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| Tierra Amarilla Mission District |
This week has been a whirlwind of a week for everyone,
with a little bit of marriage, some baptism interviews, a soccer
tournament, a Hercules play and a festival. The marriage was a team
effort for part of other missionaries in Copiapo bringing the couple to
get married, and for my part, organizing everything for the marriage in
Tierra Amarilla. It was a very last minute thing, but all went well and
the family of the couple came into town from Santiago to see it all.
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| The happy couple! |
I
interviewed a boy named Pietro that got baptized by the missionaries in
my district. We started having soccer games in the church and in
neighboring wards, we are going for a stake wide soccer league if we can
get enough support. Also there was an activity in the stake for the
youth and I got to help out a bit with the rehearsal and making the
costumes. I didn't go, but I heard that it was a great success. Saturday
night there was a sort of running with the bulls in Tierra Amarilla.
But instead of using bulls they dressed a couple of guys up as bulls,
and then they took some more guys and dressed them up as women and they
have them hit people with little bags of potatoes. I am still not sure
how the tradition started but we took advantage of the time to a ton of
contacts and to tell everyone about the English classes we are doing.
This last week was probably one of the weeks where I was able to get more done in the 7 days than I can usually get done in 3 weeks.
But all of that came at a price. Apparently I was doing too much too
fast and my companion, the mini missionary, got bummed out or really
over whelmed with all that we did and he decided that he needed to go
home. His is still going to go to his normal mission whenever that time
comes around, but he just got really intimidated with all the stuff that
we were doing and the pace at which we did all the work.
As
it turns out there is no one else that can replace him, so for these
next two weeks I will be back in Copiapo again. I'm not sure where I
stand right now with Tierra Amarilla. I am referring to if I will go
back for another transfer or not. If I do go back, it will be my 6th
transfer there, which is 10 month and a really long time. The normal is
usually about 4 or 5 months. I guess we will just wait and see.
Thank you again for all of your prayers and support.
Love,
Elder Brayton
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| Soccer on concrete? |
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