MY FAM-A-LEE,
(You have to read it like GA-RO-SHER-REE STORE from the best two
years, otherwise its kind of lame).
Hey everybody, it was so good to hear from two and a half of you this
week, Alex counts as a half becuase technically he did send me a
message but it wasn't from his email.... sorry. It sounds like all is
good up there on the other side of the equador (not sure if that's
spelled right). How's the snow going? I only miss the snow a little
bit. If I could live in it for like 2 or 3 days that would be cool
just because 200 straight days of sun and no clouds kind of gets old.
I really do love my area though and the city that I'm in.
This week was one of those weeks that you can learn from but you don't
really want to re live. I want you all to know that I still have a
testimony of the gospel and I know that I was called to this mission
for a reason. At first I thought it was becuase I had to learn
specific things but now I know its becuase I have to give specific
things. First of all, Halloween. They don't really celebrate Halloween
here in Moquegua. They just barely, like 10 years ago, recognized it
as a holiday. So they pretty much just have cheap costumes and have
parties. They don't even have trick or treating (that would actually
be pretty risky), so it was different. The main thing they do is just
continue worshipping and celebrating the Virgin of whatever (its a
different virgin in every different part of Latin America) and the
saints. Several times this past week we have run into parades where
they carry a statue on there shoulders in a big procession with music
and stuff. It was a little annoying to see the children of Israel over
again, I can only imagine what Moses felt like coming down from
talking with the LORD and seeing that kind of thing. So that was a
little bit different than the usual in the States.
This week was a little harder than usual just becuase almost none of
our appointments actually followed through. You have no idea how
frustrating it is to go to house after house and find out that nobody
is there. At first I was just like, "Ya, we'll just knock doors and do
street contacts until we find the chosen people". So we actually did
talk to some cool people this week, but this pattern continued until
sunday. It was a trying time and I learned a lot of patience and I
learned how to make some changes in the way we plan. The brightest
spot was Sunday. My ward mission leader actually started doing his
calling!!!! He made this forms that all the Preisthood had to fill out
of families that they knew that we could go visit. So this week we are
going to work with a ton of families and get a ton of references. Then
in the afternoon the whole priesthood left with us to knock doors and
contact people. It was soo good to finally work with the members more.
There is definately going to be a better missionary spirit here in
this ward from now on. I really encourage you all to work as hard with
the missionaries as possible. How much better it would be to have the
missionaries teach and the members find so that we don't waste time.
Thank you all for your prayers and for your support. My time has gone,
I'll talk to you all next week.
Elder Child
P.S. Go Utes. Hey Alex fill me in on the Ravens okay?
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