It's been a while, hasn't it? So what exactly has gone on
the past week and 2 days? We had zone conference. I think this has been my
favorite so far. It was really powerful, and I feel like I learned a lot. The
focus of the zone conference was refocusing on our missionary purpose. One new
thing we are doing as a mission is trying to teach the Restoration to every
single active member in the mission by this September. As a part of that, President
wants us to practice teaching it in just 4 minutes, so we can just be in and
out and have more emphasis on the spirit and the power of the message.
Elder Simmons and I have already had a couple appointments
like that, and they are really great. It’s a little hard teaching that short
sometimes, but we are practicing it a bunch and trying to get it better.
After zone conference, we had our interviews for the
transfer. They were super good. I always love meeting and talking with
President Pack one on one. It's always a very edifying experience.
One thing we learned at zone conference that is kind of
crazy, in the next 3 transfers, 71 missionaries will be going home and 61 new
missionaries will be coming in. That's when we have a total of 180 missionaries
in our mission. So we are going to be having some big changes in the coming
months.
At the end of the week, we had futbol again, and we were
able to get a couple of our investigators to come which was great. Afterwords,
we had a super good lesson with one of those investigators whose name is
Alvaro. He is this 13 year old who comes to play almost every week and already
has a super good relationship with the members and missionaries. He told us he
is interested and wants to come to church. He's a really good kid. We ran into
his mom at sometime in the week, and she told us how much he loves talking to
us and that one day after meeting with us he came to her and said a prayer with
her in their living room. He really is a good kid; I'm excited to see how
things work out for him.
We went and taught a recent convert from Ecuador who lives
in a pueblo. Then on the way back to the city, we missed our bus by 2 minutes.
Which then caused a delay that lasted 3 hours and led to us not getting back
until midnight....not gonna lie, I was pretty tired. It was pretty funny though;
we were all laughing about it later on.
So past couple of days nothing big happened, just talking
and teaching. But the fourth of July came and went so-yea, happy independence
day! That was pretty fun. We sang the national anthem, waved our flag around,
and ate some ice cream to celebrate; it was a good day. So that brings us up to
date for this week.
A flashback to what I said last week about The Book of
Mormon challenge-I'm currently in Alma 8 right now and still going. A lot of
our downtime is spent reading so that we can finish on time. I honestly love it
so much. Reading all the time like this really helps us to be more consecrated
throughout the week and to have the spirit more with us. Whether we read or
pray each day can have a huge influence on day. We don't always notice it
sometimes, but when we look back it's easier to see. That's one thing I wish I
had done more before my mission, setting aside a good chunk of time just to sit
down and read the scriptures. I'm grateful for the opportunity I've had to come
to appreciate those chances as a missionary.
I love you all and wish you the best, till next WEEK!
- Elder Bassett
- that moment when your chair just decides to break while
your sitting on it and you just gotta take it with class.
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