November 21, 2011

I like my new area and my new companion. We ride bikes everywhere. So, I`m always way tired when we get back home. We have a brand new chapel that was just built a few months ago. The ward is pretty small, though. Not many showed up this sunday. We had one investigator named Angel go to church yesterday. He`s really surprising me. When we first taught him he didn`t seem that interested. He`s a pretty care free guy. But he`s really progressed a lot. There seems to be a little bit of a lack of enthusiasm in this ward. I hope to change that before I leave this ward. The ward mission leader is great though. He just recently reactivated was sealed in the temple with his family after leaving the church for many years and now he wants to give all he`s got to help build up the kingdom of God.

My companion is from a city in the middle of the jungle in Peru and he`s great. He`s only been a member for about 2 years. So, he has a very sincere testimony and is really great a expressing his feelings for the gospel with people.

I have to admit I was kind of frustrated the whole week because I couldn`t figure out what would be my approach to the work in this new area and because I didn`t even know where we were half the time. However, I felt great peace on sunday as I sat in Sacrament meeting. I still don`t know exactly how I`m going to lift and encourage this ward, but I`m not quite as worried about it now as I was before.

It felt really weird to do divisions with the zone leaders in my old area on Tuesday, even though we didn`t visit that many people I knew when I was there. It was cool to find out that a couple of people that I had found and taught were later baptized after I left the area. Although, it was sad to find out that the majority of the people I baptized while I was there have gone inactive now.

How are the kids doing in school? Has Austin gotten in a wreck yet? Just kiding.

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