A Drunk Sober Investigator

Quick Answers to Questions

this week was pretty hectic haha! we had ztm on thursday, meet the new MP on friday, and weekly planning on saturday! haha!

I think the funniest experience we had was when we went to a investigator that we had. as soon as we got there he said (translated) "ELlldddderrrrrrrrrrsssss cccooCme Innnnn!!!!......IIm nnot DDDrrrunk" hahahaha!

I think my favorite experiences from this week has been our evaluations everynight. Elder Robles is a really really good teacher! every night we talk about what went well and what could have been better. Elder Robles usually has really good insights about how we can improve our lessons and help our investigators progress! i have learned a ton about teaching from him! i am still far from perfect but i am working hard to get better.

other than that we had a couple investigators come to church including the guy who got drunk! haha! PMG is right! everyone has different concerns! haha we were a bit bummed out because a bunch of our other investigators who commited to go to church bailed! we will need to push back a couple baptismal dates and we are probably going to drop some of the others... :/

A New Mission President

Lots of Travel
this week was really busy. it seemed like we were traveling the whole week (to an bapt interview, meetings with district/branch leaders, more baptismal inverviews. haha we didn't get to work too much in our area which is kinda sayang! but it is ok because I love interviewing people for baptism! because each time i get to see a glimpse of how the gospel has changed their lives! i especially love asking how they came to know that joseph smith was a prophet. even though everyone i have interviewed have very different lifes, backgrounds, and personalities, they still answer more or less the same way. haha "i [prayed/read the BOM/went to church] and i felt the spirit bear testimony to me that what the Missionaries were teaching is true!" I love listening to investigators bear this testimony! It fills me with joy everytime! i love this work! I know it is the work of the Lord!

New Mission President
our new mission president got here this week! we met him this morning! he is super smart. i am pretty sure that he is an electrical engineer but from the way he gives trainings i feel like he was the owner of some very successful buisness. haha. I have learned a ton already from him! right off the bat he seems to have a deep understanding of missionary work and has already seen many of the concerns and needs of the mission. i was a little suprised! haha i thought it would take him longer to get into the flow of things! haha but i have repented for not believing in him. I know that he was called of God and is just as inspired as Pres. Barrientos. I feel blessed that he is our new mission president.

Short Update and Questions Answered

1. everything is going great! haha
2. the funnest thing we did this week was........... everything we did was fun! haha(it was a pretty normal week)
3.my favorite thing about missionary work right now is meeting and getting to know a bunch of philippino people ever day!
4. our next Mission President arrives this week. His name is president Andrata (philippino)

2.(cont.) this week was pretty normal. we are getting more familiar with our areas and we have found a bunch of the investigators and members that the sisters were teaching. there was one investigator family that we found, when we TAO POed at there home they invited us to sit down and fed us pineapple(sta ana has a ton of pineapple farms) then they told us about how they always feed the missionaries even those who served here last year! haha if we didn't know any better we would have thought that they were a member family. haha! before we left they gave us 3 pineapples to take home with us! hahaa! Yum!!!