Hey Everyone,
Long time no talk, um this week was actually awesome! Presidente gave us a huge boche for our numbers being low, and said either we are not working or the members aren’t. Then President Wally also gave a huge boche. In addition, pres said if the 6 of us didn’t have at least 45 lessons together, he’d take 4 or all 6 of us out that week. So this week the members have been working super super hard! This week has defiantly been our best week. We had as many references this week in one day as many as we had in all of the last transfer! We are afraid that pres will think were lying about our numbers because of how high they are compared to last week, but its just because of the members working with us now.
I think I'm going to be good at public speaking by the time I get back from my mission, we constantly teach huge groups of people. We hit a record with how many people we have taught at once. We were down in la barra and teaching a reference of President Wally’s, so he was there and he said to bring the members we were working with because it was a joven (young man) we were working with so she came a along, (chiquita) and then the women whose house they use for church for some reason decided to come along too. So I guess three of them don’t count. However, after every lesson we taught. the people followed us to the next one... it was Super awkward! hah but anyway at the last lesson we sit down with this kid and his family and then the 6 kids that were following us sat on the side of the wall. (were teaching it outside) so were up to 15 people there, and occasionally people walking by would just stop and see what was going on some would stay others would leave, eventually though we had 28 people just hanging out just listening in on what were teaching! Hah 28... it was a ton of people but luckily it was the first lesson and we teach that one all the time so I actually knew all the words I needed for that one and didn’t look like a fool. I felt bad for the kid because when we asked him questions everyone would just look at him to see if he knew... it was probably super hard for him to feel the spirit or anything. Because of how many people were there, chatting in the back at times and you could tell he was nervous because he’d keep looking at all the people but his mom just mopped the house so we couldn’t go in and leave everyone else. But he must have liked the message a little bit because we got a return cita.
Yea that kid lives in la barra, and well there’s three areas to Ocoa la barra, parra and the pueblo. One companionship assigned to each one, we live in the pueblo and parra and barra are both about a 40 min walk from it on either side. We’re assigned to parra but for some reason Wally gave us the references for the barra so we went there for church and wow that building is small! And had a TON of ninos and there is a primary but with sacrament. There had to be 60 kids in there. Maybe 6 adults but yea so now I am now working all three of the areas. We I've decided to just call Ocoa in general our town and the other missionaries are just visiting.
Things here are still messed up, you know how in the olden times husbands could be like hey you wifey no mas de esto! Por que I’m the man and I say so. But now it’s not as so. here they still talk like that. I was talking with chiquita on the way to parra and we started talking about dancing and all that turns out she knows a ton about it and she was even the head of a dancing club and her dream was to go dancing on those shows and stuff but her husband said she couldn’t dance anymore because some times dancing costumes were too reveling or something, I suggested just more clothes when dancing but she said she tried but he still said no. jacked up.. but yea she still happy at least though she’s got three kids O’Neil is my favorite he’s the youngest and a Picano! I love him every time he sees me he’s like z-lako! ha-ha and one time he’s dad gave him this huge sweet bread thing and he just holds it out in front of him and has HUGE eyes and just rotating it in his hands just says Diantre! Hah but like the whole way he said it and his face was super funny.
Last P' day we went to the waterfall! In addition, by it there’s huge cave! Well basically, it was the best pday EVER! We were all in the cave and bats would just occasionally just dart out from somewhere and elder Jimenez said he was hit in the head by one. I’m bad at telling stories but it was super super fun.
This pday we had to come to bani and spend the night here so we can go to the TEMPLE tomorrow! But what stinks is we have to fire 6 citas today! In addition, we didn’t have time to stop by and reschedule. (Sorry my spelling has gone down so much) and all 6 of there are people that are actually progressing. Which really stinks that we can’t go teach em. But hopefully they’ll understand it wasn’t our choice to fire them.
Speaking of investigators, megalina and willson still are not married! He said he’s going to go to the embassy in the capital this week to see if he can do something there about it... so fingers crossed there. I contacted them my very very first day and 12 weeks later still trying to get them married. He’s slowly making progress though. But with colera in the way in the border and money in the way of travel its super hard...
Out of those 6 references in la barra 6 seem like there super super legit! and were haven’t gotten new pamplets in forever so we ran out and for one of them we had to leave the word of wisdom for the first cita because Wally made us give one. But she read it and said yea... I’m living this already I tried cafe and don’t really like it, cafe is huge here so we were like YES! Ha-ha and as a first cita pamplet too! So either the 12 of March is going to be a day full of baptisms or going to be a really let down of three weeks to come... but I got faith in em they all seem super super ready for this. Some even the first few things they said to us are when can I get baptized and when can I go to the temple. Ha-ha pretty cool I think.
But yea feel free to write me,
Love yea
ELDER ZELASKO
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