This week was alright. I guess the main thing that
I wanted to talk about was that we did divisions this week on Wednesday. Since
I'm SENIOR COMPANION I had to go with our district leader, Elder S__. He's like, 18, and has like 5 or 6 months in the mission. So he
doesn't really speak Spanish that well. Hes also really shy, but he's a good guy. But, we did the divisions, and I guess the area presidency said that
the new way of doing divisions is that the leaders need to have the "model
area" and that when we do divisions, both companionships have to stay in
the "model area". So we lost a day of work in our area.
At the beginning of the
day, I was being like, the normal missionary me that I am with my companions...I
was contacting families in the streets, I was taking all the initiative in
teaching the lessons, and since he didn't know the area that well, he had a list
of directions of where the people live, and I was the one who like, looked for
the houses, and if we knocked on the wrong house, I contacted the people that
live there. I actually contacted this super sick family that I actually wish
was in my area, because it is a mom (with no dad, so we don't have to deal with all
the marriage stuff) and her 4 sons who are all in their 20's, and I was talking
to the youngest who likes watching the NBA and playing street fighter and I was
like, "Hey that's really cool because I like watching the NBA and watching street
fighter too!" and we made that connection (after teaching the actual lesson of
course...they're very receptive lol) So I hope that the other missionaries are
doing good with them.
But the point is, is that I was doing almost everything by
myself, and at like 5pm, I realized that this guy is supposed to be
training ME and not the other way around...so I told him that, and then
stopped taking the initiative in everything, and then the quality of the day
just plummeted. We would sit in a members house for 2 hours because
he wouldn't start the lessons, and then after he wouldn't say "okay we have
to go now." We stopped contacting people in the street, and if we went to
a house and it WASN'T the house we were looking for, we just said "oh okay
bye" instead of contacting them. And the worst part was is that when we
got to the house, my companion, and his companion had bought movies and started
watching movies, and I didn't say anything because I told the DL earlier
"man, you're the district leader. When the district starts doing dumb
things you have to tell them to stop!"
So yeah. Then at the next morning I talked with him for a
long time about how when I stopped contacting people, and taking the initiative
he didn't do anything, and about the movies and stuff, and about how he still
struggles with Spanish because he reads the scriptures every day in English...and
stuff like that. It's frustrating.
The work in our actual area was pretty good. We had a lot of
lessons, and I contacted a lot of people in the streets. We had a lot of people
commit to go to church, but in the end nobody ended up going, So the baptismal
dates that I put during the week fell through. you know. because they didn't go to
church...but I'm assuming things will get a lot better.
There's this one family
in my ward who were in JAMUNDI (my first area) when I was there and they moved
in like January. So that was really cool! I talked with them for a long time,
and my converts in Jamundi are still active members!
Yeah, so, love you guys.
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