Hola familia y amigos!
Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend and that you all enjoyed a nice giant turkey! This week was pretty good. Everything seems like a blur, but this week we had divisions and I went to San Juan for a 4th time while the DL was in my area, and it was cool. There is a family over there that cooks dinner for the elders and they fell in love with me since the first time I was there so they were really happy that I was there.
This week we have been trying to find new people and keep those that we have, and the unfortunate thing is that so many people say they will go to church, but they never do and its getting a bit frustrating dealing with it. Gina´s husband was going to go to church but his car broke down in Ceiba and she had to go pick him up, but we did manage to have quite a few people go, including Familia Salinas. They are amazing, but there is a problem with getting them married. They want to but she has to get divorced first, which could take a while, but they are awesome, and this Sunday they came with us to an activity at the stake center. There is a music school here in SPS that is the best one around and they are pretty good. They had 6 violins, 3 violas, 3cellos 2 basses and 2 flutes along with solos and a choir, and it was all about the life of Joseph Smith. I thought it was surprisingly well done and I really enjoyed it. They did a really good job and Familia Salinas really enjoyed it. They have a great testimony of the church and a lot of the members have noticed and are willing to help them with anything.
Right now the mission isn’t doing very well. I think we finished the month with 90 something baptisms (terrible!) and a lot of people think it is because 25 elders are going home and they are baggie, or trunkie. In our ward we have been doing a rescue program by having Family Home Evenings on Sunday and Tuesday nights at the home of an inactive-less active family. We have had some good success with it, but last night was incredible! The FHE was in a pretty dangerous area to be walking around in at night, so we met up at the church and we went out there as a group. It was in a poor part of the area and the family isn’t in great financial circumstances. We showed up and a great message was shared, and then Elder Ward and I sang Nearer My God to Thee to finish and it really brought the Spirit. At the end of the entire thing we found out that there were 71 of us (including kids) that went to their house! It was a great way to have the ward come together and support each other.
Well my Thanksgiving was normal, working and stuff, haha. Oh about those cats that are around our house, the other day there was one by the house and Elder Ward hit it with a broom and the cat tried to jump the wall in front of our house but instead jumped right into it. It was pretty funny and we think they won’t come back anytime soon, haha! Well that was my week in a nutshell. The days continue to go by fast and mesh together so hopefully I can keep up with it all haha! Hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Neher
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