Buenos Tardes Familia!
Well another week here in Colombia has gone by with a flash
and now P-Day is just about over. This week has been really good! We have met a
lot of new people and finally a couple things are starting to happen, but we
are still putting our shoulder to the wheel and kinda trying to get things
going here in Jordan. Stress level has gone down a bit because I got everything
caught up as far as organization goes with the Area Book and all of that is
really a blessing to have done. For any of you that have been on missions, you
know that the area book can either be your best friend or your worst curse
because if you don’t keep it well, it is your worst curse. Your zone leaders
will ask for it, and your area book is where you keep registered everything,
the people you talk to, what you have taught, your investigators, everything
has to be registered. If you don’t keep on the ball, well, 2 or 3 days and you
are behind. You have to kinda think back and think: “What did I teach them? How
did the lesson go?” It really takes some effort to pull it all out. We have
been pretty good about it the last couple of weeks and have it all caught up.
Really, honestly, it’s a thing that not a lot of missionaries get good at, and
I am determined to do it. It can be a great help. That being said, normally, like the other night, we got home
about 9:20, I was updating the area book until 10:10, so 20 minutes to kind of
get ready to go to bed. It wasn’t terrible, but it keeps you busy. Training and
trying to teach, teaching patience, that kind of thing, there are a lot of
things that we just do that you don’t think you have to explain but you really
do. They don’t know very much.
If you can hear, I HATE this. I hate when they blast the
music so loud that you cant hear anything (Note from Jessica: In the background of
this week’s recording, there is some very festive and loud Latin music playing,
So Elder Lewis has his own soundtrack going on.J
)
So, this week we did not have a baptism, because with
familia Guerrero moving it’s going to be very hard to keep Miguel Angel active in the
new ward. So we decided to cancel and make sure that the missionaries over
there get on the ball. We are helping them move and then making sure that when
they get there that they have missionaries helping them move in. That will help
them a lot. We ran into the problem where we could get their records for
matrimony, but actually the problem is that Daniel does not want to get
married. It’s really unfortunate. That’s basically what it is. He just doesn’t
want to commit himself.
Sorry I will pull out my planner to see what we have done
this week. It’s just been a flash. So we had Inter-Cambios this week. I got to
be with Elder Johnston, and it was really awesome because he is a really big
kid, he played Rugby. We are kind of like the same person. He played rugby for
2 years, his brother plays in Australia semi-professionally. But he is really
into musicals and plays. He’s this big jacked kid but he’s really into that. He
likes Les Mis, Newsies (his favorite), He’s in my district now, he is one of
the new guys. He actually reminds me a lot of Riley Parkinson. It was really
cool having an inter-cambio with him. The other thing is that he can dunk a
basketball, so when we went to contact a huge group of kids that were playing
basketball and I said: “hey, if this guy can dunk it, you have to listen to our
message.” And they said “ya right.” And then he did it. That’s right. So we
shared a little bit with them and talked about an English class, so we will see
if that materializes. Looking to get a better teaching pool here.
Other than that, we recontacted a family called
Tamele-Viejo, and they are way way far up on the mountain and they are a pretty
good family, I am hoping to get some good ground with them and teach them a
little bit. Found a couple of new people this week. Lets see… familia
Lopez-Medina have kind of stopped with their progress, but we had a good lesson
about the Book of Mormon so I am hoping that they are gonna get going again. We
also have an investigator named Edison that has a bit of a problem; we have
been teaching him this week and he said he would get baptized this week if he
could solve one problem. And that problem was that he had 2 women. That’s
right, he has two women, and they know about each other. That’s a big problem
as you can imagine. He has 2 kids with one, and then the other one he doesn’t
have kids with and he isn’t married to either of them but we are looking to
help him solve that problem. We told him that basically “you just need to leave
one. You just need to.” But you can imagine as a man who is trying to
straighten his life out, and he really is trying to straighten his life out, that’s
hard. That’s real hard. So he came to us so that he can get baptized. He is
really looking to change his life. He has already quit drugs, his family, parts
of his family, his dad and his dad’s wife are both members, and so they are
helping to straighten it out. He was into drugs for a really long time. He came
to church this week and hit it off with some members so I am hoping that that
is going to materialize, so if you would pray for Edison.
We are continuing to visit Victor, one of the guys that we
baptized a couple of months ago that’s still strong but having kind of a hard
time, just with new member things, but he’s doing well. We have been contacting
a heck of a lot more this week, we found a couple of good people that hopefully
we can teach, I am looking to do some more contacting this week.
So, I think that’s about my week. This week I have really
learned a lot about how wonderful our Father in Heaven really is with all of
us, especially when we are obedient. He desires so much to bless all of us. I
know it. I know that this is his Gospel. I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet.
As I testify to other people, it becomes more clear in my mind. Well, I love
you guys so much, and I look forward to reading all your emails. Chao Chao!
-Elder Lewis
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