Nov 7, 2011

November 7, 2011

Hola, family. So yes i have a new companion. His name is Elder Ruis. He is from texas. But his parents are mexican. So when he was little he learned spanish as his first language and then in the street and school he learned english. So he is perfectly fluently in both languages. He has 10 months in his mission. One month more than me. He is a great elder. We both have about the same amount of time in our mission, So both of us arent really sure what to do exactly all the time and what is the best methods and things. So we both are learning a lot. I am having a lot of good oppurtunitys to be the one chosing what is best to do. My other companions just told me what we were doing and where we were going. But now he is new to the area and doesnt know anybody or what to do, so we both have to work together and figure it all out.

Our recent converts are doing good. Angel and Paola, the young couple, he just found a job and he works from monday to saturday and has sunday off. Which is really really hard to find here. Especially when it is just a normal job. The other woman, lidia, has not found a job but she is progressing more. She was at church on sunday and is active. She is not as strong in the gospel and needs more help than the couple. And the mom of paola is a member, so they have lots of help and support.

Other than that is has been a hard week. So we had lots of investigators that dropped us and dont want anything. So we need to find new investigators. We have been trying to have family home evenings with the members and the idea is that they invite a family they are friends with to the family home evening. But the members dont always do it, so we just have a family home evening with the members. Which is good to strengthen the members but we still dont have any investigators. But we are keeping that up and it is getting better. I try to contact a lot, but that just doesnt work that well. Yesterday we fasted to find a new family to get baptized this month. So we will find one. Some members invited their friends to church yesterday and they came. We have a family home evening with them tonight so we will see what happens with that.

Ben thats awesome you invited friends to go to the activity. Keep doing it, eventually they will come. That happens here a lot. Family have friends they want to invite to church or something and they do it and they dont show up. Everntually a year later they decide to come one time. People just dont think it is important. They dont know their eternal salvation hangs in the balance of it all. And they never will really understand the importance of it all intil after their baptism.

So Otto perez Molina won the elections yesterday. That made me laugh that nathan and brooke named their baby otto. Everytime someone talks about the president now i think of my nephew. So things were crazy these weekend with that going on. I dont really know anything about the canidates, but i know otto used to be the general of the military here. So thats cool. He said that he is going to clean up guatmala and make it a better place. He is going to take the military and get rid of all the gangs and drug dealers. But whatever.

So i found out something kind of annoying but might turn out good in the end today. They are going to hold all of are packages from now untill christmas then give us them all at christmas. They want everyone to have a present for christmas and it will make it a better christmas because we will get them all at once and be like wow. But aunt leann send a package she said last week about the trip and everything. But i guess i will have to wait till christmas to get it. But oh well. Its all good.

I dont know what else to say, not much has happened, so cya have a good week.

Love elder gardner