Well
I had a nice, fulfilling week. As a companionship, we completed our
weekly goals and passed the standard of excellence for the mission
having 10 with baptismal date, 8 in church, 15 lessons with members and 9
others, and finding 15 new investigators. I would call it successful
thanks to the HARD work we put in. One thing that helped us was the ward
missionaries. The Ward mission leader here doesn`t really do or know
how to do his calling. So we just come up with the ideas and then he
supports it. At the beginning of the week, I organized the ward
missionaries. They weren`t really doing anything. So we met together and
I explained their purpose in the work of Salvation and made a schedule,
having them companion at least 1 day of the week so we could have a
member with us all the time. Besides, most of them are young people and
they`re on vacation now (summer vacation is in November-Feb).
We worked hard all week so that I didn`t have to
work as hard on my birthday (not that I didn`t want to). We were jammed
packed with appointments Saturday,
but they were appointments to come and eat and visit with some
families. We were sooooo full that day. We ate 3 birthday cakes,
breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, and second dinner with 5 different
families. My companion`s sick and has been since Saturday
because of all the food and he was inflated. And that`s basically how I
spend my birthday....eating. The other elders live with the last family
that invited us to second dinner. That had a little surprise waiting
for me. It tradition in Bolivia to make a cake out of the birthday boy
throwing eggs and flour at him. And that`s exactly what they did to
me... It was nasty cleaning up. I sent some pictures.
Another part of my ``birthday´´ is what we did
yesterday. We went to chapari (it`s a jungle) and had fun there, I also
will send pictures. It`s funny because for my ``birthday´´ last year, we
went to the same place! But that`s the reason that I didn`t write
yesterday.
Besides all the fun and hard work that went on this
week, I also learned more about the Holy Ghost. In Incachaka (chapari),
they were many butterflies that you couldn`t see at first because they
blended in well with the environment. As you stepped by them, 10s of
them would scatter everywhere. Some of them would even land on me. But
with one little movement, it would fly off. The Holy Ghost is the same.
It is so delicate that one wrong move and it`ll get offended and go
away. I also recognized something else cool. Sometimes while I`m
teaching, I noticed I say things that I didn`t know before and teach
myself. ``I said what!?´´ That goes in line with Romans 2:21
``Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself?´´This is true, when the Holy Ghost is there, both are edified.
-Elder Walker
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