This week was supèr super awesome! On Thursday we had a talent show at the church planned by the missionary department in San Martin, more people showed up than come to church! and it was so much fun! Valeriano did a hula dance, I sang Adele and the four of us did a gangster dance. Every organization did some sort of act and it was really fun and funny I was screaming my head off like the whole time, they all think canches are crazy...and we found a family out of it, win win.
On Friday we had a zone workshop, I LOVE my new zone. Everyone is so awesome and we meet in the biggest, newest, most beautiful and air conditioned chapel in all of guatemala. I love being in a small zone because we can all get to know each other really well and do more fun things, like go mini golfing like we did this morning. So anyway... we had our workshop and it was SOOO GOOD! Elder Jorgensen, elder contreras, and a member, Wilder, all gave a little workshop and they were all way good, I learned so much. Let me just tell you a little about this wilder dude. So he is a convert, got baptized like one year ago. So he was talking about the restoration, how important that lesson is, how we can teach it better, ideas and stuff and I literally have never felt the spirt so strong in my entire life, I could not take my eyes off of him because I didnt want to miss one word he said, he probably thought I was so weird and creepy. So I go up to him after to ask him what mission he served in and he tells me, oh im 18, Im preparing for my mission, WHAT. he is going to baptize the whole planet and probably take over the world. So he told me a little bit of his conversion story. He said that before he met the missionaries he was a pastor for an evangelic church (evangelics are crazy nuts, they get up on buses street corners and scream and sing and thrust the espiritu santo upon people and all this weird stuff.) So he meets the missionaries, and they start to chat, at the end of the lesson he tore off the elders missionary tag and broke it in half and threw it on the ground.he said that the Elder picked up his tag, looked him in the eyes and said ÿou are going to be the best and most powerful missionary¨ and Wilder was like I will never ever be a missionary and I will never ever be a mormon and the Elder was like, we´ll see. So some time passed and 2 different elders passed by,he listened,long story short, he said he prayed everyday for 18 days to know if the restoration was true and the 18th day he told the elders, sorry, but I cant be baptized, I have prayed and the lord has not given me an answer so the elders were like okay, lets go, we are going to pray together. So they prayed and he said he felt such a strong spirt and then heard a voice say, bienvenido which means welcome. And he opened his eyes and all three of them were crying. So he got baptized and not one member came to the service because they all hated him and told the elders that they were stupid and that Wilder was only getting baptized to steal money from the church and a bunch of other crap. And when he got baptized his family kicked him out of the house so he lived with the elders for 2 weeks, then his family got over it, Wilder taught them the restauración and they got bap.
So anyway… thats Wilder. He literally is the most incredible teacher. So then on Saturday it was my comps birthday. We decorated her room, ate cake with Mario and his super fun cool family , I think she had a good day. Alright, well I love you lots and lots and I am glad to hear that you are getting better and better every day. love, hermana Outsen
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