We had a rough week. We got poured on, and then we got really sick, so we were just kinda dragging ourselves around for half of the week. But it was really funny for some reason, and we still visited a lot of really great people and did some really cool service. And we got pranked really, really hard by the zone leaders.
So our friend William wanted to make a wall in his house this week, so we helped him out. We made cement on the ground with a bunch of dirt we found in his back yard mixed with pebbles and a bit of cement powder, and then we built a wall out of cinder blocks. He taught us how to cut a cinder block in half with a machete, which is actually really hard. But we did it, and the wall is pretty nice. Almost all of the houses here are made out of cinder blocks and then smoothed and painted with an interesting color, and we now know how to do it. We also went to Rio Santiago to build a well for some friends over there. Her house is in a complete jungle, and she showed us some really cool Mayan inscriptions she found on some boulders back there. It was really fun actually, and we´ll have to finish it next week because we got rained out halfway through. But it´s all good.
So April Fools happened this week, and my companion and I completely forgot that it existed...but our zone leaders didn´t. They called us that day and sounded really serious and concerned. They said that someone in our branch had called them with a complaint, because he had seen us sitting on the curb drinking alcohol. He apparently took a video and sent it to them, and they said it definitely looked like we were drunk. They told us they had called the mission assistants to see what to do, and they were giving us both emergency changes immediately. I told him I wasn´t sure what he could´ve seen, but we didn´t do that. But he told me that I couldn´t really deny what was clearly in the video, and maybe we didn´t remember it because we were drunk. And we were like ¡¿WHAT?! So finally they told us it was all just an April Fools joke, and we got really mad. it was actually super funny though, and we were completely and totally fooled.
I am really excited this week. The General Conference of the church is coming up this Saturday and Sunday, and we get to listen to the prophet and the 12 apostles on a live video broadcast that goes to the entire world. If that doesn´t sound like a big deal, imagine Moses and the original twelve apostles in the Bible coming back to talk to us about what we need to do to live better lives and be happier. The general authorities today have been called of God and given the exact same authority that Jesus gave them in the Bible, and we get to hear them give us modern revelation for God. The scriptures tell us really great things, but there are a lot of things that are around today that the scriptures couldn´t have talked about, like modern technology and world news. The world is changing, and so God is still telling us what He wants us to do to come closer to Him and stay on the path that leads to eternal life. So we are super excited to hear what He wants from us, and we made really cool invitations to invite everyone to come and listen too. It´s awesome, and I know we´re going to learn a lot of really awesome things. Not to mention that we have a couple hunches about changes to the mission that they may announce. ;)
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
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