Well it´s been a bit of an interesting week. Last monday, my comp´s bike broke and we had to drop it off at the bike shop so we had to work the rest of the day on foot, which is not an easy thing to do in Alvarez because our area is pretty big. And all of our investigators live very far from our pensh. Tuesday morning, my comp´s bike was still getting fixed, so we had to go on foot again. We got his bike back in the afternoon, but then about 10 minutes after, my bike broke. So, we went on foot yet again. Long story short, on wednesday, the mission offices sent a member from Ramos Mejía who is good at fixing bikes to our pensh. He came and took all our bikes away so he could fix them. Well, we still don´t have our bikes back, so we´re still walking everywhere. It´s been hard to visit our investigators since they live so far. Like remember the couple that wants to get married? Well we found out that walking from our pensh to their house at a fairly fast pace takes 55 minutes. And we have investigators that live even farther. But, at least one thing good about walking is that it´s easier to contact people. So we got a lot of good contacts this week. Hopefully we get our bikes back though.
As for the couple getting married, we haven´t been able to make much progress. We were only able to visit them twice this week. But we did talk to them about getting married here in Alvarez and they were all for it. The trick now is helping them get into Alvarez and actually doing it. We´re going to have to mostly rely on the members to help them out though, since they actually know the process. Plus it´s kinda hard for us to do anything without our bikes.
Most likely, I only have 3 more weeks here in Alvarez so I´m trying to make the most of it. I´ve been here so long it´s starting to feel like home. We´re going to be having some baptisms before I leave.
Oh, I almost forgot. So saturday night we visited a less active family. The dad served a mission and is a high priest, but they haven´t been to church in almost 2 years. I think it is due to some arguement or problem they had with some of the members back then. But anyway, we sat down with them and I felt like I should share a story from the book of mormon that I had been thinking about a lot recently. So I opened up to Alma 24 and read the story of the people of anti-nephi-lehi burrying their swords. We talked about it with them and I told them that whatever ¨swords¨ that we have that get in the way of us following the Lord, we should burry them. So I invited them to burry their swords and come to church on sunday. It was a nice surprise sunday morning when we saw them coming through the doors of the church. It was their first time coming in about 2 years.
Alma 24:15
-Elder Shelton
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