Wednesday we had like 8 lessons which was nuts, and about half of them were with people we hardly ever talk to. Our guy Francisco that is on date to be baptized is doing awesome, but he also hasn't come to Church the past two weeks cause he just started working again, but that's okay we still have time to help him out.
Juan Carlos who was the dude drinking in one of my emails a while back is doing good too! We missed an appointment that we had with him, but he said that while he was waiting for us he started to read the BOM, and he said it helped his testimony a lot. So proud of my buddy, he even came to church again this past week.
Unfortunately we had to drop one of our fav families this past week because the wife feels super uncomfy with the chats. We also found out that they aren't reading the BOM nor praying, so that was frustrating. They were adamant in their decision tho, so bye bye familia Heim :')
Last dude I wanted to talk about is crazy awesome. Ivan comes from a mega catholic family (like house crawling with virgenes de guadalupe statues, paintings, etc.) and has loads of uncles who are pastors. Ivan even went and studied in a bit time Seminary for about a year to become some sort of pastor too. His faith started to falter a little bit there after seeing some leadership corruption and just the general culture/beliefs of the catholic church here in Mexico.
Cool thing is tho is that during this time, he had a sweet friend that was a member. They would talk about their beliefs and just hang out, and he just couldn't get over how happy and put together this guy seemed.
Fast forward a little more, Ivan dropped out of Catholic Seminary to figure out who God is, and now, remembering the example of his good friend, wants to learn everything about the church!! He's got loads of potential and I'm so stoked for him. Also I feel like I'm living the talk "conversion of a Catholic" so that's super fun ahaha.
But ya, other crazy thing was when I went to the hospital!! I've been having stomach problems for about 2-ish months, but last Thursday I got way sicker than all the other times. My fever wasn't going down and my body wasn't responding to the meds we had so we left around 11 pm to go to the hospital.
We waited there for about an hour, and when they finally let us in they pretty much told me that they don't know exactly what's happening to me, but that I'm probably intolerant to a certain food or that I have an infection in my intestines. And then we left without doing any real tests or anything, which was cool. lol.
From there, the medicines they gave me weren't really helping, but I finally started feeling better Saturday morning, and Sunday was all better. Final diagnosis was a super inflamed intestines that at one point was bleeding a little bit hehe. Fun stuff, but not we're okay!
So super sorry for this long email, but thanks if you got to here. I love you guys all a ton. I love this church. I find comfort in the fact that God puts us where we need to be, especially if we follow his commandments.
Love you guys, keep saying your prayers ;)
-Elder Winegar
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-me and Elder Estrada
-my cat
-baby baby cat
-freaky arm kid
-me at the laboratory to take a poop test
-freaky arm kid again
-dying
-dying
-dying
-first scorpion I've found on the Mish!
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