Buenas!!
To get right into it... Clemira, as always, is the highlight of the week! She is progressing very nicely, and I pray and hope that she gets baptized this week! However, she is mostly the highlight because she always gives us food. This week's specialty was hot dogs, bread, and cheese. Pretty tasty!
We also had intercambios this week! It was sooooo weird! Haha! But, it was a lot of fun! And, I probably had the funniest experience yet. I was with Elder Chic here in San Felix. He was determined to put a fecha for someone here. The only lesson that didn't fall through was Clemira. I explained to Elder Chic what we were teaching, and that Clemira was on date to be baptized. But, he had other plans in mind. As we started teaching, Elder Chic began with a completely different lesson, so I just went with it. Then out of nowhere, Elder Chic invited her to be baptized!!!!! I was literally dying! It was hilarious! They were both so confused. Then I just played it off and hyped up Clemira. Literally it was the strangest thing.
Then Elder Chic and I ate with La Familia Hohosh. It was a good time! Then we went back home. Elder Chic wanted to arm wrestle me, so we did a few matches. It was fun...for me! Haha! That night he was being super weird. He kept turning on and off the light, and running back to his bed, trying to scare me or something. Well, little did he know I am very, very good at scaring people. So, the next time he turned the light off, I may or may not have scared the crap out of him. I most definitely did. The next day he told me that I "gave him fear." I love Elder Chic. He is such a wild man.
Also, people keep having me grab lemons off trees for them. Elder Castillo had me do it, Elder Benitez had me do it, and this random little girl asked me to do it too. I guess I found my new talent in life - jumping for lemons.
Mountain day was really good too! This week I was fed chicken feet instead of cow's feet. We also went exploring in Oma which was pretty interesting! During our 'mountain day,' it started to pour! So, being the extremely prepared missionaries we are, we took out our garbage bags and put them on. Then we used leaves to cover our heads. It sounds really stupid, and it looks stupid too, but it works!
Church was good as well! I finally met the bishop! He just kinda said "Good job Elders! See you sometime!" He doesn't want much to do with San Felix. We also had a sacrament meeting in Guabo. It was pretty cool to do the sacrament in the jungle/mountain! Truly this gospel is for everyone.
And as always, the spiritual thought. I'm sure everyone has asked at one point while doing math "When will I ever use this in my life?" I know I have. Well, I finally found my answer. There I was helping a little girl understand how to do her absolutely useless math. I love math! I really do! But this was the math that is genuinely useless. Yet, here I was, using my useless knowledge to help another gain the same useless knowledge. Oh, how my teachers would laugh at me now. "We told you that this math was important! It's like we've always said, this math will be important when you are serving a mission and are up in the jungle where the biggest problem, second to the fact that there's no water, is a little girl's math homework."
You may be wondering by now what this has to do with a spiritual thought. Well, my thought came while helping this little girl. The gospel is similar to learning math. Now, I could have just done the math for her, but then she wouldn't have learned anything. So, I had to explain it to her. Little by little, I explained how to do everything. Now, she was still a little confused, but with me by her side she wasn't scared to practice. Practice is the only way we learn how to do things. And how to do them well. The more practice we have, the better we become and the more confidence we gain. Well, it's all the same with the gospel. We have to practice every aspect of the gospel to become better and gain confidence in it. And just like this little girl had more courage to practice because I was next to her, it is the same with us. Christ is always right next to us. Every week, every day, and every hour we have the chance to practice. If we fail, Christ just helps us correct the mistake, and we keep practicing.
I love this gospel with all my heart. I testify that it is true, and that it is where joy is found. I'm so thankful for a loving Savior who died for me so that I may practice everyday to become more like Him. I love you all so much! And I encourage you all to keep practicing this gospel. Do the basics everyday and the amount of growth will be immeasurable. Please keep praying for San Felix! Especially La Hermana Clemira! Love you all!
-Elder Lutze
P.S. Our phone died for good. So I don't know when we will have that back. So sorry for not responding to some people!
E. Chic and E. Lutze - Intercambios
E. Lutze and E. Benitez in their rain gear!
E. Lutze on Mountain Day
E. Lutze and E. Chic with Flia Hohosh
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