Legendary P-Day and...... Moreno 3? - 29 julio 2019
Well it´s been an interesting one.
I think I´ll start out with our P-Day adventure. It all started out wednesday night when my comp and I ordered some empanadas because we were super hungry. We ate them and they were pretty good. Also, the 2 elders from Marcos Paz 1, who live like 5 blocks from us, came and stayed the night because we had plans to do stuff together for P-Day. Anyway, when we went to bed I noticed that my stomach was starting to hurt. I layed there for a long time and at one point I was actually able to fall asleep, but I only slept like an hour at most. I woke up and immediately got up and went into the bathroom because I knew what was coming. I threw up a couple times, and then went back to bed. Not even 5 minutes later, my comp gets up and goes into the bathroom and starts hurling. I was like, well, this is going to be a fun night. So basically we both ended up tag-teaming the bathroom the entire night. We went back and forth until like 11:00 am. I lost track of how many trips I took to the bathroom, all I know is that by my last trip I was so weak I couldn´t even stand up haha. It was a fun experience for all 4 of us. My comp and I felt like crap and were so weak that we couldn´t get out of bed for the rest of the day. It wasn´t until 6:30 pm that I finally got up from my bed, and that was mainly because my back was killing me because my mattress is terrible. So I´d say overall, it was a pretty fun day.
Oh yeah, so unfortunately Juan and Carolina still don´t have a wedding date. Last monday Juan didn´t go because he was sick. And then, when we visited them on friday, Carolina told us she had gone to the registro civil that morning, but when she got there she realized that there was a ¨paro¨, or a protest, so there was nobody working there. It would seem we don´t have the best of luck.
Alright, now for transfers. We actually never got the transfer call, because we still don´t have a phone, so the elders from Marcos Paz 1 had to come tell us what was happening for transfers. I will be returning to Moreno 3. Which if you don´t remember, that´s where I just came from. I will be with Elder Perez, he is from Colombia. It wasn´t really a huge suprise to me, because of what President told me in my interview last week. I guess I´m pretty excited to go back.
Well that´s about all I got.
Have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
Monday, July 29, 2019
Nate's Letter Home - July 22, 2019
22 julio 2019
Well this is probably going to be short.
This week was pretty good. If everything went well, Juan went to the registro civil this morning to get a date for their marriage. We couldn´t meet him there because we don´t have a phone and we didn´t know what time he would go. But anyway, hopefully they have a marraige date now.
On friday we had our interviews with President. From what was said, I will probably be leaving this area for my last transfer, but I´m just going to leave it at that until I see what actually happens. This saturday is when we get the call.
This week we found a pretty cool family that used to recieve the elders about 2 years ago. They seem pretty promising and this week we are probably going to be doing service for them with the elders quorum to help with the house they´re building in the back.
Yesterday, a lady from Peru that we´ve been teaching for a few weeks came to church. If everything goes well, she´ll be baptized this saturday, but we might have to wait till the next week. We´ll see.
Anyway, I think that´s about all I got. I hope you guys have a great week in Lake Powell.
Oh yeah, and happy birthday to Mom and Rachel!
-Elder Shelton
Well this is probably going to be short.
This week was pretty good. If everything went well, Juan went to the registro civil this morning to get a date for their marriage. We couldn´t meet him there because we don´t have a phone and we didn´t know what time he would go. But anyway, hopefully they have a marraige date now.
On friday we had our interviews with President. From what was said, I will probably be leaving this area for my last transfer, but I´m just going to leave it at that until I see what actually happens. This saturday is when we get the call.
This week we found a pretty cool family that used to recieve the elders about 2 years ago. They seem pretty promising and this week we are probably going to be doing service for them with the elders quorum to help with the house they´re building in the back.
Yesterday, a lady from Peru that we´ve been teaching for a few weeks came to church. If everything goes well, she´ll be baptized this saturday, but we might have to wait till the next week. We´ll see.
