Monday, May 28, 2018

Mon., 5/28/2018 (Luque)

Wow! Well I feel like I fell asleep and woke up and it's P-day again! As they say, whitewashes are the fastest changes! Well I don't have too much time so let's get down to business!

I'm in Luque (pronounced looooo-kay) so the pictures don't work. Sorry.

Tuesday through Thursday we just put in work as usual. Friday we had a meeting with the Zone, and boy was it a big one. My whole mission, I feel like a common perception is if you want new investigators, you should go contact (go up to random houses and clap outside and talk to random people you don't know), and if you try to visit members and get references of who to visit, that's not as effective. Well the numbers and experience of missionaries says otherwise. So basically the new focus of the mission is to work with the members, and thus getting more work done. Well don't worry, that's what we plan on doing! We just got a new Ward Mission Leader, who has helped a lot! The other Elders had a baptism of a kid named Angel on Saturday which was nice! After the baptism we had an activity playing soccer, and got a toooooon of less active young men to come and play! Sadly none of them came to church, but we gotta start somewhere!

Church was great as usual, we did show up an hour late because the member that said he could give our elderly investigator Tomas a ride had to go somewhere else.  Apparently a chapel somewhere caught on fire? not sure what happened there... so we had to help him get there on foot, but he liked it so no big deal. We taught Gospel Principles but we also got notified to give talks in Sacrament Meeting, so Elder Aguilar had to prep one and I taught most of the lesson. We got to Sacrament Meeting and Elder Aguilar never had to give his talk because I guess the person he was going to fill in for showed up or something, but I ended up giving a talk on the blessings of the church and temples, and our need to be a missionaries using the rough statistics of how many people are in the world, how many members of Christ's church are in the world and how many missionaries are in the world. It's impossible for just the missionaries to do it all! The members should all be looking to share the gospel also! As David O McKay taught, Every member a missionary! That means you and me! So go out this week and find someone to share the gospel with! Or at least shine your light and hold a door open for someone in need!

I hope y'all have a good week! Thanks for the prayers and email, it means a lot!

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