llamados a servir: December 26th, 2011

"Bean mustache and Christmas gift from Tess"

So, I just talked to you guys yesterday, I know, but here are a bunch of photos I couldn't show you on Skype.
Things have been spectacular. The weather was nasty for a while and rained a lot everyday, but then all of a sudden some high pressure came in which made for amazing sunrises. We've been getting up and doing excercises in the morning sun and taking lots of pictures. However, the investigators aren't doin so hot, so our numbers of lessons taught were awfully low this week. We have a new game plan of teaching the members about the atonement of Jesus Christ and committing them to pray to receive revelation about a family they know that is ready for the gospel, then to invite the family over for some activity with their family - doesn't have to involve anything church related - and then in 8 days we'll come back and they are to have invited that family over again for a family home evening. We have a little paper to help them keep track of their goals with that. We have 3 appointments with members today, one at 6, one at 7, and one at 8. We're going to get this ward up to speed! Also, we want to make sure they are doing their weekly family home evenings and family scripture and prayer, along with personal prayer and scripture reading.

I am sending some goofy pictures of me with this mustache made from this strange dip some members gave us. There is something called panela, which is basically the equivalent of white bread to whole bread, as white sugar is to this. I don't know if that made sense, but it is like whole sugar, soooo good. This dip is made from that mixed with beans....so it has a bean dip texture, but it's really sugary. Anyway, I wanted to take a picture of me with a hot chocolate mustache, but it wasn't dark enough, so I put that on my lip and took some photos. Good times. Also, here are some photos of my christmas packages stash. Thanks so much for the dried mangoes....so killer. There are mangoes here, but they always eat them green (super sour) with salt and it hurts my tongue!

Love Elder Blackwelder