Well,
this was quite a busy week! All the zone leaders and sister leaders had a 2 day
conference with president zobrist in the mission home, and lets just say there
are a lot of really nice perks of being a zone leader. they rent a super nice
soccer field with artificial grass and let us play there for a few hours, eat
wherever we want to (100% reimbursable, thanks for your tithing) and then we
eat in the mission home. we had some real american barbeque burgers, which is
something i have not had in a while (like 11 and half months) and then enjoy a
spirit filled conference for 2 days. Not too shabby. We all ate and were filled
physically and spiritually. President talked a lot about family history and
just how important the work is. In the end, what we are doing every day with
the investigators and less actives we are teaching is the same thing we do in
family history work. Its interesting, because in D&C 2 it talks about how
Elijah will restore the priesthood keys to Joseph Smith, and that if that were
not the case, the whole earth would be "utterly wasted at His
coming." President talked about how the whole purpose of this earth is to
create eternal families, and if we didnt the priesthood and the sealing
ordinances, this whole mortal experience would essentially be a waste. So we
are going to be teaching hardcore family history to get these people ready for
the temple in Arequipa.
Our
investigators are pretty good. We are teaching a number of people, but their
progress is slow. We are kind of in a searching process right now. We are
leaving behind a bunch of investigators that arent really progressing, and
looking and looking and looking for new people that want to progress. To help
with that, my comp and I have decided that we are going to schedule like 6
family home evenings every monday with part member families and active members
and ask them to invite their friends. We will see how things play out.
My area
is very very different from Pedregal. Pedregal was all farmland, super quite,
and super laid back. Alto Misti is the city, and everyone always seems to be in
a hurry. The area isnt nearly as big as Pedregal, but it is super nice. After
being in super impoverished areas for the first almost year of my mission, I am
in an area where the people have money. Everyone has internet, a car, nice
houses-- its a lot like the States actually. But still, no carpet in the houses
:(
That was
my week, have a good one all!
Elder
Matheson
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