Well my friends, I had a fantastic
week.
A lot of good things are happening
here in Montufar, new investigators, progressing investigators and an
incredibly smooth run on the Change Meeting this last week. I finally feel like
I'm getting in the hang of things as a Financial Secretary (even though my math
is still rubbish).
So what's new?
On Sunday the Francos, went to
church! Walter AND his wife, Ingrid were both able to make it to the meetings!
And the members in our ward were just all over them, ready to fellowship, to
hold their baby, and answer all their questions.
Wow.
You know, that's probably the
biggest lesson that I've learned during the course of my mission: It's not
really as much about being a better missionary (well, it is but..), its really
about being a better member of my own church! Now I know what things I need to
do to to improve in that aspect!
Elder Gil and I have been working
really hard, and now we're are starting to see some fruits! We were able to
finish off the week satisfied with the work we had done.
Monday was my birthday, and an
incredibly eventful day at that. We had to prepare ourselves for the Change
Meeting, so we were cooped up in the offices until around 8 o'clock at night.
It was a really long day, but what made it awesome was that at the end of the
day, Sister Gonzales invited the four of us to her house for a Good Bye Elder
Mendez/Happy Birthday Elder Monson, where we ate Cake and KFC. It was an
awesome day! And It was also great because Sister Stay and Sister Trapnell (the
President's wife and the Mission Nurse) made brownies for my birthday! And we
gave President and Sister Stay matching office jerseys (Everyone in the offices
had one too!). It was just overall a great day.
Tuesday was the Transfer Meeting, and things went really smoothly. My good friend Elder Mendez had transfers to Milagro, so that was kind of sad to see him go. And now, we have Elder Walton and Elder Rosales as companions! Elder Rosales is a great guy from El Salvador, I met him during my time in Jutiapa, so I was glad to see him again. It was another good and surprisingly uneventful day!
And when you're handling money, uneventful
is exactly how you want your days to go.
The rest of the week just sort of
followed suit: Normal, but good! All the "Dead" missionaries stayed
over on Tuesday and Wednesday night as they visited their past areas and told
stories of all the things that they had seen and done during their missions. I
learned a lot from all 12 of them, each had his own different personality, but
all of them were great missionaries nonetheless. On Thursday morning at 4
o'clock they all got in their taxis and got going to the airport.
The down side was they left our
house a mess. Elder Gil and I spent our Thursday morning cleaning up Pizza
Boxes and Sprite Cans.
But that was okay.
On Thursday we found a new
investigator, Manuela. She's the Fiancé of a member, and she is very open to
listening to us. Elder Gil and Elder Delgado had taught her a few times the
week before I arrived in the area, but then she went to live with her family
for a few months...but now she came back! We taught her twice this week,
recapping the Restoration, and challenged her to be baptized. And she accepted!
I think we're going to see some awesome progress there!
And that brings us to yesterday,
where we spent the whole day driving to banks all around the Capital and paying
the rent for various houses in the mission. It was an adventure, that took from
2 o'clock until 7...I had a lot of fun though, so I can't complain.
Which didn't leave us with very
much time to do much else.
But that was okay because I was
able to taste the new Cheeserito from Taco Bell and it pretty much changed the
way I saw Burritos.
-Elder Monson
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