Well
this week went awesome and I have a ton to write. As you guys know, there
is never enough time. But this week was great, but my dad would like me to
write a little bit about my daily schedule, and only because it is his BIRTHDAY
this week, I will comply with him. JK, dad, I love you and happy birthday!
My
daily schedule is wake up at 6:30, workout, eat, and shower for the day. At 8 we
start our studies: personal, companionship and language. At 11 we leave to
work. We have actually been having lessons for the morning, so at 12:30 we go
to lunch. After lunch, from about 1:30 to 3:30, we are contacting or knocking
doors for most of this time. After that, it is quite busy. We are in lessons
with investigators and with members for most of the night. We do walk quite a
bit, there aren't buses here very often and sometimes the citas are about 1 to
2 miles from each other, so we end up walking a fair amount. Here we
actually don't eat dinner because there is just to much to do. So when we get
back to the house at 9:15, normally after a lesson, we plan till about 9:45 and
then we make a quick snack.
But
this week I want to focus on our investigators. The Lord really blessed us
this week. For some reason, this week I didn't feel like I was on top of my
game, I felt that I was lacking. We have a lot of investigators that we are
teaching but are not progressing. But this week I decided to fast. And wow, did
the blessings come. We had one family that we are teaching come to church--a single mom and her 3 kids, and they are reading the Book of Mormon and
progressing so well. They have a baptismal date for the 18th. Then we had some
contacts that have been coming to church for the past two weeks and they want
to get married. And that never happens. Here in Colombia there are people that
have been together for 35 years and still don't want to get married to each
other. Then we had some menos activos come to church and their son isn't a
member, and we have been able to teach him. It has been such a great week. We
had 7 investigators come to church which I have never had happen in all my
mission. It was such a blessing and I am so grateful for the opportunity to
fast. It is always really hard, but when we put God's will before our own, the
blessings always come.
Although
this week was definitely hard, I don't know why I felt so off. I know that
through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, I can change my bad desires and become
better. I can become a better son of God. And there is no better place to
improve than in Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
I hope you all have a great day and
can feel of the love your savior has for you.
quë
estén bién y tengan una fantastica semana.
Love,
Elder
Parson.
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| Enjoying American food. |
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| Elder Thompson and Elder Parson enjoying American food. |
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| Elder Thompson and Elder Parson |
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| Missionaries in the Zone. |
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| Elder Thompson and Elder Parson with Gospel Principles class members in Neiva Ward. |
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| American food stash. |
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| Drowsy Elder Parson. |
