So, this
week marks the kind of half way point for me! Yes, that´s right, one year from
now I will be done with my mission. It really is crazy to think how fast time
flies. I am excited to get back and see all the people and do all the things I
havent been able to do for the last year, but I am super grateful that I still
have another year to do things that I will never be able to do again. Our time
here in the mission (and in life, for that matter) is so incredibly short, and if
we dont take advantage of every second, it will pass us by. Life is happy in
the service of our God!
It was a
very normal week here in Arequipa. Almost nothing interesting happened. Just..
normal. One of the sisters in our zone had an emergency transfer, but they were
in a trio so it was kind of expected. Being in a trio is pretty much the
mission hot seat, because if something happens in another companionship, boom,
you´re gone. And that is exactly what happened here. One sister in the mission
got sent home, and they shipped Sister Guzman out immediately. Our zone is
super cool though, there arent any trouble makers, which makes our job as zone
leaders much much easier. The missionaries just work hard, which makes me
happy. The only problem is that most of them have less than 6 months in the
mission, so they lack a sense of how to work effectively. Little by little we
will train them and get them working hard and effectively. We had a service
project as a zone on friday, and it involved moving these giant boulders
around. we got some ropes out and went to work, and we did some spartan yells
and pretended we were the Spartans from 300 and it seemed to help us move the
boulders and now the missionaries think they´re spartans. Whatever floats their
boat haha.
Oh, one
very unnormal thing that I just thought of happened last P-Day. We played
soccer as a zone last week, and the sisters even participated. We were all
having a good time until Sister Uriona somehow booted the ball over the 20 foot
fence that surrounds the chapel (she was only like 10 feet from the wall, i
dont know how got that much ariel velocity on that ball). It all seemed to
happen in slow motion-- I was analizing the trajectory of the ball and
thinking, that ball is going to go right through that 3rd story window. It
DESTROYED the 3rd story window. The rest of the zone ran away, and Elder Coello
and I looked at each other, laughed for a second, and then went to talk to the
lady whose window we destroyed. She was chill about it, and we just have to pay
for a new window. The chapel is in the sisters area, and Sister Uriona and
Sister Perez went to talk to her also, and ended up teaching her the gospel and
are now teaching her every couple of days. The Lord works in mysterious ways!
Love you
all, have a good one!
Elder
Matheson
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