5/2/16
Hey everyone! Buenas días!
this email is going to be relatively short! we spent a lot of time this
week preparing for our baptism! So we spent time every day in concepciòn. We
had lots of visits with our progressing investigators there and did some service
for a guy that were teaching digging a bathroom for him haha it needs to be as
deep as i am tall so we will go back and help again! I got a chance to do
interchanges with a zone leader this week and it was pretty cool! hes was a
super cool guy and a really good missionary! I really enjoyed teaching with him!
I learned a lot! we have a lot of progressing investigators and really good
numbers! but this week it has been hard to find news! we only found 11 and the
norm. is 12 so we were a tad bit upset with that but im happy we found a lot of
positive news! I am doing way better in lesons now! i feel relatively
comfortable with my Spanish and can participate good in lessons! This week we
have been practicing giving m the opportunity to invite others to do things.. be baptized read and other stuff like that so its has been fun! We are working
mostly with our baptismal dates to try and really have the dates stay! often
times they fall because they dont go to church or because they frink coffee or
something so were trying to work with them a lot to help them reach their goals
we set! We have also been trying to work with less actives in our area! We need
to increase the attendance here in our branch so they will start building a
chapel! That is my goal we need like a constant 80 and right now we have 50 to
60..I really want them to start that i think it would be good for the branch! We
had a cool experience with one less active, her name is Kati and she really
wanted to come back to church but she has work on sundays and we had been
teaching her endure to the end and stuff like that and promised her that if she
showed the lord she was willing to sacrifice a little she would be blessed with
a way to go to church, and turned out that this past Sunday she didn't have to
work and was able to attend church! we were very excited for her! she hadnt been
in over a year and a half! So the week was great! we had lots of success and fun
along the way as well! but unfortunately Saturday we did not have the baptisms!
we filled the pila and prepared the whole service and they didn't show up! We
were super bummed! so we went to concepciòn and found them and rescheduled it for
that afternoon at 4 and when the time came they didnt show up again! we were
pretty disappointed about that but we talked to him at church and he said they couldn't do it because something serious came up so we will have it this weekend!
He felt bad and we were happy to hear that it wasn't because he wasn't ready!
Sunday was good! we had descent attendance! we brought 11 people to church so for
that we were happy! other than that not much happened! today for pday we played
softball which was really fun! we mowed the grass into a diamond and played i
had a good time! all the missionaries came and some members played too! Anyways
thats all for the week! thanks! i am out of time so no Spanish testimony this
week! i apologize! but im doing great and i am loving everything about being
here in the mission! Thanks for reading and i hope everyone has a fantastic
week!!
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Love,
Elder Beck
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