Anyway, I think that´s about all I got. I hope you guys have a great week in Lake Powell.
Oh yeah, and happy birthday to Mom and Rachel!
-Elder Shelton
Monday, July 15, 2019
Nate's Letter Home - July 15, 2019
rip blackberry - 15 julio 2019
Well it´s been another week.
On wednesday we had divisions with the zone leaders and on friday we were at zone conference all day, so we lost 2 days of work. Thursday night a storm came out of nowhere and it rained insanely hard. I was just out there in a short sleeve white shirt haha. Within about 1 minute I was completely soaked from head to toe. We ended up walking for like 45 minutes in the pouring rain until we got to Juan´s house. He is a recent convert, and we´re teaching his girlfriend. They have 4 kids and aren´t married yet. It´s a long story as to why he´s baptized. But anyway, we are trying to baptize his girlfriend Carolina, but obviously they need to get married first. We visited them 3 times this week and literally all we talked about is marriage and families every time. I feel like we´ve almost convinced her. Juan wants to get married, because he wants to be able to get the priesthood. We´ve just been trying to convince Carolina. She came for the first time to church yesterday, so that was good. I feel like at this point we just need to drag them to the registro civil and get them to sacar fecha. We´ll see what happens.
We had 3 investigators in church yesterday. One was Carolina, who needs to get married. Another one was this dude named Oracio, who also needs to get married, and the other was this lady named Liliana, who also needs to get married......... so yeah.
There´s also this dude named Lucas who has been inactive for quite a while, but about 3 weeks ago starting reactivating himself. He has 2 kids who are 9 and 11 years old and they want to be baptized. So we started teaching them. But saturday night one of them like fell down the stairs or something and had to go to the hospital, so they couldn´t come to church. So that was unfortunate.
Oh yeah, so we have a Blackberry phone and now it doesn´t work at all because it was in my pocket when I got soaked. So now we are truly primitive and don´t have any way to communicate with anybody. It´s been a struggle.
Well, I´m not really sure what else happened this week.
I hope you guys have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
Well it´s been another week.
On wednesday we had divisions with the zone leaders and on friday we were at zone conference all day, so we lost 2 days of work. Thursday night a storm came out of nowhere and it rained insanely hard. I was just out there in a short sleeve white shirt haha. Within about 1 minute I was completely soaked from head to toe. We ended up walking for like 45 minutes in the pouring rain until we got to Juan´s house. He is a recent convert, and we´re teaching his girlfriend. They have 4 kids and aren´t married yet. It´s a long story as to why he´s baptized. But anyway, we are trying to baptize his girlfriend Carolina, but obviously they need to get married first. We visited them 3 times this week and literally all we talked about is marriage and families every time. I feel like we´ve almost convinced her. Juan wants to get married, because he wants to be able to get the priesthood. We´ve just been trying to convince Carolina. She came for the first time to church yesterday, so that was good. I feel like at this point we just need to drag them to the registro civil and get them to sacar fecha. We´ll see what happens.
We had 3 investigators in church yesterday. One was Carolina, who needs to get married. Another one was this dude named Oracio, who also needs to get married, and the other was this lady named Liliana, who also needs to get married......... so yeah.
There´s also this dude named Lucas who has been inactive for quite a while, but about 3 weeks ago starting reactivating himself. He has 2 kids who are 9 and 11 years old and they want to be baptized. So we started teaching them. But saturday night one of them like fell down the stairs or something and had to go to the hospital, so they couldn´t come to church. So that was unfortunate.
Oh yeah, so we have a Blackberry phone and now it doesn´t work at all because it was in my pocket when I got soaked. So now we are truly primitive and don´t have any way to communicate with anybody. It´s been a struggle.
Well, I´m not really sure what else happened this week.
I hope you guys have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
"registro civil" = country clerk (basically)
"sacar fecha" = make an appointment
Monday, July 8, 2019
Nate's Letter Home - July 8, 2019
el frío - 8 julio 2019
Well it´s already monday again.
