Well, I've been in Sedalana for one transfer and it has kind of flown by. I have learned a lot by learning how to lead the sector and tell my future companions about the people and about the sector. But I also have a ton to learn in Spanish and how to just be a better teacher.
This week a lot of funny stuff happened. To give some context we are teaching a young woman and she is progressing and going to church a lot. She practically is a member at this point and all she needs to do is be baptized and she will be a member. Well she is from a different area and is staying with her aunt to be able to teach her. We were just going to do a video chat lesson and got an audio message from her aunt yelling at us that we should be doing lessons in person. So we went to the house and started teaching and her little 4 year old daughter came into the room, had some water and threw up all over the floor and was super close to my companion. That was kind of funny to have something happen in the middle of a lesson but also hard to get on topic.
We also knocked on a door and out came a young woman and we asked her if her parents are home and then she just stared at us for what felt like 20 seconds and said that her parents are all atheist and that they don't want to hear our message. We just walked away laughing.
I also gave a talk in church just yesterday and the topic was given to us 3 days before so we had some time to think up something to say. We talked about how we can share the gospel like the Savior. I shared something about how we can share the gospel through our examples and through the joy and happiness we find through living the gospel, We also put 2 fechas down for baptisms this week. We have them planned for back to back weekends in April so we will see if they actually happen or just fall. It seems we've had a lot of fechas fall just because the people just don't go to church and we can't have lessons with them. It's been frustrating but we are finding a lot of people to teach and we've found a few who seem interested so that is exciting.
That's pretty much been it this past week. Nothing else really crazy or exciting this week happened. I'm not sure if the ward or area will do something for Easter but we will see how next weekend goes since people just party every weekend. Yesterday Ecuador played against Italy and they lost and everyone was outside drinking and blasting classic Latino music so the weekends are sometimes rough to get through.
That's pretty much all for this week.
Miss all you guys,
Elder Roper
