Transfers, transfers, transfers! New mission president! Everything is changing!
Actually, my companion and I are both staying here for this transfer. In fact, we're the only missionaries in the entire city right now. Everyone in our zone, including our zone leaders, was transferred except for a sister and one other elder. We're going to meet all the new folks at the bus station this afternoon. I hope I get some mail!
I'm excited about this transfer. I am blessed (I really mean that) to have an obedient, hardworking companion, and even though we have had plenty of difficulties in this area, we're in a good place. We know the area now, which helps. And all the basics are taken care of here: we have a good house, the members are very nice, the ward leadership is the strongest I've seen on my whole mission, the chapel is nice, and we don't have to spend a lot of money on buses or anything.
We still don't have much of a teaching pool, though. Our best investigator, Fernanda, is perdida (lost) now. We went to visit her and she told us that she wanted to stop "studying" with us for now. People just don't get it. Anyway, my tender little heart was broken again. Hopefully one day she comes around someday.
Since we lost all of our progressing investigators (although they were more like "progressing" investigators), my companion and I pretty much started over this week. We're launching a concentrated attack on the less active members of the ward, of which there are A LOT. We got a list from the bishop of all the members of the ward, with the active members highlighted. We created a little numbering system for all the people we planned on visiting and located them on the big city map that is hung up on our wall. We stuck little pins into the map to plan our visits. We turned our study room into WAR ROOM! We have been going to all the people's houses, with mixed results. Most people have moved or weren't at home, a lot of them were too ashamed to come talk to us, and some of them were genuinely cool people who just stopped going to church for one reason or another. Now we're going to try to reactivate them and teach their nonmember siblings and relatives and neighbors and the whole world!!
That's pretty much all that's going on. I'm going a little bit crazy because of our lack of success and all that, but I'm all like wutevs about it. We're working hard and I'm learning a lot and growing up and being an adult and speaking Portuguese! I love you guys! The Church is true!
Abraço,
Elder Bwoggins
P.S. Have there been any marriages or deaths or births or crazy happenings back home? Or abroad, I guess? Just curious.
Actually, my companion and I are both staying here for this transfer. In fact, we're the only missionaries in the entire city right now. Everyone in our zone, including our zone leaders, was transferred except for a sister and one other elder. We're going to meet all the new folks at the bus station this afternoon. I hope I get some mail!
I'm excited about this transfer. I am blessed (I really mean that) to have an obedient, hardworking companion, and even though we have had plenty of difficulties in this area, we're in a good place. We know the area now, which helps. And all the basics are taken care of here: we have a good house, the members are very nice, the ward leadership is the strongest I've seen on my whole mission, the chapel is nice, and we don't have to spend a lot of money on buses or anything.
We still don't have much of a teaching pool, though. Our best investigator, Fernanda, is perdida (lost) now. We went to visit her and she told us that she wanted to stop "studying" with us for now. People just don't get it. Anyway, my tender little heart was broken again. Hopefully one day she comes around someday.
Since we lost all of our progressing investigators (although they were more like "progressing" investigators), my companion and I pretty much started over this week. We're launching a concentrated attack on the less active members of the ward, of which there are A LOT. We got a list from the bishop of all the members of the ward, with the active members highlighted. We created a little numbering system for all the people we planned on visiting and located them on the big city map that is hung up on our wall. We stuck little pins into the map to plan our visits. We turned our study room into WAR ROOM! We have been going to all the people's houses, with mixed results. Most people have moved or weren't at home, a lot of them were too ashamed to come talk to us, and some of them were genuinely cool people who just stopped going to church for one reason or another. Now we're going to try to reactivate them and teach their nonmember siblings and relatives and neighbors and the whole world!!
That's pretty much all that's going on. I'm going a little bit crazy because of our lack of success and all that, but I'm all like wutevs about it. We're working hard and I'm learning a lot and growing up and being an adult and speaking Portuguese! I love you guys! The Church is true!
Abraço,
Elder Bwoggins
P.S. Have there been any marriages or deaths or births or crazy happenings back home? Or abroad, I guess? Just curious.
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