Week 42! Ciudad Delgado!

Week #42
12/25/16

Hey everyone!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This week has been super fun! Super successful despite some difficulties that we have had! Enjoyed the Christmas season and had lots of fun and have been really happy!

Tuesday we had a calm day i have had another ingrown toenail this week but unfortunately this ones a bit worse than normal and it was hurting a lot so we were walking slow and stuff but we ended up having lots of success! we had like 8 lessons and got to visit a lot of the people preparing for baptism! 

Wednesday, was pretty much the same but we had the chance to put 2 baptismal dates! Hopefully that will progress! We have an investigator named josue and he is super good! he has already told us that he received his answer and knows that this church is the truth! He comes to church on his own now and will get baptized the 14th of January! Were really excited for him!! 

Thursday we had the mission Christmas activity and it was super fun! We played a bunch of games and had a water fight! president asked me to be the photographer of the event so i was pretty excited!! I got to take pictures with a professional camera all day!! I miss photography a lot!! There were also a bunch of plays that every zone did and they were hilarious!! Tons of fun but we didn't get to work at all.. 

Friday i went to the doctor for my toe.. its a new doctor now and he put me on lots of drugs cause its infected.. this week he will operate on it and ill never have an ingrown toenail again! haha on that toe anyways.. 

Saturday i spent all day giving tours of the church because i cant work right now! but it was super successful i have like 50 people in 2 days enter the chapel to see the rooms and a short video! 

Sunday was crazy! we had the most people in church than all of the zone combined! we had 8 investigators!! On CHRISTMAS!! What a great Christmas gift from heaven! Were sooo happy and everyone absolutely loved it!! Then we went home because i cant walk:( but i got to take a nap so that was nice but it felt weird! 

Anyways have a fantastic week everyone!! thanks for reading!!! 

p.s. i got to talk to my family and it was absolutely amazing!! I Love them sooo much!! 

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Love,

Elder Beck

Week 41! Ciudad Delgado!

Week #41
12/19/16

Hey everyone!! This week has been good and im loving all of the Christmas spirit! And the fireworks! They have been shooting off tons of fireworks in the night and i love it! We can go up on our roof and see them! Its pretty great!

But anyways! this week has been one of lots of success!! We will be attending a wedding that we planned and a baptism before the change ends!! WOHOOO! Were helping a couple get married and then we hope they will get baptized! 

Not gonna lie im starting to get really lazy with writing my weekly letters! And today unfortunately i am sick so this is gonna be pretty short again.. Weve been having lots of fun and lots of success! Enjoying all of the little things and teaching tons of lessons! We are finishing each week with 35 or more lessons!! We have now identified who of all of the people we have found will progress to baptism and its been working well! We will have lots of baptisms in January! We had 7 investigators in church and they all have baptismal dates in January!! This week we found a new place in our area that we didnt know was part of our area so that has been fun! lots of exploring and lots of new people! We found 17 news this week!! Some really good and some that are okay but they are willing to listen and that whats important!! I lve the mission and i lve this area! I love sharing happiness and i am surprised a how fast the time has gone by! I hope each and every one of you have a great holiday season and take advantage of the opportunity to share a message or testimony about christ! wish us luck! the holidays here are hard! Thanks everyone for reading!!!

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Love,

Elder Beck

We decorated the house and a member found us a tree!! Pretty fun!!

HEYY Week 40!! Ciudad delgado!

Week #42
12/12/16

Hey everyone! this week was good! im gonna be really quick this week! I have been working really hard with my new comp and were killing it here!! WE have the love and support of the ward!! WE are trying to work a lot more with less actives and it has only brought us more and more success! We have received so many references from the members and we dont even have to ask them they are coming to us!! Its been excellent! We now understand and are working this ward!! We had 5 people in church again and we are all good times!! The next week we should have like 15 less actives and 10 investigators!! I love this are! i dont wanna leave but im scared i will have changes! I have dont so much work to find and find but havnt been able to see many baptisms but i think that this next month there will be lots!! I have almost no time left but i have had an amazing week! and im loving the Christmas spirit here! they have fireworks like every night and i can watch them from the roof of my house and there's always lights and music its fun!! I love the lord i love his work and i wont stop until my 2 years are up! Sorry that this week has been short but just know i am having a blast! Love you all thanks for reading!!!! 

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Love,

Elder Beck

Week 39 Ciudad Delgado!

Week # 41
12/5/16

Hey everyone!! This week has been splendid!! 

I absolutely love my comp and we are working super hard! I am scared that i will leave this area this change in three weeks! itd be a big bummer because i have worked so hard to plant the seeds here and find people and i wouldnt be able to see them progress to baptism! theres so many that are so close!! We have a lawyer that were teaching that has read the boo of mormon 3 times and says he believes its true and we gave him doctrine and covenants and pearl of great price and he said he is gonna finish it in like 2 weeks! he already finish true to the faith also! Lots of people really really good that have been going to church and keeping their commitments!

