Elders Ogden and Alexander with another elder at Zone Conference.
This week was a pretty fun one with a lot of miracles!! I loved it but at the same time I don't remember anything and don't know what's going on. So hold on.
On Monday we had dinner with a family named the Albrechtsens. They are awesome, and actually live pretty much in my old area, but were brought into Kaw River to help the youth. He is a professional artist. He actually has artwork in temples and even painted the mural in one the rooms in the Kansas City temple. The man has so much talent and he is awesome.
We had Zone conference on Tuesday, which was awesome. We had Elder Ringwood of the 70 there and his wife, who is the daughter of President Nelson. They have like the same eyes it was crazy.
We had a Portuguese dinner this week! We were actually able to understand a lot, and they could understand a lot of what we were saying in Spanish, too. The languages are very similar, it's just vocab that’s different (and probably other things.) It was fun and they are the nicest people in the world. The husband (of the young couple that lives here) is going to KU Medical school and he had his mom from Brasil visiting (his wife is also from Brasil). It was super fun.
One night we were in an area of town and we just got done talking to someone at around 8:50ish, and we stop working at 9 o’ clock. We weren't gonna drive anywhere else, because we didn't have a lot of time or anything, so we just street contacted outside of a bar and then a liquor store parking lot. The people were actually pretty nice haha. Just kind of ironic.
We are teaching a Cuban man named Andrés. Every Cuban I've ever met has just the most crazy story about how they got to the country, because they literally have to sacrifice everything. This guy in particular pretty much walked through Guinea, Brasil, then Peru, in a lil boat around Nicaragua to Ecuador, to Panama, and then there for 3 months to work a bit, then to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and here. He would go like 5 days with no food, no water. Just the nicest guy in the world though. But every Cuban just has some crazy story. He got arrested once he was here due to immigration, but they apparently are pretty lenient with Cubans because the country is so bad or something. It was really humbling. Cubans are also very hard to understand, probably the hardest. Even other Hispanics have a hard time, so we know the gift of tongues is with us in those lessons.
Love you so much, thank you for everything!!
Elder Ogden
P.S. a bird pooped on me
Note from Esther: Zachary sent me this most beautiful quote that just absolutely melted my heart. The English translation is roughly, "For me there is nothing better in existence than a mother that loves/moves me, I would choose her in a thousand more lives".
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