Making Things Work However One Can

Lol thanks for the pics. Everyone here in the zone is excited for Bub. And they all say "Oh wow! He looks just like you! And so do the rest of them!"

Haha, my health is getting better everyday. I think the pills are helping out a lot.  So yeah, Pte hasn´t said much but he is most likey gonna keep me here in Arequipa where the good doctors are. He told me that he wanted to send me outside of Arequipa but if I´m still sick it just wouldnt be possible.

 

Anyways on to this week.

 

Monday after weeks and weeks of  promising the sisters that we would play some volleyball, we finally did. Actually only us gringos and my companion played because the latinos have about talent for volleyball as I do for soccer. (aka not much) But it was fun to do something a little different and something that I actually play well. At night our apointments all fell through and so we just contacted.

 

Tuesday, we had our district meeting. But E. Sulcaray and I didnt participate very much because we felt like we needed to talk with some specific Elders that were having some troubles. So we just kinda pulled them out and talked to them and tried to help them out. Hopefully they will start to pick it up. Then we went to our apointments and once again most of them fell through. We took a new convert Carlos around to show him where the members live and then he went with the rest of the YSA to watch the Peru vs Chile game on big screen. Chile and Peru are big rivals so everyone was hyped for the game. Peru almost always loses to Chile, especially when they are away. And once again they lost 4-2. We tried to get some work done during the game but EVERYONE was watching the game and EVERYONE was not in a good mood. So not a productive day

Skipping over to Saturday real quick because Im running out of time...we had 2 more baptisms. The 2 kids were great and really easy to teach.  The problem wasnt that they didnt want to go to church, they just didnt want to go to our ward! Grr. So after much fellowshipping we finally got them there and as you can see from the pics that we had a good turnout at the baptism. The 2nd counselor in the stake presidency baptized both of them because they are his nephews. So  it was nice to have him there as well. And he was there for the confirmations. Ha speaking of the confirmations, we stopped by early to make sure that they were getting ready to go and good to go. So we went to church and waited and waited and we took the sacrament and yeah we stopped waiting. But there was a problem...we both had to give talks! So I grabbed a member and we went to go find the family, and my comp gave his talk. (which he extended to be about a 20 min talk lol). The member (Renzo) and I got there just in time to see what was taking so long. Friends of the Dad were trying to get him to go play soccer. But as soon as the Dad saw us show up he put his shirt and tie on and thanked  us for getting him out of a tough situation. So we showed up right before 11 and confirmed them both. Whew.

 

Well thats all I got, talk to you next week!

 

Elder Patrik Connole