sand peso!
This week has been a little tough but some really great things happened.
This week we focussed on finding, but we didn't really have much success. We did have a miracle happen Tuesday. We found a guy named Jacinto, whose been inactive for over 20 years. We started working to reactivate him, and we're also working to baptize his mom and 2 kids, Carlos and Flor.
We also had Zone Conference this week too and it was awesome. Hermana Palmer talked about fighting discouragement which is something I've been struggling with these past few weeks. My first transfer we had one investigator my first week and she got baptized, so we spent that whole transfer looking for people, and when last week started we had one family from the transfer before, all the rest of the people we found we've dropped. It's a little tough because I feel like we've done nothing, but Hermana Palmer shared a scripture, Alma 26:13 "Have we not great reason to rejoice?" I'm out here trying to do the Lord's work and I know I have great reason to rejoice.
Yesterday I went on splits with my District Leader to Alvarado because the elders there needed some help (they're opening a new area) and then today we went to the beach. We couldn't swim, but we did take some pictures and I found a sand peso (It's like a sand dollar, but Mexican).
--Elder Thompson
Bits and pieces from family phone calls:
I will get to call home for Christmas! We just have to find an internet cafe that's open!
Most the celebrating here will be on Christmas Eve...we have plans to go visit with a family that night.
My comp has never received a Christmas package (don't think he expected to) so it's a good thing my mom sent doubles of most everything in my package, so we both have stuff to open on Christmas.
I wore a jacket for the first time this week....don't worry, today was super hot again. It never stays cool long.
Last week we had a goal to have 30 connections (not contacts) each day. We made our goal almost every day! Our mission president challenged us to make connections....actually get to know something about people instead of just a hello!
At Zone Conf, my mission president gave us each a Book of Mormon in our native language. Between now and Easter we are supposed to read it and mark God's invitations to us, the promised blessings, a another topic of our choosing...I'm focusing on the atonement.
First time I've worn pday clothes in the field!
two crabs in this pic...can you see them?
that's right....I'm taking a pic with my Lays stax cause why not?
we're friends
Zone Conference
human foosball and lessons on working as a team...
also, the only sport we are allowed to play
the ZONE
Because the new area opening by us is so small and new,
they don't have a building.
The other elders made this sign and posted it on the house
where they were meeting Sunday....pretty much professional.
There are lots of sugar cane fields in our area.
They actually burn them on purpose to get rid of the dead/weeds,
then they go in and harvest the sugar canes.
No comments:
Post a Comment