Elders Merrill and I had intercambios this week. (An
intercambio is when you switch companions and areas to learn from someone
different.) It went great; he is a cool guy and has read Brandon Sanderson and
is a fan which makes him even cooler.
Elder Merrill also gave me this map of all the areas in the mission. I
thought you might want to see it. But, Elder Merrill was transferred and will
be leaving our district.
So further information on our investigators: one great thing
that happened this week we were able to commit both Vivian and Carlos to a
Fecha for a baptism. I'm still a little worried about Carlos; though, because
we still have trouble meeting with him, and he is constantly failing us for our
appointments. He seemed sincere when we asked him, but I'm getting the feeling
that he isn't taking it serious enough. It's like we are more of an
afterthought. We are going to keep working with him though and try to get him
to commit a little more. I'll keep you updated. Vivian, however, is doing
awesome. She has a lot of desires to learn and understand, and she is praying
to receive an answer which is great, and she really wants to know. I'm really
excited for her. She even gave us a couple of references to check out, too,
which was cool. Normally when we ask if people know someone else who would be
interested, they just say I don't know.
That also reminded me, another cool thing happened. We had
our first investigator in church; her name is Carmen. That’s really great news. Unfortunately,
although we have been trying we cannot get into contact with him, we have
called Juan Carlos, and we keep passing by his house, but he isn't there. If we
ever find him we will try and teach him again, hopefully. We will see. At this
point though, we think it's time to take a break and focus more on our investigators
right now. But yea, that's the update on the people for this week.
So onto transfer info. So, Elder Chabot, the zone leader in
the Piso with us, is gone. Elder Jepson is coming in now, haven't met him yet.
Also leaving is Elder Merrill from the district. He is getting replaced by Elder
Ferguson. Kinda crazy that we are going to be in the same district. For those
who don't know or realize, Elder Ferguson is from my hometown and was even in
the same seminary class as my older sister, Amanda. So yeah, I'm going to see
him again; that will be cool. And also leaving is Hermana Quispe. We do not
know who she will be replaced by yet, because with this coming transfer Hermana
Vannucci will be training a new sister. So yeah, I'm not gonna be the youngest
anymore! Ha, but that's what happened with this transfer.
One other thing, Elder Simmons was called to be district
leader, which is cool. I'm positive he is going to do great. He is a very
hardworking and obedient missionary, but he is pretty stressed about being a
dl. He wants to do well, but he feels a little worried or anxious, because he
has only had 8 months in the mission. But I think he is just psyching himself
out.
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| Kebob |
I was asked to describe the kind of food we eat at citas with
the members, so here it goes. So most of the members that we eat with are from
somewhere in South America, Africa or who knows where else. We get a pretty big
variety of food that we eat, but there are some commonalities. For one, there
is almost always rice, which I am coming to enjoy very much. Often, we are
served chicken, too, which is never deboned, and you have to be careful while
eating, because the whole chicken is cooked, and there are all kinds of tiny
bones to watch out for. We have had lunches with a couple Spaniard families with
some typical Spanish food like paella, which is good. Sometimes we have bocadillos
sandwiches, which is just bread, cheese and Jamon cerrano which is awesome;
very typical Spanish food. But yea, that's just a little summary of what we eat
with the members. On our own we usually just make nachos, fajitas, or a
quesadilla, and a whole lot of cereal, and I mean a lot. But yea that's a
deeper look into the food life.
So that's pretty much it. Some kind of festival is going on
here. It’s a medieval theme, but really just a big farmer’s market. It’s cool. Not sure what for; I think it's
the anniversary of the foundation of Móstoles. Because of it, everything is closed,
and I mean everything. So no grocery shopping this pday. Maybe if we get President’s
permission we can grab some stuff tomorrow or when we have time. It also means shops including correos (which
is the Spanish shipping service) are closed. So, Mom, I was going to send you
something for mother’s day, but it's closed and I can't, so it's not going to
get there until after mother’s day so my bad. As I'm writing this, I realize I
could just tell you when we Skype......oh well now you know. love ya mom. Also,
Happy Birthday to all my family members that are having birthdays. Sorry I didn’t
send a personal email; I didn’t bring a list of birthdays.
That's all I can think of to write. Sorry if I am kind of
jumping from place to place in my letters, but I just write stuff down as I
remember it.
Love you all! Till next week
-Elder Bassett
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