Morropon Round 2

Hello my lovely family!!

Wow!! It sounds like a real eventful week!! Congrats Dad to the new calling!! Being Bishop is such a key role in the church and I am real excited for you!! From the sounds of it, it can be a tiring deal but your relationship with our Lord and Savior will grow miraculously I am certain!

Today we went to Morropon again, the photos have been sent your way.

This week went well! We are working on a couple new people. We found someone who used to be the missionaries' pensionista several years ago and it sounds like she was at the point of getting baptized but it did fall through. So we are working on her testimony of the Book of Mormon and hopefully we can get her feeling prepared to get baptized!

As for new callings this week, V actually just got called as the Ward Young Women's Secretary! We haven't talked to her about how she feels yet about the new calling, but it will be such a great thing for her! And right now with all the youth getting ready for Trujillo dedication, she has been thrown in at a bit of a busy time! But she will be awesome! Mom, you'll have to send me a note with all your Young Women tips to pass along to her! :)

V also helped us with visits yesterday and is TOP CLASS - seriously his testimony of the Book of Mormon is strong! So we got an awesome new power source there.

to answer some question/comments....

About the flyers you were preparing to hang up last week... any success with that?

I will send you a picture. But we put our information on flyers in what is like a lower class style of a Hospital. There is one like 2 blocks from our apartment so we put the direction to the chapel and our phone number for those people who are looking for help facing difficulties. So far we haven't gotten a call, but we will see what the future brings!

What are some good things you've learned about your companion?

I have learned a lot. But with him we have learned how to laugh and keep working. I think we have both gotten stressed and we can both be a little stubborn, but we have learned together how to get over the stumbling blocks that are constantly coming and just keep doing all you can! We have a million inside jokes now. When I get home, you'll have to ask me about them, the new one is "the Gorillas and the Pirates". THAT is a fun story for when I get home. :)

The best thing about the past week?

Seeing the fruits of working with the members. We are now working to have a quality relationship with EVERY active family in our area. AND then create Missionary Goals with every active family. We have now taught 12 members and helped them get to work finding families. And they are awesome! The members are power houses just waiting for the invitation!! The vision I am starting to see is that every member/family has their family referral who they help us with teaching, fellowshipping, and, in the end, baptizing. so that has been really awesome!!

Another best thing... I will be finishing Jesus the Christ this week!!!! That book is the best book EVER. Well.... other than the Book of Mormon and such, but I have learned loads from that book.

The hardest thing about the past week?

Hmm.... I don't know really! Sometimes members cancel to accompany us last minute, or sometimes investigators end up not wanting anything to do with us, and we get tired, but that's all just temporary stuff!!! We keep progressing and we are finding those around us who need this gospel!

Well this week we are gonna work some miracles!! I was reading about when the First Apostles received the Holy Ghost and the difference you see in the class of men they were. Well, this week I plan to find and magnify that power and this week we are going to work hard!

I hope you all have a great week!! Keep praying!! Read the Book of Mormon DAILY!! The Church is True!! :)

Love you all,

Elder Russell