Xaxim Week 1--The Beginning

So as you all know, I am now in an area called Xaxim as of last week. Well so far it has been interesting. It is a little harder to work here because the people are not as receptive here. Also the last few missionaries that have been here were on the end of their missions and ``died´´ here. So there aren´t a lot of people to teach so far. This week we are doing our best to work, but we haven´t been making much headway. We are going to change the way we work a little so that we can work more effectively, but anyways it is starting to look good. On Wednesday I fasted, in part because I hadn´t fasted the last month because I had forgotten so I made it up this week. Then with Elder Verdugo I  fasted on Saturday/Sunday (lunch to lunch instead of dinner to dinner) Both of the fasts had to do with blessing the area and that we could find people to teach. We had some good results, some people that look like they are interested, and some others, but the biggest miracle of all this was the baptism that is falling from heaven.

On Sunday night we get a call from the assistants. They told us that there was a person who lives in our area who has been taught by the missionaries a lot, and that he travels a lot so he has visited a lot of wards. What they told us is that he basically knows everything, and that his girlfriend, who is a member of the church, is going to visit Portugal, and so he wants to be baptized before she leaves. So basically we are to just go there verify everything that has been taught, and baptize him this Saturday. Yes this is a miracle, and I testify that the Lord answers prayers/fasts, in many ways and sometimes better than you imagined.

Anyway about the District. In the district there is:

-Sister Martos from the Philippines
-Sister Bispo who is Brazilian
-Sister Fernandes who is Brazilian from the Bahia (it is very well known, and has a lot of stereotypes)
-Sister Laurenz who is from Argentina which also has a lot of stereotypes.
-me
-my companion Elder Verdugo
Sister Martos is companions with Sister Bispo, and Sister Fernandes is companions with sister Laurenz

Well a little bit about my companion Elder Verdugo. He is from Chile. he has 9 months on the mission. So he is like a nerdy rocker dude. He plays the guitar, and had a band before the mission. He really likes memes, and he knows quite a bit of English, and is learning Japanese.

Yeah anyway th-th-th-that´s all folks, and have a great week.

--Élder Pettingill
-District meeting
-my new Brazilian flip-flops (because my other ones broke)