Family,
Sounds like you all had a fun weekend on the lake. Here in Cuenca, we kind of had a crazy week as well. Tuesday we had to go to Machala for a zone conference. Machala is hot like Guayaquil and also about four hours away from Cuenca. It was great to hear from President. What I noticed is that I am not a new missionary anymore. I barely knew anyone because they were all so new. Anyways, we got back to the nice cool, thin air of Cuenca at about 8. We ate pizza from Papa Johns.
My companion is doing better. A little slapping around fixed everything. And everyone in the house has a better attitude. I lived a little bit of the Zone Leader life this week. One of the zone leaders went home to Guatemala because he finished his mission and so our other zone leader was left alone. He is living with us until he gets a new companion. So, I was his companion for a week and learned a lot of things about the mission. Every missionary is where they are for a reason. I got to participate in a meeting that consisted of Me, Elder Chicaiza, President, and the Stake President to talk about the state of Cuenca as far as missionary work goes. I learned a lot.
In my sector, we had a lot of success this week. We invited 8 people to be baptized and they all accepted. The problem was, that all of them didn´t go to church. The people here think the church is boring. It makes me sad because for my whole mission, I have trusted (I want to say CONFIAR, but obviously you guys wouldn’t know what that means... But TRUST I guess is close enough) in the church to build the investigators’ testimony... That sentence might not make any sense so if not sorry. (Siempre he confiado en la Iglesia para fortalecer los testimonios y ánimos de los investigadores) That is what I want to say, I don’t know how to say that in English. So I have to find a way to help my investigators enjoy their experience at church. We have a lot of work to do. But that is good.
I am super happy to be here. When we have success with the missionary work, it brings me the most happiness. It has been a great week and I am very excited to work hard this coming week. I also had the opportunity to study with the mission president this week too. It was great. We studied 2 Nephi 9:21-24. Study it!
I am glad to hear everything is going good. I will be home in no time... That is the other thing i realized.
Love,
Elder McRae
Sounds like you all had a fun weekend on the lake. Here in Cuenca, we kind of had a crazy week as well. Tuesday we had to go to Machala for a zone conference. Machala is hot like Guayaquil and also about four hours away from Cuenca. It was great to hear from President. What I noticed is that I am not a new missionary anymore. I barely knew anyone because they were all so new. Anyways, we got back to the nice cool, thin air of Cuenca at about 8. We ate pizza from Papa Johns.
My companion is doing better. A little slapping around fixed everything. And everyone in the house has a better attitude. I lived a little bit of the Zone Leader life this week. One of the zone leaders went home to Guatemala because he finished his mission and so our other zone leader was left alone. He is living with us until he gets a new companion. So, I was his companion for a week and learned a lot of things about the mission. Every missionary is where they are for a reason. I got to participate in a meeting that consisted of Me, Elder Chicaiza, President, and the Stake President to talk about the state of Cuenca as far as missionary work goes. I learned a lot.
In my sector, we had a lot of success this week. We invited 8 people to be baptized and they all accepted. The problem was, that all of them didn´t go to church. The people here think the church is boring. It makes me sad because for my whole mission, I have trusted (I want to say CONFIAR, but obviously you guys wouldn’t know what that means... But TRUST I guess is close enough) in the church to build the investigators’ testimony... That sentence might not make any sense so if not sorry. (Siempre he confiado en la Iglesia para fortalecer los testimonios y ánimos de los investigadores) That is what I want to say, I don’t know how to say that in English. So I have to find a way to help my investigators enjoy their experience at church. We have a lot of work to do. But that is good.
I am super happy to be here. When we have success with the missionary work, it brings me the most happiness. It has been a great week and I am very excited to work hard this coming week. I also had the opportunity to study with the mission president this week too. It was great. We studied 2 Nephi 9:21-24. Study it!
I am glad to hear everything is going good. I will be home in no time... That is the other thing i realized.
Love,
Elder McRae
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