Hey Fam!
This
week went well. Familia Venites came to the English class I teach on
Thursdays, as well as on Sunday, so they are doing well. We started
teaching the husband and the sister of the husband this week as well, Ramon and
Patricia. They didn’t make it to church on Sunday, but they have shown
considerable interest and have potential to progress. We teach English classes every Thursday. So far only
members have been coming, but they’ve invited their friends and we hope that it
will be a fountain of new investigators in the new future. It is a cool
experience, but I don’t think I will be an English teacher when I get
back. I prefer making snocones!
On
Wednesday we had intercambios (exchanges) again, I was with Elder Diaz in his
area. He is a mini-missionary, so it was a different experience being the
"senior companion" for a day. Not a ton of success numbers-wise
this week, but this week was more about quality than quantity. I gave a
talk on Sunday about prayer, and used a small portion of Elder Richard G. Scott’s talk from this past General Conference. Also, it is interesting to see
how the Lord answers prayers in different ways, the first 3 chapters of Ether in the Book of Mormon show 3 different ways that the Lord works to answer our
prayers. Also, I talked about the importance of family prayer, and how it
has blessed my life, and I learned at a young age the importance of prayer
because of it.
We
also had the chance to go visit the radio station this past week here in
Aimogasta and talk for a few minutes. The man who does the afternoon
"show" on Saturday’s and Sunday’s is Hermano Chumbita, and he invited
us to come yesterday and see how everything works. He had me talk a
little bit in English, apparently the people here love that. We also
talked a little bit about the gospel, which is always a good thing, kind of the
point that I’m here. It was a really neat experience.
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Answers
to your questions - There is a plaza here in town, but it’s always completely
empty. There aren’t very many opportunities here to do community
service. My favorite grass pokemon would have to be Scyther, he’s a
beast. The best thing I ate this week was milanesas. A scripture I shared this week, 3 Nephi 18, talking about prayer and in particular family
prayer, among other things. My comp is 22, from the capital of Nicaragua,
and is the 6th of 8 children. He’s my companion for another week, this
time next Monday I could very well have a different companion. Elder
Muñoz has already been in this area for 6 months, he’s pretty convinced he is
getting transferred, although he would like to stay here. Something I am
looking forward to this month...to get an email saying that the Pats won the
Superbowl would be nice. Also I look forward to studying every day.
I started this past week (yesterday) reading the Book of Mormon again and
highlighting a couple of different topics as I read, with them as my main
focus. Faith, the Atonement, Plan of Salvation, Revelation, and the
testimonies of the Prophets. It’s really given me a new perspective on
just how packed the Book of Mormon is of nuggets of spiritual goodness.
Sounds
like a fun weekend! Oh the things I would do to have a Chick Fil A
milkshake...y’all are lucky! Glad that Jake played well, he may end up
being better than me when I get back! Temple trips are always a good
experience, I am definitely looking forward to the Córdoba Temple
opening up and being able to do trips there. Glad to hear that everybody
is doing well! Hope y’all have a great day off from school, and a great
week!
Love,
Elder
Mangum
More Pictures from the Radio Station!
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