Hello family!!
Another week gone by! Things are indeed passing real quick. I've
already got 17 months out here... Boy have I learned a lot but boy I would love
a whole lot more time!
This week went well! We got a couple new investigators and a
couple new groups of people to teach this week! Here in the mission there is
like a funnel effect we have been taught. If you want 1 baptism, you should
have 3 with a baptismal date. If you want 3 with a baptismal date, you should
have 9 attending church. If you want 9 attending church, you should have 27 new
investigators each week. And if you want 27 new investigators each week, just
think about how many you gotta contact. Now I know that this funnel affect
isn't solid 100% correct, but many are called and few are chosen. Hopefully
when we teach and contact lots of people we can quickly find those who will
commit and progress.
The R.M.'s wife is doing great. She knows the Book of
Mormon is true, she is repenting, we found that she has an old friend from when
she was in the university that goes to our ward(!!!), and yeah, she is doing
real well. We just gotta figure out how to help her since she works on Sundays.
So pray that we can help her get baptized! Because she is super excited and
recognizes the difference she now has in her life! She's golden. :)
Any more info. about the "really big cardboard boxes"
you mentioned last week?
Well, we actually didn't get to do it this week, but this next
week we should be doing it. We are preparing a presentation to give in the open
mall about the relation between the Book of Mormon and the Bible. The big
cardboard Boxes are the books we are finishing up now! When we get that
scheduled I will send more your way. It is taking longer than we first thought
to get it all planned out.
Do you have weekly service hours that you are required to
complete? AND/OR what types of service do you do and how often?
Normally we try to find service within the ward, but it isn't a
big thing we do. But recently we have been having big community projects of
Piura City. Like Saturday we had a massive Community Service Day of lots of
local organizations, and we had 5 missionary Zones participating! We were just
cleaning the streets of all the garbage there is. The big projects are becoming
more common, but weekly service hours required isn't a thing in this mission.
What is the coolest thing you've seen in the area you're in now?
hmm... Oh!! Like last week (I cant believe I forgot to tell you
about this last week!!) we were walking back to our apartment for language
study after lunch and we find a Tree planted in the middle of the dirt road.
Like in the little intersection. And the tree was loaded with like plastic
kitchen supplies (tupperware I think it is called.... right? haha). Here for
Carnivales another tradition is that. Then late that night they had like
fireworks and music and a big party then they dance and chop down the tree and
like a piñata they all run in to collect the tupperware treasures! haha we
didn't get to see the real event, but we got to see all the setup (I will send
pictures soon) So that was pretty cool.
This week I felt really good in how some of our contacting went
through. I know that the Holy Ghost reveals to us what we need to know when we
sincerely search and ask for his direction.
The pictures today are some of many from P Day today!! We went
to the waterfalls of Morropon!! It is like 1 hour and a half from Piura, like
Tambo Grande but even deeper into the mountains! Really awesome over there!!
The church is true!! Love you all!! And Way to go Ensley with
her baptism!!!! That will be the key moment of your life and Heavenly Father
will bless you. :)
con amor,
Elder Russell
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