Week 35 2/23/15

2/23/15

Hey Everyone!

Its another P-day! haha, and as of wednesday i will hit my 8 month mark! Wow, that has flown by fast! some people told me that the mission is like a time warp but i didnt realize how truly fast they ment! Im going to be home before i know it haha, guess i better work harder and harder then! gotta do the lords work while i have time :)

So this week we have still been working with Micah a lot as well as alfredo. They both are doing awesome!! just progressing over time. we hope that they can come to church and keep on keeping their commitments! They are awesome though!

Other then that this week has been full of so many different things!

We will start off at tuesday:

It was an awesome day truly, We went right after studys to help the sisters teach their investigator named Maria Llamas! she is super cool and really wants to be baptized! So, we taught her a lesson and then we went to a chinese buffet with her haha. it was a great time and she really enjoyed it! (she even later came to both sessions of stake conference!) Then me and Elder Faustin were on exchange and we went out with a member to see Diego, one of our recent converts and then took micah to play ball with us at the church! it was a super awesome time!

Wednesday: We went store contacting in the morning to try something new and to really try and do work on exchange and we found some awesome people for Elder Faustin and Ruano. Then we exchanged back and me and elder gunther took some time to fix our area book. the last few missionaries that were here did not treat it well... but now it will be really usefull for us! Then we had dinner at the Mays house (awesome lder couple in our branch) and finished out the night contacting.

thursday: We had a great zone conference! My mission is really trying to focus on member missionary work! its so much easier to find and teach with members than alone! For instance, about 1/1000 people we contact will be baptized, but 1/3 member referals get baptized. So thats a HUGE difference! So right now we are really trying to work with members more. i think each of you should try and help out missionaries too! (as time permits of course) its truly amazing how much better lessons go when members are present :) Here is a little spiritual video about that :)

https://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/members-and-missionaries

Its the video called "Ill go where you want me to go" Its awesome :)

Friday: we had a great football night! lots of non members came and hopefully we will be able to start teaching some!

Saturday: We helped move some of the senior missionaries haha. It was not to hard but it took a while, they are super awesome though! elder and sister newman is there name. Then we had stake conference and ran around like crazy trying to make sure all the translation stuff would work right the whole time etc. It was a blast hah.

Sunday: We worked out a much better system for translating for the branch and we had a really good stake conference! We then had an awesome lesson with stepfan, one of our investigators, and he is comming to church with us on sunday! We also had an awesome healthy dinner made by the vaughns. ( a yound implant family in our branch) She is from peru, but it very into health and so we had this brown rice and chicken and shrimp dish, it was awesome! 

Then today we are planning on going to the civil rights museum! should be a blast! Please watch the video! it has a great message about it with out using any words :)

love yall!