I hope your weeks have been great.
Mine has been! In spite of certain physical setbacks......
Last Monday, in playing soccer, I fell like four times directly onto my left knee and was left deprived of pretty much all the skin that was previously covering that part of my body. That soccer field was left with some deep gashes as well, but it's been an incredibly enjoyable experience to pour alcohol on that. You guys will see the videos of me shouting when I come home. It's not pretty.
Well! This week was a good one. We were able to find some pretty great new people, but I'll send you more updates about them when we can get some more lessons with them. Unfortunately, the finding process can be pretty bumpy, so I don't want to get you guys all attached to some people that I've only seen once or twice, but I have high hopes! We have like four complete families that have some awesome potentials! I'm excited.
In terms of long-time investigators, Paola López, the neice of Diana, came to church and her baptism is pretty set for the 31st. It's going to be great and a huge tool to help other investigators be baptized, and that really makes me happy. Some people were already asking if they could see a baptism.
Your little missionary is finally growing up! This week we were managing ourselves much more capably and we did some good work. It was joyous. There are a number of other cool things about this week:
Service Project!!! A super awesome member named César Fernández asked us to come by and prune a big tree. He had no ladder, so the task was left to their Big Friendly Giant {yours truly} almost entirely. I pruned that thing to death! No, not really, but it feels pretty violent when you're hacking at branches wildly with a machete. Some of them were pretty big and it took a ton of effort, but it was awesome. And afterwards, he treated me to a breakfast of an egg white that he whipped, and then added the yolk with some sugar and cinnamon and continued whipping for forever. It was an egg from his own chickens too. I thought I was going to get salmonella for sure, but everyone assured me that it's fine.
It was! It actually tasted really good. So remember! If you have your own eggs (none of that store-bought stuff, cuz that's what has the salmonella as I was repeatedly assured) you can just whip that business right up and drink it and it tastes really good.
Okay, we also had Ward Conference this week, in which we had a choir! Yay! I love choirs. That choir, however, robbed us of LOTS of missionary time, so I'm kinda relieved that we won't be going to practices anymore. Ward Conference was wonderful and our Stake President is a man I admire a whole bunch. He's only like 32 or something like that too, which is young, but he has a huge love of missionary work and talks about his mission in Chile all the time. It was a great conference.
My companion replaced his feet! We were able to get him his special orthopedic foot products and he can walk like never before. I think that it's helped him have a lot more desire to work and stay out there And we're done going into the South Mission! No more trips to the forbidden land of danger!
Other than that.... I have a haircut today.
This week will be really good as far as the work goes and I have some crazy stories to tell you all next week. Expect to hear more about investigators, inactive members, and recent converts!
I love you all. Have a wonderful week!
Elder Harris
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