Maximizing Time!

Hola querida mamita

Crazy that bub can get his papers so soon. It´ll be another crazy waiting period until he gets his calling. I´m sending a bunch of pictures this go around, like 5.

so this week Elder Muñoz and I went crazy and we did over 330 contacts. usually we had been averaging around a 120. But we really took to heart what our president has been telling us the last 6 months and and we managed to do 3x the amount of contacts while maintaining and actually even increasing the amount of lessons that we normally have in the week. what happened? Honestly we just needed to actually go out and do what the Lord through the president has been telling us to do. And we have been blessed for it. We found quite a few new people that seem very interested we had a ton of rejections. and when I say a ton I mean aa ton. But it didn´t even matter, we just shrugged it off and kept on looking.

President Fernandez had us do an exersize where it showed us that we were really wasting a lot of our time and so we took the principles that he told us and applied them and they worked. This week we are gonna do even more and it will be awesome.

We´ve started teaching a young couple, the girlfriend lives in another area where the church has never been until just recently this year, but she has obviously had a ton of contact with the church through her bf and she actually knows a few RMs, anyways she really really wants to get baptized and we have permission to teach her but we have to figure out what we are gonna do with the baptism and transferring her over to the brand new branch that is being opened. Her boyfriend has been pretty much inactive ever since he got baptized 2 years ago but now wants to serve a mission and so does she. hahaha so we´ll have to work with the bishop a lot to keep them on track.

One of the pictures I sen is of my pensionist. She is awesome one of the first members to get baptized her in Arequipa and she lived in Salt lake for a couple years, but that doesn´t mean she speaks english haha. The whole family is awesome and she cooks really good food that hasn´t upset my stomach very much. The only complaint I have is that we eat a toooooonnnnnn of beets. Im not sure why, i guess they must be in season or something lol.

We had a funny experiecnce a couple days ago while contacting. We contacted a lady and so we presented ourselves and that we wanted to share a message about Christ with her. so she asked us if we believed in the same Christ that she did, obviously yes. And then we told her that we wanted to help her to follow Christ´s example more fully and come closer to him. So she responded that the only way she could get closer to Christ is by reading his word...so we pulled out the Book of Mormon and said that here we have more of Christ´s word for us. She took one look at it and just said "No", put her head down and walked away briskly. E. Muñoz and I were kinda startled and after she had walked a little bit away we just started laughing.

Anways I love you all, GO COUGARS and I´ll talk to you next week!

Elder Patrik Connole