Hola!
So I'm going to
apologize in advance... We weren't planning on going to email right now so I
don't have my camera or my planner with me so this email might be a little bit
short!
Thank you Alison and
the Hickens for the letters this week! And thanks to the Leatherman's for the
Christmas present!
This week has been
really slow! Both Elder Taylor and I were sick and we each had to stay inside
for one day each! President and Sister Mullen are really adamant about us
staying in for the day if we're sick.. But we spent a lot of time finding
people to teach. We'd been struggling with remembering to ask everyone we
talked to for referrals, but we've done that every day this week! And we got a
ton of referrals! Now we have a lot of people to go and visit! Nobody has been
super solid yet, but we're still trying! New Year's Eve was fun. We had dinner
with a less active family and then we spent the night with other missionaries
at the Stake Center. On New Year's day, we spent all morning cleaning our area
of the house!
On Monday we went
miniature golfing with all the elders in our zone. It was so much fun! Part of
the course was shut down so we got free passes for another round! We're going back
today after we email. So I guess about a year ago, there were some not kosher
things going on between some elders and sisters in the mission so the mission
president segregated elders and sisters so that's why we don't ever do any
activities with the sister missionaries. But President Mullen wants to change
that so twice a month, our whole zone gets together for a P-Day activity. It'll
be a lot of fun!
Our church changed to 11:30 and
we thought that we'd have a lot of investigators come to church because all of
them were super excited about the time change. Alfredo was the only one who
showed up. He met with the bishop after church and bishop told us it will
probably be six months to a year before he can get baptized... But we're still
going to meet with him and teach him! It was fast Sunday so I was
kind of worried bringing an investigator to church because sometimes the
testimony meeting can be a little -iffy... But it was super great! I felt like
every single testimony had some relevance to Alfredo and the struggles that he
is going through right now!
I really like all of
your goals! I set a couple too! So I really wanted to stop eating junk food,
but that's hard because there are a lot of meal situations that I can't
control. But I decided that I'm not going to eat crap food if I can control it!
I also decided to read the Book of Mormon one time each transfer.
Okay so now to answer
all your questions:
I always have a lot of
money left over at the end of the month with the mission debit card! So I
haven't had to use my personal debit card unless it was something that I
shouldn't buy with the mission's money. I bought a hand bike pump at Big 5 so I
could carry one with me in my bag. I actually need some good front/back lights
for my bike. I was going to buy some at Big 5 but I thought you guys might be
able to find a better deal on Amazon? The one light that I have right now died
super fast. The batteries only last a couple days and it's not very bright.
Elder Taylor has these lights that are rechargeable and they're super bright!
I'll have to go get medicine this month so we'll probably go next Monday.
I have no idea when we will get iPads... The mission kind of "died"
when the old mission president left and there was a lot of disobedience. So the
missionaries here aren't ready to get iPads yet. They're still building
President's trust back up. I don't know when exactly we'll get iPads. My
glasses are fine! I don't feel like I need sunglasses yet, but it's been super
cloudy and cool lately but I'll probably want some in a month or two.
The best thing that
I've learned so far is that obedience brings blessings! A couple weeks ago,
President Mullen asked us to focus on asking for referrals in all of our
lessons. At first Elder Taylor and I were getting just three out of seven days
a week. There was always just one lesson a day that we'd forget to ask someone
in! So we weren't messing up too bad, but we still weren't getting any
referrals! This last week we decided that we really needed to improve and remember
to ask people who else they know that would want to meet with us or could use
some help. Every day we remembered to ask for referrals and we got referrals
almost every single day! It was crazy how just changing that one little thing,
just remembering in that one lesson, we were able to see a ton of improvement!
I love you all and
hope you all have set some good goals for this year!
Love
Elder Warren
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