Praying in a Puddle

We were given a referral to give a Book of Mormon to a woman who lives in a little mountain village. My comp and I rode a combi to the village. The woman had told us to get off at the Salad Shop, then to phone her and she would have her son come down to show us the way to her home.

The weather here has been very hot and dry, but during our ride, it began to rain extremely hard! When we exited the combi, we were quickly soaked! Our cell phone didn’t have reception so we couldn’t connect with the woman and her son.

In a COLD, heavy rain, we were quickly soaked to the skin! We knocked on stores and little huts, but no one would let us in. We even lied and said my comp had to use the bathroom….still no one would let us in out of the rain!

After 20 minutes of being rained on, we didn’t know what else to do. We knelt in a puddle and prayed to God that he would stop the rain so we could do His work. Within 5 minutes, the storm stopped. 10 minutes later, the sun came out, and we were able to find the woman’s house.  It was truly a miracle.

(Elder Shumway in Action....my comp likes to take pictures).

Feeling like a REAL Mexican!

Photos

The Elders from my district did 50 contacts, so we went and had desayuno. We are eating pastes.

We spend a LOT of time on buses, or combis (vans), so I try to take advantage of the siesta time.

(One time I woke up to find that I was leaning on a girl!)

Today we went up in the mountains with one of our investigators to see some lakes. The sun is incredibly strong here because the elevation is at 8,000 feet, so I sun burn a lot! I am now the tall RED guy!

Something else amazing is that in all of the fields they plow to plant corn & other crops in, you can walk and in 5 minutes easily find some sort of Aztec ruin! Every time the farmers go over the field with their tractor they stir up broken pots and figures from the Aztecs! That makes farming pretty sweet! I also found some cool stuff in the fields that I will bring home.

This new house that I live in is infested with cockroaches and a bunch of other weird bugs that I have never seen. The cockroaches come out in the dark so every night we kill a bunch.

In this new area, it isn’t uncommon to be walking down the street and run into a herd of cows or sheep. I like those times because it always makes things fun.