I
feel like every single week on the mission passes by faster and faster.
This month in generally has gone by flying! Elder Iglesias and I have
worked super hard this change to try to help the zone reach its goals.
We didn't quite reach our goal this month but we still had a decent
results. We finished up with 11 baptisms. We were going to have a couple
more but some of them disappeared out of nowhere, others moved or lived
in another zone, and others baptismal dates literally fell. Elder
Schaffer, one of our awesome district leaders, called us to let us know
that his investigator Segundo, who I interviewed, wasn't going to be
baptized and so of course I asked him why and he told us that a few
hours earlier he was working and had fallen off a ladder and was in the
hospital! He is a lot better now and is going to be baptized in two weeks
after Peru's presidential elections. He is awesome and he is going to make
an awesome member of the church. But his baptismal date this past week really did "fall" through...
Yesterday
Rafael didn't come to church but were going to try and visit him today
to see what happened. He has been progressing a lot lately and has had a
lot of desires to change and be a better person. His mom is Israelita
and so sometimes she talks to him about her church and he gets a little
confused about some parts of the doctrine. But I know that if he reads
the Book of Mormon he won't have a doubt in the world that this is
Christs church.
Although
Rafael didn't come to church yesterday, we had a very successful day
afterwards. We decided to do divisions yesterday to reach our goals and
find more new investigators. I went with Andre Arana, our new ward
mission leader and one of my best friends here in Retablo (he came home
from his mission in Chile about 1 year ago) and it was awesome! We went
to a part of our area that we hadn't gone to for a while to contact and
look for some referrals and we contacted this family in the street, the
dads name is Andre and the wife is Melissa. We started talking to them
and asked them if we could go by there house some time next week to
share a message with them, but instead of inviting us to come back next
week the told us "Well, were close to our house right now, do you want
to come in and share you are message with us?". So of course we told the
¡Sí! It was easily one of the best lessons I have had here in Retablo! We
taught them about the Restoration and the understood it so well, it was
awesome. They are only home on Sundays but they are going to try and make it
to church this Sunday. We are super excited to be teaching a family now,
it was an answer to a prayer.
Well, that is about all for this week! Que tengan una excelente semana!
Elder Potter
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