Jared Barton's Mexican Fiesta

Hola!

Another week in Armas! It was kind of a rough week. First, we had a family of 6 drop us...it was really hard. The family consists of the Grandma, her son who´s like 30 years old, his GF, and 3 kids that aren´t their´s together. The grandma is really tough, because her attitude is rough. She had a rough life, and she told us she made herself how she is because of her life. We came by on Friday afternoon, and found the grandma, her son, and another guy with them drinking alcohol. They were slightly drunk, and it caught us by surprise, because we didn´t know that would be a problem. So we tried to talk to them for 5 minutes, but it didn´t work. They kept offering us some, and the 3 kids were just chilling out in the room with all that going on. So we just decided to leave, and the grandma got all offended. She thought we were judging her by leaving, and she told us not to come back. It was really sad because we loved them, especially the kids. The 3 kids were 13, 10, and 6 years old. It was really sad because we thought of those kids growing up there. Later on that night, we saw them walking in the street. Every single one of them ignored us. We are pretty sure the grandma turned them all against us. So that was rough...and we also lost another family of 4 just because we were tired of trying to find them at their house. Because they were never there. Besides investigators, we had our shower plug up. The water only goes down really slowly, usually it takes the whole day. We kept showering with our sandals and everything, and my comp ended up with a foot infection. He´s fine, and we went to a doctor for him and everything, but I somehow avoided it. We are trying to fix it, but it´s hard when you work all day. So we ended up moving some chairs in there to stand on. haha try not to imagine...it was pretty fun...not. One cool thing that happened this week was we ate lunch made by our baptism from 1 week ago. He made us salad and chicked. It was a mountain of salad, and a bunch of pieces of chicken. It was cool to eat with a recent convert. Also, Hermano Sanchez in our ward (the representative of the church) gave me this cool jaguar statue thing and like 8 light up pens from his company. haha. I´ll send the pictures in a minute. Lastly, in our zone meeting this last week, we did a practice on Inspired Questions. Which basically, are questions that make the investigator realize that this is the true church. I was nervous because I´m still not good at coming up with good questions. So my comp and I started and we were listening to another missionary act out an investigator. We were teaching, and all of a sudden I had it. I asked it, and stunned the investigator. haha. I realized that I can´t plan what I´m going to say, I just need to be diligent in listening and paying attention to promptings. Also, if you guys can, I need the email address of Shawn Morley. Brandon Morley´s dad. An hermano in my ward wants it, they were companions in the mission field. His name is Hermano Fuentes. He´d really appreciate that. I have a lot of funny pictures to send from this week so I better go. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton