Hey there Everybody!
This past week seemed to pass by so quickly... and I´m quite glad too! i´m getting a little stressed... well, not stressed.... but I don´t know what to call it.... with Elder Santos. I´m just doing my very best to hang in there with him for these last two weeks of the Cambio. It is my final push to just deal with what he does and then perhaps I can have a little release from his sillyness.
We had a lot of intercambios this week... or that´s to say, when we are with a different missionary for a day. I got to work with our Zone Leaders and also the President´s assistants. So that was quite a fun time. This past week we had 7 baptizmal dates lined up, 4 for this month, and 3 for August... but in the end, 3 of our investigators won´t be able to get baptized this month because there are problems with the husband of one of our investigators. A lot of the work that we have been doing this past week has been to strenghten the families of our investigators and of the members here... it seems that there are so many problems with so many families here... but I am glad to see the happiness that this Gospel brings to the lives of others, it truly is amazing!
This past week Elder Santos and I got a lot of responsability dumped on us from the Bishopric, which wasn´t a big deal at all for me! ^_^ We were incharge of a Ward Family Night and we had to plan the lesson and the games and invite a bunch of people. We had about 8 investigators at the activity and their families, but they all showed up before the members. How silly! But the activity worked out really great and our investigators loved it and they were able to know some of the members a little better. We were also given the privelege of giving talks in Sacrament Meeting this past Sunday too. It seems so easy to give talks now, because I am talking about the gospel to people everyday in houses, in the street, in buses, etc. I´m not sure if I could do it in English though! Haha, that would be a little difficult.
We also were also able to do a lot of service projects this week. This has been a very tiring week... and it doesn´t help that my comp snores so loudly at night! It´s hilarious, but I like to sleep too! :P This past week the weather has been so fantastic here in Talcahauano. It has felt like springtime all week... and sometimes it has been so nice that I could go out into the street without a jacket or sweater! ^_^ I´m pretty sure the weather is just making me think that it isn´t winter... and then it will return with a vegence! I´ll just have to wait and see! Yesterday was a Holiday to worship the Virgen Mary... it was quite strange to see people parading in the street following a statue of the Virgen Mary. Very strange if you ask me!
Anyways, we are getting one of our amazing investigators, Matias, prepared for his baptizm next week... but I personally think that he was prepared from the first day that we met him. He is 11 years old and is super humble, super smart, and super mature and spiritual for his age. Everything he reads in the Book of Mormon he remembers, and he can pull out amazing principles out of the stories we leave and he understands every little bit of what we teach him. He is a great example for his less active parents, and I am sure that he will be an amazing missionary one day! I´m so glad that I have been able to teach him.
Well, that is about all that happened this past week. I love you all so much and I hope that you are all doing well! Happy Birthday to my little Sister Karley yesterday, 15 years old! Wow! You are getting old little sis! And Happy Birthday tomorrow to my big sister Britt! 23 years old! Hehe! Well, I love you all so much! I love you too Caralyn! I hope that your grandma is doing okay and that all is well! Until next week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Scott Garrett
This past week seemed to pass by so quickly... and I´m quite glad too! i´m getting a little stressed... well, not stressed.... but I don´t know what to call it.... with Elder Santos. I´m just doing my very best to hang in there with him for these last two weeks of the Cambio. It is my final push to just deal with what he does and then perhaps I can have a little release from his sillyness.
We had a lot of intercambios this week... or that´s to say, when we are with a different missionary for a day. I got to work with our Zone Leaders and also the President´s assistants. So that was quite a fun time. This past week we had 7 baptizmal dates lined up, 4 for this month, and 3 for August... but in the end, 3 of our investigators won´t be able to get baptized this month because there are problems with the husband of one of our investigators. A lot of the work that we have been doing this past week has been to strenghten the families of our investigators and of the members here... it seems that there are so many problems with so many families here... but I am glad to see the happiness that this Gospel brings to the lives of others, it truly is amazing!
This past week Elder Santos and I got a lot of responsability dumped on us from the Bishopric, which wasn´t a big deal at all for me! ^_^ We were incharge of a Ward Family Night and we had to plan the lesson and the games and invite a bunch of people. We had about 8 investigators at the activity and their families, but they all showed up before the members. How silly! But the activity worked out really great and our investigators loved it and they were able to know some of the members a little better. We were also given the privelege of giving talks in Sacrament Meeting this past Sunday too. It seems so easy to give talks now, because I am talking about the gospel to people everyday in houses, in the street, in buses, etc. I´m not sure if I could do it in English though! Haha, that would be a little difficult.
We also were also able to do a lot of service projects this week. This has been a very tiring week... and it doesn´t help that my comp snores so loudly at night! It´s hilarious, but I like to sleep too! :P This past week the weather has been so fantastic here in Talcahauano. It has felt like springtime all week... and sometimes it has been so nice that I could go out into the street without a jacket or sweater! ^_^ I´m pretty sure the weather is just making me think that it isn´t winter... and then it will return with a vegence! I´ll just have to wait and see! Yesterday was a Holiday to worship the Virgen Mary... it was quite strange to see people parading in the street following a statue of the Virgen Mary. Very strange if you ask me!
Anyways, we are getting one of our amazing investigators, Matias, prepared for his baptizm next week... but I personally think that he was prepared from the first day that we met him. He is 11 years old and is super humble, super smart, and super mature and spiritual for his age. Everything he reads in the Book of Mormon he remembers, and he can pull out amazing principles out of the stories we leave and he understands every little bit of what we teach him. He is a great example for his less active parents, and I am sure that he will be an amazing missionary one day! I´m so glad that I have been able to teach him.
Well, that is about all that happened this past week. I love you all so much and I hope that you are all doing well! Happy Birthday to my little Sister Karley yesterday, 15 years old! Wow! You are getting old little sis! And Happy Birthday tomorrow to my big sister Britt! 23 years old! Hehe! Well, I love you all so much! I love you too Caralyn! I hope that your grandma is doing okay and that all is well! Until next week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Scott Garrett
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