So transfers were this week and as you`ve already heard, I was made district leader. BUT not in Rimac, they moved me to Callao. Widely known as the most dangerous and poorest part of Lima. If you look at a map of Lima, there´s a peninsula jutting out of it. That´s my district. Elder Mondaca and I are in the Callao Ward and Elder Mann, Elder Tejada, Elder Jordan, and Elder Patiño are in La Punta Ward. Elder Mondaca is from Bolivia, Elder Mann and Elder Jordan are from Utah, Elder Patiño is from Ecuador, and Elder Tejada is from Honduras. We have the best district in the mission. Seriously these Elders are the best. On Wednesday I gave my first District meeting training and it turned out great. Also I have to interview 3 people this week for baptism, and I don´t know how to do that, but I´m sure it will work out fine.
This
was President Borg´s last transfer meeting. He´s going home this week,
and we´ll have our new president, President Larson. On Wednesday we had
to go all the way back to Rimac for Rafael´s baptism, and we stayed for
15 minutes and had to leave to be able to get back to Callao in time,
but it was really great to see him get baptized. He was really happy.
So
I like the new sector, the members are really nice, but they aren´t
used to accompanying the elders. Something that we´ve been focusing on
this week is figuring out the schedules of the members and asking them
when they can accompany us during the week, and we actually had quite a
few lessons with members this week. Just like investigators won´t get
baptized if we don´t invite them to get baptized, members won´t
accompany us if we don´t invite them to accompany us. Also we were able
to print off the ward list of action, and I told La Punta about it and
how effective it is, so they´re going to be working on that as well to
find people that were given a baby blessing but weren´t baptized, or
young men that are missing an ordination in the priesthood. One of the
struggles in this area is that on weekends on every street on every
block there are parties going on.
So
we were able to see the dedication of the temple of Trujillo
transmitted to the stake centers. Elder Bednar and President Uchtdorf
came to dedicate it. When they were sealing the cornerstone on the
temple you got to see what President Uchtdorf sounds like when he´s not
giving a talk, and he´s a very happy and funny person. The talks were
great and you could feel the spirit very strongly there. We weren´t
allowed to take notes or bring anything inside the chapel because it was
like a temple session.
On
Monday, before the transfers we were able to teach Samuel. He brought
his nonmember mother to our ward mission night last Thursday where we
saw "Meet the Mormons" and he said that she really liked it. Before
watching it, she had said that she wasn´t going to let him serve a
mission, but after seeing it she said that he needed to serve a mission.
So now he´s preparing to serve a mission a year from now. Also when I
went to Rafael´s baptism on Wednesday, the Rosales Flores family was
there and Rogger told me that on Tuesday he met with the bishop to start
his mission papers! So I´m happy for both of them.
I
had a great week. I´m trying not to be too overwhelmed by how much has
changed in the last week. I´m happy and I´m learning a lot. I´m really grateful for the time I had with Elder Price to learn how to be an
effective missionary. I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
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