We've had good days and bad days

"Monte Morro" We went as a zone for P-day

Love you more than…Arroz con leche (Rice with milk) It is kind of like oatmeal but it is sweat rice. An inactive member invited us over to teach us how to make it. It tastes good both hot and cold. I hope I can become really good at making it.

URGENT! Elder Coombs promised our investigators, that have baptismal dates, chocolate chip cookies but he doesn't know how to make it and I can't remember the measurements! Please send a recipe for easy cookies, even other cookie recipes would work.

Making juice

Cool stuff that happened this week! Elder Coombs and I have gotten a few appointments to learn how to cook from members, so we are excited for that. We have also been trying the different types of tang that the colmado/shack stores sell. Juice here is big! I tried a fruit called Jagua (Hog-wa) which I think is Emily's Indonesian stinky fruit, I couldn’t get the juice to taste good. 

Jagua and juice, which smelled weird and didn't taste good

The streets here don’t have signs, so street addresses are hard to find and house addresses like don’t exist. As far as I can find out, We live about four streets down from the main road. The bakery we like is on Calle Gaston just off of the mainstreet Calle Dulce de Jesus.

This week had a lot of great and difficult moments. We have gas and water and everything so don’t worry, it was only iffy for a few days. We are having great lessons with our three teenager baptismal candidates. I love Frammy because he is teaching me Spanish while I teach him English. He also likes the same music I do, imagine dragons, coldplay, taylor swift, its like a blessing. I also love the familia Rosa because even though we can’t get them to come back to church, they love to share with us and talk and laugh. The members are stepping up their game too. One girl just got back from her mission and came with us to teach us a few lessons and show us how it’s done. We had a lunch with a great old lady who makes my favorite guiaba juice. The branch is setting a goal to get a hundred steady strong families active by December which is definitely possible but will be work to get those less active/in-actives to come to church. The law of opposition is true. We had some great days, but then the next ones we couldn’t get anybody to share with. We went to everyone we knew one day and only had one lesson, besides contacting super hard. However enduring to the end is the way. Yesterday after all the failing lessons we finally had a lesson on the restoration with a man we’ve been trying to teach for a month. It was really spiritual, great, amazing and spiritual. Wow! Blessings come after our trials. 

 

Pan Dulce to celebrate 4 weeks in the field

Mom and Dad I've been praying for your guys' challenges; the bike race and the medical tests. Things will be great. You can do it! Si se puede! Yes you can! For the boys I saw a pick up truck drifting around corners the other day and thought about how I could picture you guys driving it.

 

Monte Morro

Part of my zone

For my spiritual thought it’s just about families. The basis for a good life is a family that loves each other and the key for a great life is a family that loves to live the gospel together. Keep working on reading scriptures together and praying together. 

Thanks for the love and support and the pictures and the funny quotes every week!

Love,

Elder Andrew W. Sheffield