So remember when I said I would write more last week? Well I’ll be honest I didn’t write anything
this week. It was one crazy week here in the district. But some good things as
well happened this week. So like I said we have these two areas here in Santa Marta
and Florida. And my comp before hasn’t really worked in the Florida. So I had
divisions with one missionary that was in that area sometime ago. He is a
member of my district and he showed me some people that he taught as well as
some members. It should really help us with working in that area. We went and
seen one kid named Axel who is pretty much a missionary. He is 16 years old and when we went to talk
to him he had 5 references to meet with us. But that’s not all… this kid brings
his friends to activities, to church on Sunday, and even seminary! We are going
to see what we can do this week with that kid to help his friends come in the
church. In that area a well we have a member who is this very sweet old lady.
She calls all the elders her kids. And she really does take care of them for
example, She always gives us something to eat, she always asks how we are
doing, she is pretty much our mom in that area.
So our other area here has a bunch of investigators. We have the
most progressing right now in the district, which is really good. We are
helping the people little by little with everything that they need. We are
going to be baptizing here soon in the coming weeks.
Not going to lie this last week was kind of hard. We couldn’t get
into any house we couldn’t teach anyone it seemed like. I’ll give you and
example, we went into a house where we have an investigator and he was like
yeah come in and I’ll be right there. Well 30 seconds after he comes back and
says hey guys can you come back a different day? I was not to happy. To be 100% I was lacking
motivation this week. It was really hard not be like hey lets do this or let’s
do that lets go visit this person. But to be honest I didn’t know what to do.
It was really hard. The past couple of days I have been really praying and
really asking for help to be a better missionary and a better leader. Now I’m
not saying I think I’m a terrible missionary I just now that I can improve to
be better. But something helped me the other day. The new missionary that is in
my district told me, hey man you are a great leader and that I’m doing a good
job. He told me I’m really helping him here in the mission. So funny story
about this elder. I can pick what days I want to do divisions and I told this
elder that he was going to leader his area with my comp to see how he does. Now
remember the kid has 2 weeks here in the mission so he was really scared. But
he told me that it helped him get more confidence and understand his area
better. So I know it may seem mean that I did that but hey it had it’s meaning
to help the elder in my district
So we went to the temple the other day as a zone. It was a good day
to be honest. I was able to enjoy my time there and my mind wasn’t worried
about anything. It was a nice relaxing time. But man was the temple busy after
we came out. There as someone getting married, there came in a group of 30
people that entered the temple as we left. And we ran into an ex missionary
there. This elder is from Guatemala and was probably the most famous here in the
mission the reason why is he baptized 54 people. Crazy right? And he is my grandpa in the mission. The
reason why is he trained my trainer. So that means he’s my grandpa.
We had two days back to back where we had to get up early. One was
for the temple and the other was for a multi zone conference. This multi zone
was really good to be honest. Well to be honest it felt the same when the aps
talked. I don’t like how the mission is focused on numbers. They focus too
much on reaching a goal and not helping others. That’s why the retention of the
new members is down because people just baptize numbers. Something that was
really good was the talk from Sister Shumway. She talked about how we can help
the people with the doctrine of the church. Then she taught the invitation for
that person. I thought that was really good. Afterwards we got to hear from President
Shumway. And when a new president comes into the mission he changes something’s
around right… Now I thought that we would have to wait to see some changes but fetch
he changed everything right away. Well not everything but a lot of stuff. For
example before we had comp study for half an hour now he changed that to be an
hour. As well we have a time now to study Spanish and for the Latino missionaries
to speak English. A lot of missionaries were like what the fetch. But to be
100% honest I like having an hour to have a comp study. It will help us be
better prepared for our investigators.
So that was pretty much my week here in Santa Marta and Florida. We
are working hard and helping people. My comp is really new. I’m his second comp
that he has had in the mission. He is from Chile and he’s really old, he is 25
years old. Kind of weird being in charge of a 25 year old hahah but its good he
is a good guy. But that was our week. I’m not going to say I’ll try and write
more next week because it might not happen but ill do my best. Thanks for all
the love and support you have for me here in Guatemala. Thanks for all the
prayers as well. Talk to you all next week!
Love you
Elder Nelson
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| Jordan with his district at the temple |
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| Jordan with his zone at the temple |
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