This was a really good week! We've been really focusing on increasing our teaching appointments, and even though it was a holiday week, we were able to have 13 teaching appointments, with several people falling through. But I have a lot of pictures for you today!
Don't know if I could pinpoint a certain spiritual experience this, week but we did teach the Peñafiel family tithing! The lesson was great, and this family continues to amaze me how easily they accept
each lesson so well!
One thing I'm becoming a lot better at is learning how to be open and honest with my companion, not letting things get to me and keeping them inside me. Super glad I'm learning this now. He and I still get along really well.
Well, transfers are this Tuesday, (note: transfers are every six weeks) and Elder Hunt is leaving, which is really sad. This next transfer we should have a lot of baptisms, which is really exciting. It's crazy though that I'm three months into the mission already! Love you a ton!
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| Christmas party |
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| Family home evening with the Resabalas |
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| Sergio's pizza! We will go there for sure after my mission |
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| Reorganized my study area |
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| Sketching at church (sorry, can't get this to flip in post) |
January 11, 2016
The families we are working with are doing very well, the Peñafiel family, who I talked about before, are probably going to be baptized this month, and that will be really exciting. Also, we finally met with Israel and his family again, they live up in Greenport, which is a 45 minute drive from here. They are really happy to listen to us and know what we teach them is true. In their words, by the peace it brings into their house.
Church attendance was a little iffy this week, big rain storm and lots of wind, and some people stayed homebecause of that, apparently that's just part of Hispanic culture here, they don't like to go out in the rain, but anyways Kenia made it to church, which was really cool. She is the new person we are teaching this week. She is from El Salvador and incredibly nice. She has a 1 year old boy, and she loves having us teach her. She was taught with the sister missionaries about two years ago,
So in general, the work is really starting to move forward here. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw more than five baptisms while I'm here!
Haven't done service this week because we had so many lessons with people this week, but the mission is slowly putting into effect the Just Serve website, and soon we will be doing 10 hours of service a week. It's been really rainy, so raking leaves didn't work out.
I'm loving it here. I love all the people I am working with, and I can't wait to see what God has planned for this area.
Today Elder Honey and I went to the beach. It was freezing and super windy. I love you!
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| New Haircut, free from a barber in Flushing, Queens |
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| With his companion at the beach |
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| Yep, it's a crab, Atlantic ocean style. Sam can't go to beach without looking for crabs and other sea life. |
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| The Atlantic ocean |
