Hey all!! So this was a great week!
So first of all an introduction to my new comp! It is
Elder Jay Riggs from Pleasant Grove Utah! He just barely got here to the
mission, so I am here in Topilejo with a greenie, but he is super awesome, we get
along really well and I am excited to have this opportunity to be with him! He
doesn’t speak like any Spanish so that has been something that I have had to
get used to, but he has gotten a ton better in just a week, so I am super
pumped to see what we are going to be able to do here together!
This week there wasn’t a ton to report. A lot of showing
Elder Riggs the area and training him too. It’s a lot different to have a
greenie that doesn’t speak Spanish, it’s like another cool add on of a
challenge, but through the help of the Spirit, his progress is going to be super-fast!
We didn’t have a ton of progress with the people we are teaching this week
which is a bummer. I am teaching more investigators than I have in my whole
mission right now, but no one is progressing very well which is super
frustrating because in other areas it’s like I didn’t have very many, but they
were all doing well so it kind of made up for it which is hard! It’s
frustrating, but I was talking to one of the other elders from another branch,
and he told me that in our areas sometimes it’s just like that, and that’s when
we really learn a lot about ourselves, and the Lord and grow a lot as people so
that was super cool!
Then we had an awesome general conference this weekend! I
loved Elder Hales talk! I loved Elder Lawrence’s talk! I loved Thomas S Monson’s
Talk! I loved Carole M Stephens talk! I loved Vern G Keetch’s talk! I loved
Neil L Andersons talk! And I loved Elder Stanfil’s talk!! Haha I loved
conference as a whole!!! Oh and Elder Durrant’s talk too. A lot of really cool
talks on obedience, faith and how we can grow them both in our lives. I really
hope to be able to apply these things to my own life, and put a special focus
in helping all of the people that I am teaching to apply these inspired words
to their lives as well!
Elder Stout
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