This week was actually pretty cold. My comp was basically dying the whole week. He is not used to the cold. I don´t know if I´ve even mentioned my new comp yet. He´s Elder Tovar and he´s from Lima, Peru. The cold doesn´t bother me that much, just my hands, which are basically frozen all the time. Literally everytime I shake hands with somebody they freak out like they had just touched dry ice or something. The people here don´t handle the cold to well. They usually just hunker down in their houses all day. It´s kinda hard to contact because nobody wants to come outside. We clap a ton of houses but not very many answer. We´re teaching this lady from Peru, who went to church a couple times there in Peru. She is progressing pretty well and if she comes to church this sunday she will be baptized the next saturday. We also have several people right now that are coming to church, and literally all they need to do to get baptized is to get married. Sometimes it seems like it´s impossible to get married here, but then I remember that there are people that are married, so it must be possible somehow.
I forgot to mention that last week a member gave me a pair of shoes that he didn`t use anymore, so my other 2 pairs have officially gone into retirement. Which is probably a good thing because they were being held together by a prayer and a few threads.
The ward here is kinda struggling. The average attendance is like 50 or 60. We´ve been talking a lot with the bishop and we are going to be visiting a lot of inactive families, and most of them are part-member families, which means that not all of their family is baptized, so we will probably find a lot of baptisms in the process.
Yeah I was gonna call on the 4th but things got kinda complicated. I don´t want to sound like the boy who cried wolf but I will most likely call this thursday.
Have a great week,
-Elder Shelton
Well it´s already monday again.
This week was actually pretty cold. My comp was basically dying the whole week. He is not used to the cold. I don´t know if I´ve even mentioned my new comp yet. He´s Elder Tovar and he´s from Lima, Peru. The cold doesn´t bother me that much, just my hands, which are basically frozen all the time. Literally everytime I shake hands with somebody they freak out like they had just touched dry ice or something. The people here don´t handle the cold to well. They usually just hunker down in their houses all day. It´s kinda hard to contact because nobody wants to come outside. We clap a ton of houses but not very many answer. We´re teaching this lady from Peru, who went to church a couple times there in Peru. She is progressing pretty well and if she comes to church this sunday she will be baptized the next saturday. We also have several people right now that are coming to church, and literally all they need to do to get baptized is to get married. Sometimes it seems like it´s impossible to get married here, but then I remember that there are people that are married, so it must be possible somehow.
I forgot to mention that last week a member gave me a pair of shoes that he didn`t use anymore, so my other 2 pairs have officially gone into retirement. Which is probably a good thing because they were being held together by a prayer and a few threads.
The ward here is kinda struggling. The average attendance is like 50 or 60. We´ve been talking a lot with the bishop and we are going to be visiting a lot of inactive families, and most of them are part-member families, which means that not all of their family is baptized, so we will probably find a lot of baptisms in the process.
Yeah I was gonna call on the 4th but things got kinda complicated. I don´t want to sound like the boy who cried wolf but I will most likely call this thursday.
Have a great week,
-Elder Shelton
Monday, July 1, 2019
Nate's Letter Home - July 1, 2019
1 julio 2019
Well somehow it´s already July. Time goes by really fast.
This week was pretty good. We worked pretty hard but only found a little bit of success. It´s pretty dang cold and rainy. The peoples´ hearts seem to be pretty cold too haha. Also our area is all dirt roads so we walk through some serious mud all day. The highlight of the week was probably that Mario came to church. We visited him several times during the week and we kept inviting him to come to church and he would always say ¨I´m not going to promise you guys anything¨ which here basically means a flat out no. But on saturday we visited him again and he opened up and started telling us that he was having a really hard time because of his son, who had gotten into drugs and had started to rob. We shared the story of Alma the younger with him and we told him that through his good example, faith, and prayers, he could help his son change. He was like, ok, I´ll come to church tomorrow. And he came. He said he really liked it. He was really impressed by the 5th sunday class, because he said he felt a love between the members that he had never felt in the other churches he went to. So anyway, he is now progressing pretty well.
