SACRAMENT NUMBERS ARE CLIMBING AND...WE'RE GONNA GET TO LEAVE THE MISSION!!!!
March 1, 2017
Dear Family,
Neither I nor my comp had transfers so everything's normal. Actually, in the other companionship, the Argentine left and, to be honest, it was a bit of a relief. I can usually get along with anyone just fine but he was just really rude at times (also nice at other times) and just constantly negative. We have a new elder in the house, Elder Hellbusch, so now we're 4 Americans. It's pretty fun but I hope our Spanish doesn't slip, haha...
...The mission work is going well. We actually had 60 people in Sacrament meeting this last week (5 weeks ago it was 40!) and we were missing people that usually come, so we're really hopeful for saving the chapel (but more importantly getting a new one!!) We've been teaching a lot of children recently. We have 3 that we want to have a baptismal date with the next time we can visit them and 2 others that we're teaching that are going to be 8 when they're baptized. They have a less active parent so they'd technically be ward baptisms, but they don't really get much help from the ward so missionaries teach them.
It's kinda hard to feel like you're accomplishing enough because there's also more you can do... but I'm just working and trying to improve.
That's REALLY cool that Ari is making some dope swag goals! One thing I'd change about Utah is that there'd be more missionaries because there's really not any, and they're such a help for less actives! But the wards there are also really supportive.
Something interesting that has happened is that we had a big ol' conference with all the missionaries in the world and they said that we should worry less about less actives. They don't even count reactivations now!!! We still do some work because the ward doesn't do much but we're trying to get them to come with us to maybe do a hand off. There was a woman a couple weeks ago that came back to church and got a calling so, technically, she's a reactivation, so that was cool.
Also, today for p-day we had a water balloon fight and it was a blast! It was nice because it's super hot here still and we never get to do water-related things. We even got a hose and a small fire house out. It got crazy! The zone leaders are trying to raise the enthusiasm in the zone and with the missionaries.
Oh yeah! and Carlos and Susan (his wife) also did something really cool! They went to the airport to say goodbye to a missionary leaving and asked President personally if they could take us out of the mission to do an activity or something one P-day. Of course it's kinda a no, and president said that it's more of an area thing and there's actually 1/3 of the presidency that are with us. BUT he said we could go to the temple with them and then perhaps visit a place or do whatever on the way back!!! Wooo hooo!!!! WE'RE GONNA GET TO LEAVE THE MISSION!!!!
That's about all for this week,
Love you all. Bye!!
-Elder Sierra
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