So the first thing I would like to mention is that all of a sudden President Collado decided that he wanted to cut the emailing time way shorter, so now I only have less than half of the time that I had originally! I'm not a huge fan of that change to be completely honest, but I have to adapt to that one.
So as far as my week goes, it was pretty busy! We started off with an unexpected day with the assistant to the president, Elder Oliva! He called us up on Tuesday morning asking for a favor, to see if we could help him out because he didn't have a companion for the day. We were of course willing to help. His companion left for home this week finishing his mission, so we spent the first half of the day in our area working and then the second half in his area. The whole time was spent as a trio which was weird. But at the end of the day we helped the missionary that was leaving take all of his luggage to the taxi and see him off. After all was said and done, we headed back to our area and left Elder Oliva with the other assistants, and we went to dinner. After dinner, we actually got lost on the way home, not a huge deal...but it took us a while to find our way back.
Wednesday, we had a meeting that started at 7:30 in the morning with a general authority. A member of the 70, elder Alonso came and taught us a little bit. He was really great, and really motivated me to work a lot harder and try always to be better. He also taught us a new way to contact: "Hello, we are missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we are here to prepare people to receive a baptism in the only true church on the face of the earth." After putting it into practice, it has actually proved to be pretty useful. He was really great to listen to. I think he is also part of the reason that President felt he should cut the email time. He influenced that change just a bit I think, so I don't know how I feel about that ;)
On Thursday we had an activity where other missionaries came to help us in our area for a little while. Eight missionaries came from Puerto Cabezas, an area in the mission, for the meeting on Thursday that they had, and afterward they came to our area and we had an open house sort of thing at the church! It turned out pretty well and 22 people got a tour of the building in a span of about an hour! We were also planning on visiting all of these people, after taking down their directions and phone numbers, but a problem arose with that one. Basically our mission leader here is not the best. He was put in charge of that part of the activity, to write down the names and directions and such, but he did it in such a manner that I think it can only be interpreted with the Urim and Thumum (if you don't know what those are ask your local missionaries ;) ) so basically we only profited a little from that activity.
Our mission leader in the ward is almost never willing to help us which is a real problem, because missionary work without the members is soooooooo hard. He doesn't even go to church himself hardly. We asked him why he wasn't at church this week and he responded that he had to go play tennis..... and when we did the activity on Thursday, aside from messing up badly with the list of people, he also brought a bunch of books that he wanted to sell....
I was on divisions with My zone leader Elder Clark, and we had a sort of funny but frustrating experience on Sunday morning. We were in his area and we were passing by to help an investigator get up and ready for church. We then passed by again, about an hour later and talked to the lady that was sitting in the front room. We asked if we could talk to Rafael, and she said that he wasn't there, that he had left the day before.... Then I said "that's interesting, because he was just here an hour ago." So she responded saying that he didn't want anyone to come in, that they would just bother him. We said we only wanted to come in to say hi and that was all. She said we couldn't come in because the dog would bite us, so we asked her to show us the dog. She called for the dog and nothing ever showed up. There was a surprising lack of dog. So to justify, she told us that Rafael was sick and couldn't have any visitors. Elder Clark asked what he had, and she said only that he was sick, and that he was in the hospital for the 15 days previous. Then elder Clark said that was impossible because he was in church the week before. After that she just told us that she wanted us to leave, so we respected that. Frustrating that we caught her in several lies in a matter of about 10 minutes.
Our mission leader in the ward is almost never willing to help us which is a real problem, because missionary work without the members is soooooooo hard. He doesn't even go to church himself hardly. We asked him why he wasn't at church this week and he responded that he had to go play tennis..... and when we did the activity on Thursday, aside from messing up badly with the list of people, he also brought a bunch of books that he wanted to sell....
I was on divisions with My zone leader Elder Clark, and we had a sort of funny but frustrating experience on Sunday morning. We were in his area and we were passing by to help an investigator get up and ready for church. We then passed by again, about an hour later and talked to the lady that was sitting in the front room. We asked if we could talk to Rafael, and she said that he wasn't there, that he had left the day before.... Then I said "that's interesting, because he was just here an hour ago." So she responded saying that he didn't want anyone to come in, that they would just bother him. We said we only wanted to come in to say hi and that was all. She said we couldn't come in because the dog would bite us, so we asked her to show us the dog. She called for the dog and nothing ever showed up. There was a surprising lack of dog. So to justify, she told us that Rafael was sick and couldn't have any visitors. Elder Clark asked what he had, and she said only that he was sick, and that he was in the hospital for the 15 days previous. Then elder Clark said that was impossible because he was in church the week before. After that she just told us that she wanted us to leave, so we respected that. Frustrating that we caught her in several lies in a matter of about 10 minutes.
Spiritual Thought:
DON'T LIE, BE HONEST!
Love you all and have a great week!!!
Elder Moser
pics this week...
DON'T LIE, BE HONEST!
Love you all and have a great week!!!
Elder Moser
pics this week...
I bought a new bag, but I didn't think about how it would stain my shirt if it got wet...Ooops!
We made some pupusas for p-day today. Super awesome!
Don't judge us, we are the only Elders in our district...
Random photos from Hno. Barker at the meeting.
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