Wow this has been an eventful week. So much stuffed just jam
packed into 7 days. First off, I have a new companion, Elder Class, straight
from the Mexico MTC. He is from San Jose, California and he is 20 or so. I told
him to guess how old I was and he said hmm like 20 or so. Ha he thought it
was funny that Im still 18! He is an awesome missionary, and very
prepared. His Spanish is pretty good too. Best I've seen straight out of the
MTC. Ha oh yeah and he loves talking about his girlfriend. So funny.
I really have a testimony of how well the Lord knows us and
loves us because of this past week. I was pretty nervous the first few days to
be a trainer. I was just amazed and in shock about how I was supposed to lead
an area and a new missionary when I have only been out a few longer than he
has. It was pretty rough. I prayed so much for help and a sense of peace. It
was one of the hardest times of my mission yet. I was exercising a lot of faith
and put full trust in God, but I felt pretty inadequate for what was coming.
But wow things have been amazing this past week. Heavenly Father blessed me so
much with an awesome new companion. Elder Class has been so easy to teach and
train. He came so prepared and ready to work. He is already a full contributing
factor to our companionship. We have been working great together and are making
a lot of progress. We really have been working hard and praying a lot for some
prepared investigators. It has been fun.
I am back to 2 hours of mandatory companionship study again
being a trainer. Its the best to look back over the 12 week training program
and study all the fundamentals again. We have been doing tons of role plays and
good studies. Its so fun being a trainer cause I can really control the
obedience and diligence we put in. I have set the standard and my
companion is so ready to follow it. We have been blessed for our obedience this
past week with some cool new investigators. We found about 6 new investigators
this past week. Some of some pretty good potential. The hardest thing is still
peoples' schedules. We have so many investigators we can't see very often
because of random work schedules. But we have a few solid investigators we are
hoping to set on baptismal date this next week.
On Friday we tried to see Ed---, one of our investigators,
but he wasn't there. So we walked a few feet off and I was writing some notes
in my planner and this guy came around the corner and he said "Hey, you
are the Elders, I mean missionaries, right?" Um yes we are, have you
talked to missionaries before? He said that he had a few years back. His name
was Da--. Pretty crazy guy. Said he talked to missionaries before but doesn't
believe in organized religion. He is straight from the Bronx and a little
psycho. He has read the whole Book of Mormon but doesn't want to become Mormon.
Said he wants to have us over again. So we are seeing him this next week and
going to see if we can get him to change his life around.
Things are so warm here too. Like 50 degrees. Hasn't been
this warm since October. So nice to go work without a huge coat on. It is
amazing.
We had our biggest transfer conference ever this past week.
Over 60% of the mission got switched around. So everything is pretty different.
They had to make a new zone this past transfer as well because of how big we
are getting. We have 251 missionaries. I love this mission.
Love
Elder Sumsion
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