Hey there everybody!
This past week we had a wicked rainstorm for 2 days! We got soaked to the bone!!! But now it is super hot again and not the funnest to walk up the gigantic hills in a suit, but that´s just life! You just have to walk up some big hills and stairs in a suit every now and then, right?
A lot of the things in the mission have been changing, and Presidente Martinez has challenged us in our zone to not proselyte knocking doors at all this month! The focus in the mission is that we can find a way to work more effectively with the members so that the members can have the spirit of missionary work, so that we can find ways to baptize more people and to help the converts stay active until the end! We are also trying to work more with less active members to help the return to the church. It is going to work out really well if it works as well as it sounds! But the past week turned out to be quite difficult for Elder Hughes and I. The members are great here, but only a few are really excited to do missionary work or at least invite friends to hear the message that we have. So we have a lot to face, but we will find a way to spark the interest of all the members. By small and simple things, great things come to past.
We have been gaining a lot of confidence with the Bishop these days, and he is starting to take more of his responsibilty as a bishop, which is fantastic! He even wants to spend an entire day with us in a portion of our sector called tumbes, which is like a40 min bus ride from the city to a small fishing town. So we´ll see how that goes for us! It´s awesome that he wants to leave with us to go visit people.
Aside from that, most of our appointments that we had with people this week have just decided to not happen. Almost every person we had planned to visit for the entire week wasn´t home or they couldn´t recieve us in that moment. And usually when the people aren´t home, we go to our back up plan and this week they decided not to be home either. :P It was an exciting week, especially since our last resort is usually knocking doors to find people, but we can´t do that this month. So we tried talking with as many people as we could in the street, but the streets in chile die when it rains.... Haha... so it was a rough week. We are waiting on a list of all the members for a better back up plan so that we can be able to strengthen the ward and such.
Although we have faced a lot of hardships this week, I was studying the war chapters in Alma, and I found a scripture that really motivated me regardless of the circumstances. Alma 58:37 It seemed like the perfect scripture for this difficult week, and I was able to remember to have a good attitude, a big smile and to trust in God that he will always help us! Even though some people don´t like a lot of the Book of Mormón because there are a lot of war chapters, there are still lots of principles to learn and apply in our lives! I love the Book of Mormón! Anyways, the good news is is that this next weekend (the 17th) it is Elder Hughes´s birthday and we are going to have 2 baptizms! Woot! He turns 20 years old and we are going to celebrate it with some baptizms!
I love you all so much and I hope you are all doing well! Take care! Until next week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Garrett
(Elder Hughes got caught in a huge crowd of Evangelicos..... so I snapped a picture! It´s like "Where´s Waldo... but Where´s the Gringo!)
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