Wassup family, this is
Elder Westenstorm coming to you from internet in San Antonio Huista (I
have not had changes yet, but it could come any day haha). Letting you
all know that a grand crisis has been averted. On my memory card all of
my photos were erased... BUT, due to my luck, I have been able to
recover them, so I'm happy for that :) First thing I'm happy about, I'll continue on later about happiness,
but first I'll answer questions.
First off, do we have to bring someone on Pday
adventures? No. But, we don't know any of the cool places here so we
need a guide, that's why we always bring someone haha. If we don't, we
get lost and that's just a super bummer haha. But if we bring someone we
see cool stuff and they know all the secrets and stories and everything
so that always adds to the fun :) What am I gonna do with all my mayan
pot pieces? Sift through them and keep the best ones and bring them home
to give to people :) Because the cool part is that they're actual legit
real pieces of pot, found from me digging in the ground. I kinda felt
like I was at some childrens exhibit in a museum or something but it was
all real :) I love this area.
The pool. We do have a pool in the church. Well,
it's in the yard, it's really just a hole in the earth with tile in it,
there's no cleaning or filter system, you fill it with a hose haha. And
we go to the river because its way cooler to baptize in a river than in the
pool haha. To answer, I think I told but whatever, we watched
conference in Huehue, I was able to see Elder Wimmer but only on Pday haha
Because he's in the other Huehue zone so yeah. And why are people
already excited for me to come back? I have 9 months still :)
Now, why am I so happy? Because we had a GREAT week
topped off by a GREAT day yesterday :) First off, CLEMENTINO WAS
BAPTIZED YESTERDAY :))))))))) It was such a great service, as you can
tell from the picture it was an absolutely beautiful place that we went
to to do the baptism. He was super nervous but afterwords just said he
felt great! His testimony was great that he gave as well. He gets up
(mind you I kinda forgot to tell him that he was going to give his
testimony haha) But he gets up and he's like "my testimony is that this
church is true, that it's the true restored church of Jesus Christ" It
was so great and he wants to go on a mission, imagine it, two future
missionaries in the same area. I think passing 3 changes without
baptisms was worth that :)
ALSO, after I baptized Clementino I had the great
opportunity to give the priesthood to Ogler, he's now officially a priest
:) He'll be blessing the sacrament next week :) So we're super stoked on
that, he's super great!
We also have a new family that we found. We were contacting
their neighbors and the wife comes out and she's like "no hay gente alli"(there's no one there)
and I'm like "y alli con usted?"(and there with you?) she responds "tampoco"(not here either) to which I said
"podemos pasar?"(can we come in?) "pasen si quieren"(if you want) and we passed, and we taught them.
And they liked it :) We're going to see them tonight as well so we'll see
what happens but in an area where it's so hard to find news we feel good
:)
Also, since I was
written by that guy who was here in San Antonio like a million years
ago and he told me that they had a lot of success in Tablon, we've gone
to look for the members down there and we've been finding some less
actives and are teaching some of their family members. I now feel good
about how I'm going to leave this area, baptizing and with success in the
future :) Pablo, unfortunately, fell on his fecha BUT he said
that he has committed himself to be baptized THIS year, so that's good
enough :) He'll do it too :) Like I said, a GREAT week! Changes, I'll be
sure to let you know next week!
LOVE YOU ALL!!!! This is one happy Elder writing you from SAH with love!
Elder Westenskow
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