Haven't heard anything from the Catholic house, haven't stopped by there in a while.
This weeks news is pretty good, the first half of the week was really good and the second half was kind of a let down but the highlights are as follows:
Tuesday:
Nothing much happened, we had dinner with the Ramos family and had enchiladas, a little different than the way us white folk make them but they were delicious (I will definitely teach you how to make some good Mexican food when I get back) other than that we just tried visiting people that we hadn't seen in a while so that was about it.
Wednesday:
We went to McAllen to see President Torres, he said my Spanish was coming along really well which was nice to hear. We got back at around 1 and then went out and visited some more people and that was about it.
Thursday:
We had a really good day today, we biked the military highway to Havana and knocked a few doors there. After that we drove out to Pueblo de Palmas and knocked some houses out there in the ghetto and we also tried to find some addresses of people that were in our records that lived out there and we had a little success.
Friday:
We had coordination with the ward mission leader Brother Guerrero and then had lunch. We drove out to Pueblo de Palmas (PDP) for a return appointment and they weren't home (classic PDP) then we visited some people in Havana and once again had a return appointment with some people we had met and once again none of them were home. We saw an abandoned house up in Havana and we looked around in it. A door started opening so we bolted out of there. (We are pretty sure it was the wind but we didn't want to stay and find out). Then to end the day more people cancelled on us so it was pretty boring.
Saturday:
The stake is really pushing for each ward to have 50 people print a name from family history so they can take it to the temple so they had a big activity Saturday morning to have people in the ward come print names, about 15 people showed up so it was a little disappointing but it's okay. Afterwards we went to the Hernandez's house (he is the elders quorum president) and we were going to start a fast with them because long story short they haven't been to the Temple and they aren't illegal but they have visas so they have to ask for permission to get past the checkpoint to get up to temple so we were going to fast with them so they could get permission sooner. They are a really nice family of 4 they have 2 little girls and so we really want them to get sealed because that is the next step for them. However when we went over to start the fast sister Hernandez was saying she was angry at Brother Hernandez (her husband) because he had offended her. We left and went out to Sullivan City to have an appointment and they weren't there. So then we went down to the Rio because there is a little ferry 3 miles away from Sullivan City in a little town called Los Ebanos, so we went down to the Rio and had Spanish study while we looked over across the water to Mexico, that was a little weird. We also saw an abandoned house so we went and looked around and that got real creepy real quick so we bolted out of there in a hurry. Then we went to continue with our plans but they all cancelled so we called Brother Hernandez to see how he was doing. We went to his Taqueria (taco shop) that he is working on opening and talked with him for a bit and kind of listened to him complain which was annoying but we did end up starting a fast with him. It was nice but we hadn't eaten since 5 and it was 9, we also hadn't had any water since 5 so we were a little annoyed. But we made progress.
Sunday:
Today was once again a little disappointing, only 76 people came to church (slightly less than average for this ward) and none of our investigators showed up. Then we had English class afterwards and everyone was talking about previous English classes they had taken and how what they did to teach English in the class had worked really well, except they were telling us this in..... Spanish. Elder Shipley and I were the only 2 people in that room that could Speak English. So nice try, then we asked how many of them had spoken English during the past week and they all said no. So then we told them the hard truth and said that if they wanted to learn English it didn't matter what we did in the class it mattered what they did during the week. After that all of our appointments fell through. So finally at 7 we went to the Hernandez's house and had dinner with them and us and Brother Hernandez broke our fasts. That was kind of nice and then we had a mini family home evening with them and that was really fun.
That was the week. How is life back in Oregon?
Love you guys and talk to you next week
Love,
Elder Goodbaudy
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