Hey everyone,
This week has really flown by. It was go go go. The week started off with a district conference combined with a small zone meeting. The main objective was to set Zone goals for the transfer: baptisms, new baptism dates, church attendances, and new investigators. The district conference was the first time I met the rest of my new district. It's a little funny because there are only two companionships, mine and one other.
The rest of the week was full of lessons, a lot of them went great and we were able to find a lot of new people to teach. We started teaching this part member-family, who missionaries have taught in the past but they focused on baptism. We said that if they don't want to get baptized that is fine we are here to help them grow closer to christ. For me this was a good experience of focusing on the person and their needs. They are children of God, not just numbers for a baptism count.
One thing that happened multiple times this week, which is funny but a little frustrating, has to do with the references we get from the church's "Come unto Christ" page. We don't get a lot of these references in Constitución so we do get pretty excited when we get one. However this week whenever we would get one they wouldn't even live in our mission! We would teach a lesson which would go fantastic, the spirit would be super strong, and they are really receptive. Then we would have to refer them to other missionaries because they don't live in Constitución. It can get you down but you just gotta keep going.
On Sunday a good amount of our investigators came to church which was great. Two came in person and when we talked to them after they said they really enjoyed it.
One of the investigators I taught in Molino is getting baptized today (Monday). She asked if I could baptize her. I'll report on this next week so stay tuned.
Elder Neilson
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- new companionship
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