Hey Family!
So I am here walking to internet right now, I just wanted to
make this a little bit earlier so that I can focus on talking with you more.
This week was fun, more of the same kind of thing. Let see, what happened this
week…
Something funny that happened was this morning, I don’t know
how you say it in English, but for the voice mailbox system, but in Spanish,
when you call somebody and they don’t pick up, it says voz de mensaje, …?.... parte de este momento. And so when the
sister missionaries called me this morning, that’s the voice mailbox message.
So when the sister missionaries called me it was super funny because they
called me and I just said that: voz de
mensaje….?... parte de este momento. And they hung up. Haha. They bought
it. Then they called again and I did it again. And they fell for it the second
time. And we are just rolling. I tried to do it again a third time, but they
were laughing so hard in the background that they didn’t buy it this time. So
that was funny. Messing with the Sister Missionaries.
Well, we are here with my boy, Elder Coop. He just made us
Rice Krispy treats, and that’s pretty poderoso
he is with us because his companion, Elder Crestle, like we say in the mission
he “died”. Or he went to his house. He left yesterday for Bogotá, so he is with
us for the next week until transfers. So we will be partying it up. SACHI PAPA! Sachi Papa is fast food here
in Colombia. It is basically like hot dogs, like sausage and fries, cheese, and
sauces. It’s really good, but it’s a heart attack. Yep. So that’s sachi Papa.
That’s what we ate for Thanksgiving, and it’s really hard on your stomach
sometimes just because it’s so greasy.
Alright, so the rest of the week we were working hard. We
had kind of a free week this week so we got some work done. Trying to think of
anything that we had… no I think this week was pretty much all free. Well, this
week, familia Cano that we have been teaching is going to be baptized in a
couple of weeks. It’s pretty much all set in stone. They’ve gotten their answer
and we gave them the Law of Tithing last night and they accepted it flying
colors. It always just brings my mind back to the example of my Dad that when I
saw the shop was going through a really hard time, my Dad always told me “well
Son, I don’t know how we’re gonna do it, but I know I paid my tithing and I
know the Lord is gonna take care of us.” And I get emotional every time that I
tell that to people. That example just because I know my Dad is such a great
example for me. Thank you for that, Dad. I love you.
This week we actually had multi-zone conference which was
really good. We talked a lot about finding people to teach. We set a new goal
of having 25 contacts every day or so, for example we are going to talk to 25
people in the streets every day in-between appointments and everything. It’s
really been going well for us. We have met some great people just by being able
to open up our mouths and talk to them. Illumina
el mundo, or Light the World has really been helping us out with that. We
are giving out cards of that and again, if you guys haven’t checked it out, you
should because it’s really good. Me and my companion gave a short training
about that in Multi-Zone conference about how to use it. It’s always good to
meet with President and receive instructions from him. I have really gained a
deep respect for him, for the man that he is. Sister Laney was sick this week,
and so on Friday we had multi-zone and on Saturday we went to Duitama again for
interviews with President. We had our interviews, which were good as always,
and then we also had Stake Conference this week. Which our Stake Presidency was
being released and they were putting in a new one and there were two Seventies
there. President Laney, he talked to the Seventies, the General Authorities,
and they were actually there while we were doing our interviews. I got to meet
one of them. But President asked permission to go to the mission home and care
for Sister Laney. I thought that was just so cool. He has given such a good
example to us of how to be a good missionary, but also after a good husband. He
actually gives us advice about that all the time haha. So it’s been really good
to watch the things that he does. You talk with the man and you look in his
eyes and you know he is a disciple of Jesus Christ. It’s just fantastic.
This week for P-day we went to the Museum of the Sun again,
and it was really fun because I looked a little bit more into the legend of
Polchico, which is the legend of a white man who came to the Chibcha’s and he
taught them how to live productive lives, live better lives than they were
living, and he cast out, well the legend is that he cast out a woman that was
teaching false doctrines. We know that that refers to the destruction of all
the evil that was there in the land. It was cool because it also said, it also
referred to various other countries or civilizations that also had the same
legend. Among them was in Mexico, was Quetzalcoatl, which Grandpa told me about
that before my mission. And Viracocha in Peru. All the same legend. All in the
different countries, here in Colombia with the Chibcha’s, in Mexico and Central
America with the Mayans and Aztecs. in Peru with the Incas. It was really
cool. Elder Coop was joking around and he put a copy of the Book of Mormon open
to 3 Nephi 11 up on the stand and said “this gives the complete story…” it was
funny. So that’s what happened this week.
I am enjoying it here in Colombia. I am enjoying it here in
Sogamoso. We have transfers coming up and there is a possibility that I am
gonna leave but I don’t think so. I don’t want to, I want to stay here for a
little longer. The members are so good here. I really love it here and it will
be hard to leave. The weather here has been crazy lately. So what it’ll do,
like right now, it’s HOT. Like this sun, it’s not hot and humid like it is in
Bucaramanga or Yopal, but the sun BITES. Elder Coop gets burned every day.
ELDER COOP: Ya. It hurts.
Ya. That happened. Well, that’s the weather here. Yesterday
we got soaked to the skin after it was so sunny and then in the afternoon from
one hour to another it just downpoured and we got to the house and we were cold
and wet. It was crazy. But I am still enjoying it here. I think that’s all I
have got for you guys this week. I had an experience that strengthened my
testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ:
We went to teach a family that has a son that has a
disability with speech. He looks like he has got a disability with mobility as
well, but really it’s just speech. He thinks clearly and everything and he is
going to be baptized here in a week. Him and his brother. But his older
brother, who is a member of about 8 months, informed us that he had gone out
and drunken a beer. Now they are orphans. It’s a house with 4 boys, there’s
Jesus, he’s the oldest, there’s Jason, there’s Brian, y Juan Pablo in that
order. Jason had gone out and taken a drink of beer and I guess he showed up
just a little bit tipsy. And really Jesus gave him a good chastising right
there in the moment. Jason felt SO BAD. I told him “Jason, that makes us sad
that you went and did that.” He just was so sad and so heartbroken about what he
had done. And he was like “I don’t want to listen, hermanos. I am just all sin.
I am all mistakes.” He was just feeling sad about himself. But we taught about
lesson 3 which is about the gospel of Jesus Christ and about repentance and
baptism. It was such a good opportunity to testify with all of my heart that
Jesus Christ can erase all of our errors and make us better people if we let
him. I just know it’s true. I just saw the light come into his eyes as we
taught and bore testimony about it. We just saw the light come back into his
eyes and he was Jason again because he just had this hope. It was something
small, but he felt it so deeply. I wish we were all that way.
Well family, have a good week. Bye-Bye.
-Elder Lewis
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