Malpaisillo Week 7

Well after I wrote last week, we went to go meet some of the members here so my comp (Elder Ramos) could meet them on his first day in the area. Well, It turns out that it was pretty hard to find anyone in their house. It was the celebration of the Virgin Mary here, and so everyone was out in the streets. For this celebration, people go to houses that have an alter to the Virgin Mary and sing a song and people give them candy and food and what not. It's kind of like Halloween, but for Catholics. We went to an investigator's house and they gave us dinner out of the blue. So we didn't have to buy dinner that night. We ate ground beef sandwiches with orange juice. That is a first for me.

On Thursday we went to Leon for district meeting. In the zone we got 3 new missionaries. 2 hermanas from Honduras and 1 from Utah, but he lived in Spain for like 10 years so he speaks Spanish already. Only my companion left in the district so it was pretty much the same. Then afterwards we went to the Center and we went to the store to buy some food for the week. It was a pretty good day.

On Friday, Elder Ramos got sick and couldnt work. So we pretty much just chilled all day while he slept. Pretty boring day. But he is better now.

On Saturday night we had the strongest storm I have ever seen. It was a pretty toasty day to start out, but around 7pm, it started to rain. And luckly we got inside to our dinner appointment, cuz about 10 mins later it started a huge thunderstorm and the power went out and  the lightning made it impossible to have a conversation, and the rain was pounding on the metal roof and we had to wait out the storm. When it had passed, my comp and I went back to the house and we got wet up to our shins in water. It was pretty fun actually.

On Sunday we passed for a bunch of investigators of which pretty much all said they would show up to church. We were hoping for a good turn out, but only 1 of the 20 or so that said they would come showed up. But that 1 that did show up finally showed up after 5 months of inviting her to church. Her dad is a member and was really happy to see her there. We ended up having 17 at church. Which is the best turn out I've had in this area.

And today for pday we went to Leon and played soccer and ate Mcdonalds. While leaving this dude is like, "Do you want to see the eclipse?", and we said sure. So he gives us this Lense and we could look up at the sun and see that the moon was indeed covering the sun. And no it did not get darker here or anything like that. If anything, It got hotter during the eclipse.

Till Next week,
-Elder Taylor

"Welcome to Malpaisillo​"

Chillin At Mcdonalds Today​

Us in a wheat field before an incoming storm​

Me and Elder Ramos during the Blackout (with Flash)​

Where we meet for Church​