Hello from La Concepción!
Today was exchanges, and I was sent out here to a small town called La Concepción, in the Masatepe zone. I absolutely love everything I've been hearing about my new area: It's not hot. They've baptized every week so far this month, and we have two baptisms lined up for this week. The house is way fancy. We have someone that cleans the house for us. Someone washes our clothes for us. We are served breakfast and lunch daily, and dinner 5 days a week. It's not hot. It's not dusty. Everything is cheaper here. It's absolutely gorgeous! (My last area was pretty much slums). Did I mention that it isn't hot? Blessings.
It's pretty apparent that the missionary that I am replacing is a pretty powerful missionary because he was in the middle of training and was assigned to be zone leader, despite never being district leader. Also because he's baptized every week for the past while. Well, since he left to be zone leader, and I am taking his place, I get to finish training a six week old missionary. His name is Elder Henriquez and he is from El Salvador. I am way excited to be his companion because he is way excited about missionary work. He seems confident in his ability to teach and I believe him. It's going to be a pretty fun change!
I was pretty sad to leave La Trinidad though. When I got to the area, my trainer informed me that he didn't have a single investigator. Three weeks later, still no luck. Then, I got a new trainer, and he taught me how missionary work really should look, and little by little we regained the trust of the members, found golden investigators, and changed the area. We ended that area's 6 month baptism drought and I left behind 3 treasured investigators that should be baptized before the end of the month. It's pretty crazy what the Lord will do if you put your trust in him, and work with all your might. Now, I'm going to have to learn how to work an area that is having success, which, for the moment seems like a whole new rodeo.
I have a ton of really cool photos, but in the craziness of changes and all, I don't have my camera with me right now, so you'll have to wait until next week.
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| These members fed us lunch each day. |
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