Its been a pretty fun week, we were able to find some good service opportunities (my fav). We helped with two moves and met some really cool people through them.
Then we were also able to help one of the members, Enrique in his campo. He got polio when he was a kid so one of his legs is pretty messed up and he walks with a crutch all the time. This man is a beast though. He knows how to do literally everything and he is self taught. First of he started with a shoe store. He figured out how to repair shoes and opened up a shop. He ended up running the place for 40 years! He saved most of his money and when he retired he went across to Puerto Real just on the other side of the bay and bought a plot of land. When he bought the land it was just dirt. He has done so much to it! Including building their entire house themselves! They started off just with one room, which is now the living room. They would use it for everything. The tractor was even parked in there! It was truly impressive, and it is still a work in progress. They are adding on two new rooms for visiting family on the side. We went there to cut wood because the house is only heated by a fire burning stove. So we cut a ton of firewood and stacked it so it can dry over the summer and be usable next winter. Since they are not connected to the power grid the electricity is provided by solar panels on the roof. They also have hot water thanks to a cool solar water heating contraption they’ve got. Elder Moffat and I just loved being out there playing around with axes and wheelbarrows, it brought back tons of fun memories. We are hoping to go back sometime soon because they promised to teach us how they slaughter the chickens haha.
Well we also received some other crazy news this week. We are now an online proselytizing mission. On Wednesday we got facebook on our iPads and its super weird! This upcoming Wednesday we are having a conference where we will be trained in how to use it and also receive the new smartphones. Really exciting stuff! I was thinking the other day how many changes have happened during just my time in the mission and it's crazy. The Lords work is rolling forward and filling the whole earth as prophesied. It will be a great blessing for us to have these new tools that will enable us to reach out to even more people.
Thank you for the love and prayers!
- Élder Alex M. Childers
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