We are teaching quite a few other people but we´ll have to see if they progress. I feel like I had more to say but I´ve forgotten everything. I´ll try to call on thursday, since it´s been a while now since I´ve called.
Have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
p.s. Here´s a pic of some service we did with some members building a house. As you can tell, my shoes are in great condition.
Well somehow it´s already July. Time goes by really fast.
This week was pretty good. We worked pretty hard but only found a little bit of success. It´s pretty dang cold and rainy. The peoples´ hearts seem to be pretty cold too haha. Also our area is all dirt roads so we walk through some serious mud all day. The highlight of the week was probably that Mario came to church. We visited him several times during the week and we kept inviting him to come to church and he would always say ¨I´m not going to promise you guys anything¨ which here basically means a flat out no. But on saturday we visited him again and he opened up and started telling us that he was having a really hard time because of his son, who had gotten into drugs and had started to rob. We shared the story of Alma the younger with him and we told him that through his good example, faith, and prayers, he could help his son change. He was like, ok, I´ll come to church tomorrow. And he came. He said he really liked it. He was really impressed by the 5th sunday class, because he said he felt a love between the members that he had never felt in the other churches he went to. So anyway, he is now progressing pretty well.
We are teaching quite a few other people but we´ll have to see if they progress. I feel like I had more to say but I´ve forgotten everything. I´ll try to call on thursday, since it´s been a while now since I´ve called.
Have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
p.s. Here´s a pic of some service we did with some members building a house. As you can tell, my shoes are in great condition.
Nate's Letter Home - June 24, 2019
goodbye moreno... - 24 junio 2019
There has been an unexpected turn of events.
Wednesday night at about 10:30 the APs called and told me that I was getting transfered over to Marcos Paz 2. It was unexpected and I was pretty upset. I was also kinda mad. But anyway, I packed up everything that night, and then in the morning we went and visited Micaela and Carlos real quick so I could say goodbye. That was pretty hard. Then at about 11:00 the guy the mission offices had sent to come pick me up got to our apartment. So I loaded up my stuff into the car and he took me over to Marcos Paz, and well, now I`m here. My comp is Elder Tovar, from Perú. He´s from my goup so we have the same amount of time in the mission.
Elder Peña, my last comp, called me saturday night and told me that María, the grandma of Micaela, and the mom of Carlos, got baptized. I was glad to hear that but also pretty disappointed I didn`t get to see it.
Anyway, I`ve been missing Moreno 3 the past few days, but I`m getting over it, I think. I`m sure some good things are waiting for me here in Marcos Paz.
I`ll try to call on thursday.
-Elder Shelton
There has been an unexpected turn of events.
Wednesday night at about 10:30 the APs called and told me that I was getting transfered over to Marcos Paz 2. It was unexpected and I was pretty upset. I was also kinda mad. But anyway, I packed up everything that night, and then in the morning we went and visited Micaela and Carlos real quick so I could say goodbye. That was pretty hard. Then at about 11:00 the guy the mission offices had sent to come pick me up got to our apartment. So I loaded up my stuff into the car and he took me over to Marcos Paz, and well, now I`m here. My comp is Elder Tovar, from Perú. He´s from my goup so we have the same amount of time in the mission.
Elder Peña, my last comp, called me saturday night and told me that María, the grandma of Micaela, and the mom of Carlos, got baptized. I was glad to hear that but also pretty disappointed I didn`t get to see it.
Anyway, I`ve been missing Moreno 3 the past few days, but I`m getting over it, I think. I`m sure some good things are waiting for me here in Marcos Paz.
I`ll try to call on thursday.
-Elder Shelton
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