Tuesday we decided that we were gonna stop visiting a lot of people so that we could focus more on the people who are really progressing and it has been going well! its hard to let them go because they're people and we want to help them but we have to keep looking for the people that the lord has prepared for us that are ready to progress! We were able to have lots of visits and the people are really understanding the lessons that were teaching! were trying to be better teachers and be more dynamic so that the people can visualize and understand the importance of the gospel principles! Great day and the start to a new and better success! 

Wednesday, we had a similar day, we were able to keep working with our new technique and its been good! We are seeing lots inour area that the other churches are starting to notice how hard were working and they dont like it! HAAHA! The people are listening more to us and we are seeing things up to the point when their pastors are giving them scriptures from the book of mormon out of context to attack us and stuff like that.. pretty pathetic if ya ask me.. but its been okay were learning lots about how to help the people understand that we are here to teach in the way of the savior and we are here to serve them and love them not to convince them to do anything! 

Thursday, was interesting, so a friend of my comp that served in costa rica in the ward of elder artiaga got home from his mission and came to work with us so we split up and he went with his friend and i went eith a member! we were able to do good work!! found some news and got to go to all of the visits we wanted to!! 

Friday, was a day of tons of success! we had 8 lessons in one day! it was pretty great! all of the people we wanted to visit were home and remembered that we were coming!! we also committed 5 people to a baptism date!! 

Saturday was a Saturday like all the others in the mission telling everyone that they should come to church! But this week we have focused on the specific promises that we can make to the according to their needs if they obey the sabbath day! 

Sunday, this was the best sunday i have had in the mission, we finished the day with 10 new people and 6 baptismal dates! We had a family home evening with the family of the first counselor of the ward and none of his kids and their kds are members so we got to teach them all! IDK why no other missionaries have taught them! but i felt that i needed to ask him about his family and he said that he would appreciate it if we came to teach them! so we went and taught about the life of christ and things he did for us! it was awesome! and we had 5 people in church!! Totally stoked! i also shared my testimony in sacrament meeting! it was pretty scary haha! big ward!

Ha sido una semana de mucho éxito y estamos muy agradecidos por todas las bendiciones que el señor nos ha dado. Este semana estoy especialmente agradecido por los bendiciones del ayuno! Hemos visto tantos bendiciones por la fe que mostramos en el ayuno y yo se que es algo mandado por el señor! El nos da lo que pedimos si estamos dispuestos nosotros a hacer nuestro parte! En este caso el ayuno es una manera perfecto a mostrar el señor que le ama y que confía en el! Yo se que este es la verdad y que el ayuno nos bendice! Jesucristo vive y nos ama y gracias a el tenemos este evangelio para bendecirnos! Gracias a todos por leer! Tengan una buena semana!! 

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Love,

Elder Beck

Photos are of my comp and i in one of our areas thats super pretty and a picture of the street i live on!

Week 38 Ciudad Delgado

Week #40
11/28/16

Hola!

 This week has been a fun one! lots of laughter and lots or hard work! Were enjoying the fun little ways to make ourselves crack up laughing in the streets and it has been pretty fun! I also decided this week that im going to move to costa rica.. my companion has shown me pictures and stuff and its pretty much the coolest place on earth. Plus now i speak spanish! but anyways it was a really good week! 

Tuesday.. Tuesday is always the hardest day for me cause you gotta get yourself back in to the routine of working hard after a day of well not doing much! but it was an excellent day! we got to do divisions with the members and got to do lots more visits! its probably the most effective thing you can do in the misison! It allows us to go to the visits all day and have another companionship finding news all day so we end up with double work and double success! We were able to find 5 people to teach and put metas for baptism with 4 of them! 

Wednesday, we had interviews with the mission president! it was good, we talked a lto about how the mission is teaching the restoration and how we can improve it so that there is more evidence and testimony.. it has been going really well! We are still learning it but weve already seen the blessings! that took up a lot of the day but we were still able to work a lot! We had some really good lessons! right now were teaching this lady named Noemi and she has progressed a lot! she is really comfortable in her church and doesn't wanna leave it but is learning more and more about the importance of a few of the principles we teach like the authority! And She went to church!! She liked it a lot! We also had a correlation with the ward mission leader and were able to figure out some very important things!! I think we will have a lot more success with the members now!

Thursday, we had a  pretty normal day lots of visits fell and we didnt have mny lessons but we had time to find new ppl because nobody was home we wanted to teach! We put 3 baptismal dates!

Friday we had a really slow day but it ended pretty good we worked really har din the night time and taught some really powerful short lessons while contacting and put a few baptismal dates!! 

Saturday well if you have been reading my letters you already know that we invited everyone we possibly could to go to church! haha! Other than that we didnt do much! but we have had wonderful experiences and lots of fun! i have really loved my time with elder Artiaga! he is a great companion and we are working really hard together! 

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!! thanks for reading! 

the pic is where we write every week! i didnt have any other pics so we took a selfie! 

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Love,

Elder Beck