57: Presidente Nelson, Te Sostengo

What a week! Semana santa, conference, and an extra zone conference. Where to start!

This last tuesday, after having our zone conference the week before, Presidente Chase invited our zone and the other zone with us to the other city zone conference to receive more instruction. When we heard that, we were a little confused, but we all went ready to listen. He had received results from a worldwide missionary survey we took that pointed out lots of things, but most of all that our focus has not been on BAPTISM. He talked about how missionary work was organized to BAPTIZE, it has many other side affects, but our most important purpose is getting people to perform that ordinance. He requested that in our weekly email, we write him if that is our number one reason to be here in the mission. This is what I wrote this morning:

Estamos aquí para bautizar, yo lo sé. No hay ninguna duda acerca de eso. No he tenido mucho éxito personalmente con ese indicador en la misión, pero yo sé con lo que he hecho en la misión, mi enfoque siempre ha sido bautizar. 

We finished SEMANA SANTA. I attached the document that explains all we did. We didnt quite get to the goal, but given as our investigators and more than 50% (no joke) of our area left, we did a lot of door knocking. Los Prados now has a lot of new investigators! Given that, no investigator updates.

And CONFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!

Best ever! You should have seen us every time announcements were made. We went crazy! ESPECIALLY for the temple in Nicaragua, they have been waiting for a temple for so long, they all come to Tegucigalpa to do their temple work, which is a long and great sacrifice. What a blessing all of these announcements and changes, this truly is the church of the Lord, and is progressing rapidly to prepare for the coming of the Lord.

Favorite Talks:

Elder Bednar: all about meekness, more submissive, more like the Savior

President Nelson: revelation, I need that! A lot of that! All the time! And so do you!

Elder Gong: his testimony might have been what impressed me most of all. His will to dedicate everything he has to the Lord, to him family, his quorum, and the spreading of this gospel struck me. 

What an incredible example for me and for every acceptor of this gospel. And now, nothing is more important than spreading this gospel to CADA RINCÓN DE LA TIERRA. What a blessing it is to consecrate this time of my life towards that, and continue the work even after I take off my name badge.

Feliz semana!

1. Fresa

2. Knock doors so hard (just kidding this comes from cleaning our bathroom so hard on Pday, but we did knock a considerable amount of doors)

3-4. Los gringos de la zona Villa Olympica, eating taqueritos until their tongues are red and canned cinnamon rolls until their stomachs hurt