Que lo que?

Pretty normal this week, nothing too exciting happened but it was
still a really productive week and a lot of changes were made to the
mission.

So that changes that were made is mainly to the missionary schedule.
It's no longer what it use to be and it actually gives a lot more
freedom to choose instead of just like doing things hour by hour, so
we no longer start studies at 8 they changed it so it's at 830 and we
end at around 10 so that we have more time to go out and do missionary
work, leavening the apartment at 10 is a little bit weird because I
never really had the chance to do it because before we would do
personal then companion then language study and by the time we
finished study it would be 11 so we would eat lunch and hen leave so
we wouldn't leave until like 12 or later so that's better, as well as
on pdays we also have extra time, before pday started at 10 because we
had to do 2 hours of study but now they changed so that we can start
pday at 8 so it gives us more time to do stuff, we still study on pday
but it's only for 30 minutes and we don't do comp study, also they
changed the key indicators and now there's only 4 instead of 9, oh ya
and we learned all of this stuff because we had a missionary
conference thing and we watched them talk on tv it was pretty cool, I
liked this one more then last years.

The weather is not too cold, still have to wear a jacket and gloves
but only when the wind blows really hard other then that it's not that
bad, we haven't had snow for a while now, maybe it will hit hard in
February.

Gave a talk on Sunday, I didn't really know for how long to speak for
and didn't know if I was gonna be 1st 2nd or 3rd because they didn't
tell me so I prepared for the worst and hoped for the best, I ended up
being the second speaker, while I was speaking the bishop slipped me a
note saying "your time is up" time went by so fast while I was up
there and I actually took up some time from the last speaker, I felt
bad and so I apologized afterwards but the hermana said it was ok.

We still have the same investigators, and only 1 person with a
baptismal date, his name is Harold he is a kid of a recent convert
he's like 17 we set it with him for the 25th of February and also we
took Awildas baptismal date off because she wasn't progressing and she
wasn't gonna be ready, I think we will give her some time off and just
work with her recent convert son, other then that things are still
pretty much the same.

Love,
Elder Pugmire

Bounce back

Hello everybody, so this week really flew by, it seems like January
just started by here we are in the last full week of January that's
pretty crazy.

We had a good week this week, we have been meeting a lot of new cool
people and a lot of part member families, there's this one really cool
less active lady that we visited and she has 5 kids living with her,
the kids are not hers but are staying with her, I think she's like a
foster parent or something but she really wants these kids to learn
about Jesus so we are pretty excited to work with them, she told us
that most of these kids had a pretty hard childhood so we can
defiantly help them out by teaching them about the Gospel.

We started playing basketball with the youth here every Friday and
that's always fun, the reason we started is because we're teaching a
kid named Harold who is a son of a recent convert and he really likes
basketball, we are gonna set a baptismal date with him soon, hopefully
tomorrow if it feels right.

So the super awesome Mexican family that I talked about before, they
are doing really good and this week we had a super awesome lesson with
them and we had a member present and everything, we taught them about
the plan of salvation and they were really happy and so were we, as we
were leaving the lesson Lidia the wife was like hey I forgot to tell
you guys but we are going back to Mexico in about 2 weeks for like 6
months and we were like what??? It completely killed the vibe😞 but
that's ok we will just send their teaching records down their and
hopefully they get baptized over there because they are super dope but
for right now we will do everything we can to help them learn more.

Hope everybody has a good week.

Love,

Elder Pugmire

Another week in the best mission ever!

First of I just wanna say that I'm liking this area more and more
every day, I feel like this area is perfect for me and my companion,
we haven't been seeing as much success as we want to but we also feel
like we are trying our best and we are working really hard to make
good things happen in hunts point.

We do have one investigator with a baptismal date for the 4th of
February it a lady her name is Awilda, she has had a lot of baptismal
dates in the past and she almost got baptized but she didn't because
she forgets things really easily so we are taking it nice and slow
with her right now.

We also found a cool guy named Luis, he is going through some trials
in his life right now but yesterday we had a lesson with him and it
was super cool, the spirit was way strong.

Speaking of the spirit, this is just a quick thing that came to my
mind right now. we were teaching some less actives 2 sons and a mom
and like 20 minutes into the lesson her other son came in from work
and he told us that right before he unlocked the door to come it he
felt the spirit super strong and he immediately knew that the
missionaries were at his house. It's nothing big but it makes me feel
good that we are doing the things we are suppose to so that we can
have the spirit with us and also help other feel it.

We found a super cool family from Mexico that is really interested in
learning about the gospel, they are a older couple with like 3 or 4
sons, I'm not sure on that because we only met 2 of them but they said
that there's more, anyways this lady her name is Lidia apparently she
had a Book of Mormon for a while now and has been reading it and
already knows so much about it but wants to learn more, we are going
over there tonight so hopefully we can set some baptismal dates with
them, that would be really sweet!

Mucho frío

So this week has been a REALLY cold week, yesterday we had lookups
planned for about 3 hours after church because we had no lessons set
and literally out of like 30 people that we looked up in that 3 hours
only one person answered the door and she seemed pretty interested so
we set up a return appointment for Wednesday it turns out that her
little brother took the missionary lessons about 2 years ago so shes
pretty familiar with the missionaries but never actually sat in the
lessons but anyways as I was saying before that it was super cold it
was like 15 but with the wind it was like 5, I was wearing a sweater
and 2 jackets and still almost froze to death haha this year is by far
colder then last year❄️🌨 also it snowed a whole bunch.

So like I said before we do a whole bunch of lookups and right now we
don't have a lot of solid investigators that we are teaching because
the mbachi family from Angola that we teach got baptized Saturday and
Sunday they got confirmed members, so the sad part of this is that
they wanna be part of the English ward instead of the Spanish ward
because only the mom speaks Spanish but that's ok because we will
still visit them for a couple of weeks before we pass them off to the
English missionaries and also we will, see them at church every
Sunday, they are such an amazing family and their faith in Christ is
really really strong. They are just awesome.

That is all for this week.

Love elder Pugmire

2017

Happy new year everybody!!

Well it's a new year and I'm in a new area, that's right back in the
Bronx, specifically in Hunts Point, my new companion is elder
Santibañez, he is Mexican so I was pretty excited to work with a
Hispanic companion so that I can learn better Spanish but it turns out
that he was born in the US and his parents never spoke Spanish to him
when he was little so he pretty much learned it all here from scratch.
Oh well.

So this week was a really hard working week for us, upstate is nothing
like the city, we walk a TON here it gets pretty tiring, every night
we just come home and plan and then I just go straight to bed because
I'm super exhausted. In this area we do a lot of lookups and we just
try to get to know the members because we don't know anybody so it's
kinda hard to get set lessons but we did pretty good, we actually have
a baptism this Saturday for a lady named Albertina and her 2 sons
Andre and Euler they are from Angola Africa so they speak Portuguese
but they understand Spanish because it's really similar but we just
teach them in English because she understands just as much English as
she does Spanish. On Saturday we had a lesson with them on tithing and
we thought it was gonna be a harder lesson for her to understand
because she is working really hard and doesn't get a lot of money and
has to support a family of 3 by herself because she also had a 2 year
old and she works a lot, there are days where she starts work at 6am
and doesn't get home until 12 am, and some months she doesn't have
enough money to pay rent but she accepted to live the law of tithing
and doesn't have a problem with that at all, this family is really
solid and a super prepared family and we are really excited for them
and the decision that they made to be baptized.

Love,
ElderPugmire