Monday, January 30, 2012

I Am Doing Great!




I am doing great! I love my area. It´s a little tougher but I wouldn´t have it any other way. Our baptism fell through. What happened is this. She is 20 years old, she still lives with her family and her family is very Catholic. When her dad found out about the baptism, he wasn´t happy at all. He told that if she was to get baptized she would have to move out and forget that she ever had parents. So she didn´t get baptized. We are going to hold off on that. The good part is that if she can get through, she will become a really strong member in the church. That´s a problem here, people get baptized, but they don´t have a strong testimony. So when problems come up they stop coming to church. We have seen that a lot in our area.
With a new month coming up though, we are excited to see what is going to happen. I pray that I will still be here. But I really don´t know. This next week we will find out the transfers. I may be going or staying. It´s weird to think I have only three transfers left and then I´m on my way home. I feel like I just started and that I still have a lot to learn.
I know that I said that I don´t want to talk about home, but I do have a question about that. Are you coming to get me or am I going to be coming home alone? The Secretaries will be asking me that here soon. I need an answer if you can by this next week. Everything is good with my comp. He is helping me a lot become a strong teacher in the lessons. I guess the best way to explain it is to stay focused and make sure we get things done.
The branch keeps going. Sometimes I don´t know how sometimes, but it does. We have such few members sometimes. Last Sunday there wasn´t any priesthood holders, except for me, my comp, and the branch pres. My comp was playing the piano, I broke the bread. Then he came over to help me bless it, then we passed the sacrament to everyone, me and him. Never had that happen before. You learn a lot of things on the mission. I think if that happened to me when I started I would have freaked out. But now I´m the experienced, all knowing, 20 months missionary. I know it all. That´s me trying to be funny if you couldn´t pick up on that. I´m going to be ready though to work in church organization when I get back though. I have studied that so much to make sure we are doing things right. I love my area.
I´m studying as much as I can and trying to always become a better missionary. Time is coming down and it seems more real everyday.

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