So this week was a good week!! We are just killing it out here. My companion and I are not the missionaries that everyone expects. The whole mission just focuses in contacting. If you had 30 contacts and nothing else everyone would worship your feet. But if you do like 10 lessons and visit 10 members and contact 1 time in the street, everyone would think we are plancheros. So I'm pretty sure everyone thinks we are plancheros. The only thing is that I don't care. Turns out that our baptism was the first one since August. and we have 2 more for this Saturday. What the mission needs to focus on is progressing investigators. I could contact my whole mission and I could end up being the AP but I would rather have success in my mission and actually have converts so that's what we are doing. And little by little the rest of the zone is following our lead. At first our DL would get mad at us. This week even he got mad for teaching 12 lessons in one day and only contacting 8 times.... and now no one cares. Our ZL called us and asked how we are having so much success and we just said we are focusing on our investigators and not trying to contact and contact. They were really surprised and didn't really congratulate us or anything but I know that what we are doing is that right thing and I'm way excited for all of the success that we are going to have here in the weeks to come.
So another wild thing is that on Wednesday morning at 1:30 in the morning, I woke up in a pure panic and with crazy pain in my thumb. I ran to turn on the lights and started screaming in English and my comp was like que que que!!!! So I explained what happened and he was like something bit you elder!! So we started looking through my sheets and pillows and I had my bed sheet in my hand and IT STUNG ME AGAIN ON MY POINTER FINGER!!!! I'm basically screaming because it hurt so bad and we are looking and probing with pens and pencils and a selfie stick to find what it was and I had a scorpion sting me 2x!!!!!!! I would have photos but I don't really have a camera haha so we are like what the freak do we do!!! We start poking it and we just make it mad!! We finally got it off the sheet and I caught it with a glass cup and the way that I caught it was that the whole body was in the cup but the tail was out of it. So we cut off the tail and the scorpion got ANGRY! Like it was flipping in the jar and stinging the cup while we were chopping off the tail. Then when we had the whole tail off, he lifted the cup and I stomped that mug so hard!!!! Then when the adrenaline of stomping a scorpion went away, I realized that my hand was killing me and that my lips and tongue were completely numb!! I panicked again and my companion gave me a blessing and right when he said amen all of the pain went away. I was calm, and I had feeling again in my mouth. It was incredible. In the moment, it was the worse day of my life but now I have a sick story about a scorpion and the power of the priesthood!!! Then we had to go back and I was so paranoid that I couldn't sleep almost all night.
A funny story that I had this week was that I was with our recent convert and his sister and we had just got done sharing a message and we were just kind of talking. So she was eating a food called tajaditas. Which is basically nachos but with fried platinos. super delicios. So I wanted some so I said hey prestame sus tajaditas. which means like hey lend me your tajaditas. Then the whole room exploded in laughter. like they couldn't even breath how hard they were laughing. So I was like well maybe I said it wrong so I was like ohh sorry sorry sorry I meant to say lend me your tajaditas. And thy just went bananas again!! So I was like what the heck! What did I say wrong so I asked and it turns out that tajaditas is like slang for butt cheeks. And if I say it like that it means like I want your butt cheeks. So then I started to get super red because I'm a missionary that just asked a 13 year old girl for her butt cheeks...... its a funny story but I was like in a panic of oh no.... what if she thought I was serious. I dont want your tajaditas!!!
So just in all I love being a missionary. I have learned that the reason the pastors never want to talk to us is because they are afraid. The Church is so true and this really is the priesthood of God that we have. It is powerful and only those who are worthy can use it. I love this Priesthood and will always strive to be a worthy Poseador(I don't know how to say that in English. like holder? beholder?? you guys know). Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. I don't just believe these things but I truly know them them to be true.
I love you all so much!
Elder Garry
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