May 12, 2014
Transfers!!!
Just kidding, still in Modelia.
The mission is going good, I officially have 6 months away
from home now! It definitely doesn't feel like it though.
We don't have many investigators right now, but we have a
ton of less actives in the ward, so we have been working a lot with them, and
we are getting some progress! Three of them came to church for the second time
yesterday, so we are close to leaving them and counting them as rescued. We are
working hard to fulfill the promise of Elder Grow, one of the Area presidency,
when he told us that if we want to baptize more, we need to rescue more!
However, we haven't given up on trying to bring more people
to the gospel. I made cupcakes last week (manly, I know), partially to
celebrate my 6 months, and partially to give to the neighbors to our apartment!
They had surprised us the week before with some sandwiches, so we surprised
them with cupcakes, a Liahona, our number, and an offer to do whatever service
they need. Hopefully they will help us help them out!
So the past couple days have been exciting! On Saturday,
we received a call that we had to go to the airport and pick up a future
missionary later that day. Luckily, our plans for that time fell, so we didn't
have to cancel anything. And I am very grateful for the missionary attire we
use; it was easy to spot a young man with a white shirt, suit and tie! So we
brought him back to Modelia, and went on some visits with him (Awesome because
every lesson is with a man and member present!). He is a (future) missionary
from the Florencia, (a zone where north Americans can't go because of the
terrorist activity), and they don't have a stake president there, so he had to
be set apart by president Lozano. So he stayed the night with us, and Sunday too.
However, we found out at like 7 that he wasn't going to be set apart until 8:30,
and that we had to go all the way to the mission house to do it! So we got
there at 8:30, and the president asked if we were hungry (we hadn't eaten
dinner), so he and Hermana Lozano fed us first, and Carlos went to get his last
interview and get set apart in another room. Meanwhile, Elder Alcántara and I
got to do our planning in the mission house (the which has an environment
comparable to the temple haha), and we found out that after we had to go to the
mission office, so we drove there, picked up a few things for the new elder,
and finally headed home, getting there after 10:30. But it was a fun day!
It has also rained a lot this past week. Yesterday, we got stranded in a members house because it was pouring outside, and we didn't have umbrellas with us. But, I did get to skype my family then! That was super cool to be able to talk with my Mom, Dad, and a little with Aaron!
We slept a ton this p-day, because we had to wake up at 4:30 to
get the new elder to the airport. Then, at about 1:30 today, we got a call from
the zone leaders asking us to go back to the airport to pick up another
missionary! So we went there again (we are close, only like 15 minutes away),
and are now with Elder Vasquez, a zone leader from Florencia. We also went to
play ping pong, and Elder Alcántara completely destroyed us both haha.
Well that has been my week. Talk to you next Monday!
Love,
Elder Toombs
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