realized how much of an athlete he was until we
went. He is a huge guy, but faster than anyone else, and everyone just
got out of his way when he began to run. But the turkey bowl was fun.
Then
we went to an investigators house to eat. His name is
Ambrossio Valderez. He and his wife don't have a super big house, but
they are super involved in an adoption program, where they take in
kids that are under 18 and have committed a felony. The kids just stay
at their house until their parole is up. So over they last few years
they
have taken in 53 kids. It's pretty cool, they are great people, and the
kids that lived with them always come back to visit, so they're were
just
tons of people in and out of the house the whole time! It was tons of
fun.
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| Me and Daniel in the Tiendita |
Then we went to Daniel Gonzalez's "tiendita" to visit with him. He
is a great guy. He has only been a member for just over a year, but he
is easily one of the strongest members that exist.
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| Daniel and Elder Gomez |
But
we just visited with him for a little bit, and then we went to
the Familia Carrera. Also some great people. We walked just and they
were about to begin dinner. And they invited us in and we ate a
thanksgiving dinner with all of them. I honestly thought that none of
the Latinos would celebrate thanksgiving, but some of them do, so we
ended
up getting a few really good meals.
Then after that we went to one last house to eat, a less active
family the Romeros. They invited all 6 of us missionaries to eat with
them. They are an awesome family. I guess I didn't share they story with
you of how we found them...We were in the IBP trailer park one day, just
visiting people, and looking through the ward roster of less active
members we could visit, and there was a lady in there, but it said
that she had moved, and i knew she had, because I know here, and know
she lives in Scott city. But i have a feeling that we should try the
house anyway, although i knew she had moved. So we went to the house
and The same lady, sister Augilar opened the door. Apparently the family
that lives there hadn't been to church in a year and never opend the
door to missionaries because they had been offended by something at
church. And the active Sister Augilar, was just visiting them from Scott City for a day. But since she opened the door she let us in and we got
to talk with the family! we got to be really good friends with them, and
they are coming back to church, and even invited all the missionaries
over for dinner, although just 5 days before they never wanted anything
to do with the church.Cool.
But anyway they had us over for our third and final full
thanksgiving dinner, and we were all soooo full. It ended up being a great
day.!
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