Week 77 - Retiro

 This week was really crazy.  On Tuesday it was Christmas Eve and everyone in the villa was going crazy and drinking a ton and on top of that it was insanely hot out.  It was nice.  We had dinner with a part member family and shared a message then went running back to the pension.  On Christmas morning it was literally a ghost town and nobody was awake.  We did end up having a lesson with Cristofer a kid who is 18.  He is really interested and ended up going to church on Sunday and really liked it.  We had a really fun lunch with the Herrera family on Christmas and then went to the chapel to call our families.  On Tuesday it was another great day.  We found a ton of new people to teach even though it was raining a ton.  On Friday I went to San Cristobal to do a baptismal interview for a guy the elders are teaching that is literally a baptism on a plate that fell from the sky.  This guy was about to join the church in Venezuela but then had to flee here to Argentina so he was really excited and prepared.  On Sunday we had several people in the church.  We are teaching a family that has a 6 year old kids named Emir and to get him to be quiet the other elders used to give him our flip phone which had some games so he would play and be quiet.  So now whenever we go over he always asks for our phone.  On Saturday I told him that when he came to church on Sunday we would let him play on the phone.  Then on Sunday morning they show up like 10 minutes late and Emir burst in and yells at us " Elder can I play the games now?" It was pretty funny.  We also had a dude from Haiti come to church.  I'm pretty sure he didn't understand anything but I think he liked it.  We have really been focusing on working with the members more this week and have been bringing them everywhere we go with us.  We have had great success and both the investigators and members are getting more excited.