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Good week this week, had interviews with president, I always look
forward to having them just because our president is really awesome
and super smart so it's cool to talk to him one on one.

Had to push back the date for Edwin and Teresa's wedding and marriage
because Edwin's mom doesn't come down from Peru until the 26th and
they want her to be here for it, but recently we have been talking to
them about temples and they really wanna go to the temple open house
down in Hartford Connecticut, they actually wanted to go tomorrow but
it doesn't open until the 29th so they are gonna have to wait until
then and something else I found out is that we can get permission to
go with them to the open house even though it's out of the mission
boundaries, I was really excited when president said that, so we are
for sure going with them if they still wanna go on the 29th.

We had a super solid week of work this week, we taught a lot of people
and we were busy pretty much everyday, we also went on splits with the
APs, I stayed in our area and we had some cool miracles happen, we
were able to contact a family that we have not been able to talk to
for a while, it turns out that they stopped meeting with us because
they heard some stuff from the JWs, they just talk crap about
everybody, but we cleared up the problems and now they are back on
track. Also found a cool family who is really interested in learning,
we are going to teach them again tomorrow.

Love,

Elder Pugmire

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This week we worked hard, we tried to do a lot of finding and we tried
a little bit of street contacting but it's just super weird and
everybody was giving us weird looks so we just stuck to knocking doors
and we found some pretty cool people, one of them is this guy named
Robert and he was really interested in what we had to share, he
immediately pulled up 3 chairs and we just sat in his front porch
teaching him, it was cool.

Also ran into some crazy guy who wants to do missionary work with us
because we told him that we are Christians, he thinks everyone is evil
and that the governments is run by the devil and that we shouldn't
trust anyone, we were trying to leave but for a little while he
wouldn't let us go because he said that we needed to listen to him
that's the reason why we knocked on his door. This guy was nuts! I got
scared for a little bit at first.

Gave a talk in sacrament meeting on service it was pretty fun, giving
talks in Spanish is a lot easier then English for me because if I make
a mistake or something the members already know that I'm a gringo so
it's ok, but if it's in English then it's a different story.

Haven't been to the temple for a while now but today we were playing
basketball at the church and president saw us playing because his
house is literally like 10ft away from the church after everybody left
me and elder nutall had a cool chat with him and now he is taking us
out tomorrow morning to the temple and breakfast so that's sweet.

Also tomorrow after the temple we are gonna go get a marriage license
with Edwin at the courthouse, so that hey can get married and then
baptized. We are super excited for them.

Love,
Elder Pugmire

Westchester round ✌🏼️

Transfer call were this week I'm still staying with elder nutall. I
have realized that y'all probably don't even know what elder nutall
looks like and that's because I only took like 3 pictures this cycle
but I will send them in this email so y'all know.

This week we had a decent week it wasn't super busy but we made the
best out of it, we did a lot of finding this week mainly because we
can't set return appointments with anyone except like 2 families, and
we found a couple of people that seemed pretty cool. We also went on
splits this week with the district leader, elder nutall went to
Yonkers and I stayed here with elder Olson, we had a great split we
were able to teach a couple of great lessons and found this one guy
named Ramon, we will visit him tomorrow.

Edwin and Teresa are doing great, both of them came to church this
week, it was Teresa's first time, she said that she really liked it.
We also had a super good lesson with them last Thursday on marriage,
we brought the branch president with us to help us and at the end we
set a goal with them to get married by September 10, so if everything
goes according to plan they could get baptized this cycle, right now
we are working with them to get their marriage license.

Some pictures here

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Don't have too much time to write but also don't have too much to write about.

Here's a quick report on our most progressing investigators Edwin and
Teresa, we had a super good FHE lesson with them on Thursday and we
talked about families, Carolina the member who had us over for the FHE
helped us out a lot, she had some really good input along with her
returned missionary son, Edwin and Teresa really liked doing FHE.

On Sunday Edwin was able to make it to church with his son Aaron, he
asked his boss for a day off and he let him go, Sunday meeting were
great! Unfortunately Teresa couldn't get work off but she said she
will try this week. Later that night we had another lesson with them
and we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and read 2 nephi 31, in
the lesson Edwin expressed to us that he really want to get baptized
and knows this church is true but Teresa still has doubts about why
they need to get married before being baptized so we are having
another lesson with them tomorrow and we are bringing President
Gomez(branch pres.) with us to talk about the law of chastity and
eternal marriage and stuff like that, it's gonna be great!

That's basically the best stuff from this past week.

Love,

Elder Pugmire

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Happy one year mark to me!! In 2 days it will be one years since I left.

Like I mentioned in the last letter that this week was gonna be slow
and it was because of all the meetings that we had, I think it was
like 5 and they lasted for a pretty long time but I learned a lot from
them, there's this one meeting that was focused on technology and how
we can better use our iPads and skype and Facebook to have more
success as missionaries to spread the gospel, it really opened up my
mind and gave me some good suggestions on how I can better use those
tools to help others come closer to Christ, in the meeting they said
that like almost 1/2 the people in the world have access to Internet
and these days it's so easy to share something about the church on
social media all we have to do is click some buttons it's as easy as
that.

Our investigators are doing good, Edwin and Teresa are so cool, we had
a lesson with them on Monday and we were planning on talking about
tithing but then Edwin just had a whole bunch of questions and it just
ended up being a Q&A for like 40 minutes but we were able to teach
them more about the plan of salvation because that's what he mainly
had questions on. They have a testimony of this gospel but they have a
difficult work schedule and so they can't come to church, they have
been before but not since I got here, so out goals with them are to
come to church and to get married because they are also not married
and they have a kid, we are actually having a FHE at a members house
tomorrow night and we are gonna talk about families, I'm pretty
excited for that.

Something I have become good at is teaching the restoration lesson
because that's pretty much the only lesson we get to teach before the
person disappears or is no longer interested, we have found a couple
of people that we have set return appointments for so we'll see how
that turns out.

Had 2 investigators at church this week so that was pretty cool, it
was a daughter of a couple that we teach and her friend, I think they
enjoyed it and learned a lot, we have a lesson with them this week so
hopefully all 7 of them can come to church, that would be sweet.

The sacrament meeting was pretty long because the 3rd speaker started
to talk at like 2:15 and church is suppose to be over at 2 so we
didn't end up finishing until 2:45, so we had extra 45 minutes of
church, I'm not complaining because it's more time that our
investigators spend at church but you could just see that everybody
was ready to go.

Excited to see what this week brings.

Love,

Elder Pugmire