Ok, so Transfers were today. And
today is my P day. Sorry that I didn’t write yesterday, it because a new group
of missionaries arrives yesterday, and we were asked to take them out and work
with us for the day, so President changed our P day from yesterday to
today.
That was actually a lot of fun :) I
we were asked to work with two new, Latino missionaries for the day, so we did
divisions and went to work 2 in 2 for the day. I was with Elder Dominguez from Michoacán,
and he is pretty great. is a convert of 2 and half years, the only member of
his family, and 24 years Old! had just about finished studying and everything,
but decided one day that he would fill out his papers for a mission and see
what happened. It was great to work with him for the day, I hope to see his
success as a missionary, and the blessings that the Lord sends to help the
family of this Elder.
This week we put some pretty high
goals to meet as a Zone, and we all worked really hard to achieve them. we didn’t
quite reach all of them, but we were able to work really hard and it was a good
motivation.
One of the goals was to get the
members to participate, and to go out and do visits with us. It was
frustrating, because we would make arrangements with various members, and when
it came to meeting them at the place and time they weren’t there, and didn’t
answer their phones... so we were a little discouraged at times for that. But,
one success in our efforts paid off, because we had a family home evening with
a family who invited their neighbors over. we played the game Jenga, and them
taught how we need to build the foundations of our families on the rock of Christ
to be able to withstand and overcome the difficulties in Life. it was a good
lesson, we are still waiting back to see if they would like to learn more and
take lessons, but they liked the message a lot and we were able to gain their
respect as missionaries.
We were also able to find some new
people to teach as well! We found a young woman and we boyfriend, Ivon and
Uriel. and two families, one the Tovar Family and, the other the family of a
sister named Letti, He have great hopes for them. None were able to go to
church on Sunday, though, darn it! :)
On Friday we got together as a Zone
to shine shoes in a market. It was the most successful activity of this sort
that I had seen yet, there were a tone of people that wanted their shoes
cleaned, we had four elders shining at a time, and I shined like 5 or 6
people´s shoes, while in past activities I hadn’t shined a single one! I felt
that we got the short end of the stick because both me and my companion both
were shining, and didn’t actually get the opportunity to go and contact the
people, so as everyone walked away with like 40 contacts for the day, we walked
away with 6. I was talking about that with Hna Alonso, one of the sister
missionaries in our ward, and I learned a lesson on charity when she replied, “well,
at least you got to do some service, that´s the most important part´´. And it
is true. I saw that by thinking that way, I was focusing on numbers, and not
people. I need to be careful not to fall into that trap again :)
I was super excited because a member
family, The Robles Family, went to our ward on Sunday! They had gotten offended,
so they had been going to a different ward for a long time, not wanted to go to
their own. We had been visiting them, letting them know that they weren’t
forgotten about, and just being friends with them. Then, they told us and Saturday
that they would come back! The sister said that she recognized that her family couldn’t
progress while going to the other ward, since they want to be sealed in the
temple, and can’t get a recommend for not attending their own ward. So, they
decided to come back. We went to their house on Sunday morning to bring them to
church, and we were super happy!
Now, though, we are a little sad
about Transfers. I am staying the same with my companion (which is awesome!),
but the sisters missionaries in our ward both left! We became good friends with
Hna Alonso and Hna Martinez as we ate with them every day and worked together
in the ward. It is sad to say goodbye. Now we are waiting to see who the new
sisters are that we will be working with :)
So yeah, that is about how my week
went. It was a good one. I hope to be able to get things going here and we are
excited to see what the Lord has in store!
Love you all!
Elder Hayden Redford
P.S. I finally got my Christmas
packages on Tuesday! Thank you so much! I loved the calendar, especially!
And the cakes were gifts for valentine’s
day, the chocolate from the Flores family, and the cheesecake from the sister missionaries
:)
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