Hola
mis amigos y familia!
Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year! For New Year's normally people make
resolutions and goals to be a better person and they generally are
always broken within the first month. I hope you all are making goals
and plans to be able to keep them for longer than normal. I would
also like to challenge you all to pick a Christ like attribute that
you are going to work on this year to become more like Him. If you
need Ideas you can read 2 Peter 5:7-8 for the promised blessing!
Monday,
we played soccer in the morning, went shopping and then had to go to
the hospital because my companion got another ingrown toenail.
Tuesday,
we had to go out and work like normal and everyone was basically on
vacation so it was hard to find new people. While we were knocking
doors we passed by a member's house and they invited us for food the
next day which was a blessing! Later that night we were also able to
go to a member's house with the other elders in our ward. We played
games until 9 and the food still wasn't ready, so a member called the
mission president to ask if we could stay longer because the food
still wasn't ready. He said yes and we ended up staying there past
10!
Wednesday
we couldn't leave the house so normally a missionary would sleep in,
but we have a tradition in my family, thanks to me, that we wake up
early to open Christmas presents. So I woke up my companion at 6:30
and we opened presents. Later we played soccer with the district at
the church and then stayed in the house for the rest of the day until
dinner with the family that invited us on Tuesday.
Thursday
was back to normal for us except everyone is still gone on vacation.
We had district meeting and then lunch and later went to an older
guy's home. He lives alone and had fallen the other day and it was
super bad so he asked us to give him a blessing. That night we
visited Camila and her mom and they made us the traditional Christmas
dish from Venezuela.
Friday,
we asked an hermano to come to some lessons with us. Some fell
through, some not, and we had some backup lessons too, but in the end
he ended up being with us for 3 hours! He is the best!
Saturday,
we did a lot of knocking doors and were able to talk to a few cool
people which is always a plus. As we were knocking a street this
random guy came up to me and my companion and I didn't understand a
thing he said, but basically he was offering 50 cents to me. I was
very hesitant to take it, but finally I let him give it to me. He
told me that I have good luck and then walked off, jaja.
Sunday,
while we were welcoming people to church a drunk guy walked in with a
flower and shoe in his hand saying that someone gave them to him and
if he walked in and talked with us we could help him. Long story
short he was really drunk and walked away mad that we had offered to
visit him. Later that day we ran into another guy who was drunk who,
after teaching him, cried into me and got blood on my shirt. It was
really gross. My companion also got very sick and was miserable all
day so that wasn't cool either, but I am looking forward to a new
year! Here they have a tradition to burn things that represent the
old year. Usually they are dolls of old men but they get really
creative with them here! I will attach some photos. I hope you all
have a great week!
Les
quiero mucho,
Elder
Tolman
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