Wednesday, May 9, 2012

4-30-12

well this was quite an exhausting week! So me and my companion, Elder Quadros, got to our new area and found that we had nothing to start off with. Apperently the elders that were in this area before us didnt work, and insulted some of the women in the ward, so they all started giving money for lunch instead of making lunch. So we definitely had some work to do. Last monday night we got a call from the bishop inviting us to a pizza place down the street for a welcoming party. When we got there it was bishop, the first counselor, relief society president, and a few other leaders from the ward, plus free pizza and coca cola, so it was a pretty awesome welcoming. the bishop basically told us how the mission work in this area has always been good, but the last few missionaries that passed through kinda destroyed the ward confidence, but he seems pretty excited to have us. He assigned a guy thats getting ready to serve a mission to go out with us the first few days to meet the members and familarize ourselves with the area, which was super helpful. The first day of work we had here was spent cleaning the house, and moving in beds and stuff like that, it literally took us from 2 in the afternoon, until 10:30 at night to clean, it was rediculous how dirty this house was, but its all clean now. The next few days were spent getting to know members, and trying to get a grip on our area. Most of our lunches this week were money, which was actually just fine with me because my new area is a little richer, so we have a huge walmart-type market, and best of all.... a Subway! i had subway four days in a row last week! i was in heaven haha. We were able to find a few good people this week, we met a 16 year old guy who seems pretty solid, and he came to church which is good, the only problem is that he smokes, so we're working on that. We found out that the ward has like 3 guys that have been coming to church for like 3 months, but the missionaries didnt want to work with them for some reason, so those should be pretty easy baptisms. so lots of good stuff goin on in this area. Bishop had me and my companion each give a 10 minute talk on sunday about ourselves, and what we plan to do, so basically stuff to gain the confidence of the ward again, which i think is working. after sacrament meeting all the members came up and introduced themselves and stuff. so it looks like things are starting to turnaround. should be a good transfer!

1 comment:

  1. Pela primeira vez um missionário externando o que sente sobre a relação membro /elders...muito massa!!!

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