Hey!
I
hope you all are doing well! This week was pretty normal, but we're
excited because Wanderley is going to be baptized this Sunday! He is
really awesome, super firm and really has made a huge effort in
changing his life and really committing to the gospel. He quit smoking
and drinking coffee in just a couple of weeks and comes to church every
week even though he works during the night!
The office is cool, I'm
getting more comfortable now, and I'm realizing that my time here is
probably really good preparation for 'real life'. Because it's more like
what life after my mission will be like, having a job, and trying to
balance time between working and studying and family. So I thought that
was cool when I came up with it!
President was awesome in the
zone conferences and leadership council recently. He really is focused
and is doing away with everything that is unnecessary. His big focus
is the number of people that are entering the temple, and then the
number of people being baptized, and he says if a missionary is helping a
large number of people to do these things that basically nothing else
matters (like other numbers, lessons, contacts and such). This is
having a good impact, because these past few months the mission has
really hit the brakes on baptisms, like the smallest number of people
being baptized in a month in like 3 years.
It's funny, president always
tells stories of when he served here and how many people he baptized...
He baptized WAY more than the mission is now, haha. But this is giving a
really good vision, I think a lot of missionaries had kind of given up
on baptizing, because it's so hard, but President is teaching that it's
not good enough just to teach someone, but "that if someone is willing
to let you into their house and hear your message that you have to
convert that person to the gospel." - having real success and really
converting people. It's cool, I'm excited to see how the mission changes
as a result of all of this.
I
can't believe that I've been on my mission almost a whole year! It's
almost halfway over! AAAhh! I remember when I got here thinking about
all of the people that already had a year, and how old they seemed... I
felt like it would never get here, but now time is passing really fast!
I absolutely love my mission! I am learning soo much, but more
importantly I am changing, or at least trying! Changing to really live
the gospel of Jesus Christ with my whole heart, because I know for sure
that it is true!
Love you all!
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