Mission Week 13, Cucuta Week 8, "My Spanish is getting better each day."

HOLA como estan!?

We have six baptismal dates set for the month of April! I've been learning so much about how to succeed as a missionary. The first thing is compromisos. We invite our investigators to pray, read, and come to church with us. When they keep these commitments they are growing spiritually. Growing spiritually increases knowledge of the gospel. Increasing your knowledge in the gospel helps them to learn about the need to REPENT and to get BAPTIZED. Then after this is to endure to the end! Its really a beautiful process. I love to see our investigators as they go through these changes realizing how we can find answers, and how we can feel true peace and happiness in this life.

We got to use machetes AGAIN Haha! Im gonna be a sword swinging master when I get back so watch out. I want to bring one back with me but Im not sure if I'll get through the airport with one of those.

We have started to go on splits with the priests in our ward.  I'm going on splits and teaching by myself! This is definitely a challenge but surprisingly I can do it! My Spanish is getting better each day.

This Morning (Monday) we were eating empanadas and just chilling. While chilling with our empanadas we saw two guys off in the distance fighting over something. They moves closer to us and I saw that they were fighting over dos mil pesos. But it wasn't that either of them wanted it, they were actually fighting over who would take it. The man who had the money in his hand was very angry at the fact that this man was not taking the 2 pesos. He continued his rampage by screaming to the top of his lungs and throwing the money at the guy. Crazy people live here and I love it!!

Love,
Elder Horton

Impressions of Cucuta:
1.) If you want something to eat, just walk outside your house because 9 times out of 10 there's a person selling empanadas on your street.
2.) There aren't any gas stations here, people hold up bottles on the side of the road and swing them in the air for people to know that they have gas and ready to give and sell it.
3.) Candy from the Unites States is super expensive here. For example, M&Ms in a normal small sized bag is 10 mil pesos. Thats like $3.50 in the US!