Letter # 19 - Poison Posole

¡Buenos Dias!

I had a good week. One thing I realized this week is that the mission really changes you. It changes your view on life, your view on people, and just your view on how things should be. I have been trying to just reflect each night before bed, and my perspective on the world is a thousand times different than it was before my mission. My view in what actually makes me happy is different as well. I can clearly see the difference between temporal happiness and eternal happiness now. I just wish I would have seen that before I left on my mission.

Here is my week:

Monday - after P-Day ended, we just went and tried to locate a couple more potentials we have.

Tuesday - we had a district meeting. I gave a training on hope. It went well! We had a lesson with Rosa Avila. She is from Mexico. She is an inactive member! We knocked into her and found her records. She said that when she moved here 16 years ago, she tried to find the church, but never could, so she just went inactive. She has a 10-year-old daughter named Marithza. They are really nice. We also had a lesson with Rodrigo. He is the 9-year-old that got baptized my first transfer here! He is awesome. At night time, we drove down to Henderson and had a lesson with a referral named Eduardo. He would not stop talking haha. He also would not stop bashing the Catholic and Jehovah Witness faiths haha. It was kind of funny to watch.

The Cadena's yard after mowing.

Wednesday - We did a lot of service. We spent an hour helping a member cut up his neighbor's tree that fell down in the last storm. After that, we went back to Anilu Cadenas' house to cut her yard. It took us about 3 hours again. I love doing yard work. The smell of freshly cut grass is heavenly. That night, Hermana Marmolejo brought us dinner at the church. It was this red posole. From now on, that posole will always be called THE posole....

Thursday - THE posole got to Elder Callister. He threw up 2 times during the night, and 3 more times during Thursday. He also had really bad diarrhea. Food poisoning. I felt so bad for him. So I did a lot of reading that day. I am currently doing a study of the Book of Mormon on Remembrance in 6 weeks. It is going well. I am in Mosiah 5 currently. Elder Del Angel came and switched out so that He and I could go to a lesson that Elder Callister and I had with Marithza and Rosa. So Elder Mortensen stayed with Elder Callister. We set a baptismal date with Marithza!

Friday - We spent the day in Henderson. We had some potentials down there that we wanted to go and visit. We didn't see a ton of success, but it was nice to finally spend a lot of time in Henderson trying to do work.


A play for Father's day performed buy the Relief Society

Saturday - Ramon Alba came out with us in the morning. We visited some less active members. It went well. Saturday night was the Branch Father's Day activity. It was a dinner and a show that the Relief Society put on. It was good! AND an inactive family that I have been working with since I got here in Longview came to the activity! The mom and the two daughters have been to church the past 3 weeks, but never the dad. But he came to the activity! He told us he did it for his girls. We will get to him soon enough. I know it.

Sunday - church was great! The Rossow family spoke in church. After church, we ate with them. It was awesome. In Sister Rossow's talk, she threw down about how lots of male members don't live worthy of the priesthood and she related it to how it also makes them unworthy parents! It was pretty awesome to listen to! We had another lesson with Rosa and her daughter Marithza. Marithza told us she is afraid to get baptized because her dad and grandma don't want her to be baptized. It is sad. But we are still working hard with her.

That is it for this week. Nothing super duper exciting... sorry! Also, not many pictures just because it was a weird week. Sorry for that as well!

I love you all, thanks so much for the prayers and support.

Love,
Elder Bullough