2 de Marzo 2015
Holy Moly! February has already come
and gone! The months are turning into days!
This last week was great! I honestly
love my new companion! He is super sweet! His name is Elder M. I probably told
you a little about him last week! It's super fun working with him! Because we
get along super well. And even though we both have been in the mission quite a
while, we both are still super excited to work! Time is going by super fast! I
really have trouble believing how fast it goes by!
Lots of stuff happened this last
week. For lots of the time I had to help my companion get to know the area and
get to know the members. And another thing that we did a ton this last week was
talk to new people. Right now we have the goal to talk to over 100 people a
week. This last week we talked to 81. This week we are going to talk to more
though! Talking to people can be funny. At first it scared me so bad. But in
the mission I have learned to just do it. Now it's actually kind of fun.
Because you never know what people are going to say. Some people are super
receptive. And some people are straight up rude. But my companion and I don't
let that get to us. We just laugh about it and keep going. And it actually has
helped us out a lot this last week because we really didn't have many
investigators. But we were able to go find some new ones this last week! We
figure that maybe 10 in 100 people will become investigators. And maybe one in
every 100 will end up being baptized! We have some pretty high goals set for
us! But we are super excited to keep working!
Sunday night we had a meeting with
President Rowley, the stake president here in Tumbes, and also the other zone
leaders from the other zone. We have that meeting once every month. We talk
about how the missionary work is going in the stake and changes that we need to
make. That was a pretty cool meeting! The stake president here in Tumbes is
super cool. It's fun being able to work with him! So we are excited to keep
working here in Tumbes. The church has only been here in Tumbes for 25 years.
So it is still relatively new. But it's growing! So that's great!
Today for Pday we watched Meet the Mormons with President Rowley
and the 2 zones here in Tumbes! That was sweet. I had heard tons about that for
so long and was dying to see it! So I'm super happy that I was finally able to
see it! It was super good though! Probably my favorite part was the Bishop from
Atlanta's dance. jajajajaja. That's crazy. And then afterwards, some of us went
and ate Pollo a la brasa. I love pollo a la brasa with Inca Kola. I'm gonna
miss that a ton after the mission.
Tomorrow we have to travel to Piura
for the leaders’ conference which is going to be on Wednesday. So I'm pretty
excited about that! It should be super fun. I'll try to take some pictures this
time... I hope we get to eat in Chilis--that would be the best! Because there
are hardly any restaurants that you can trust here in Tumbes! They closed
Dominos down. But not just in Tumbes—in all of Peru because supposedly they
found a rat in one of them in Lima. So that's kind of a bummer! I was super
happy with Dominos here! But anyway, speaking about pizza, our pensionista goes
to Ecuador every weekend to visit her family. And this week she brought us
pizza from Guayaquil! That was super sweet! Our pensionista here is the
best!
Sorry there's not more time today to
write!! We are pretty busy! But I'm doing well! I love you all! Thanks
for all the love and support!
Elder Baker
P.S.
That sounds super sweet about the BYU
basketball game vs. Gonzaga! Sounds like BYU has a decent team this year, but
they’ve had lots of ups and downs. Hopefully next year they will be better! ;)
Love you!
I’m grateful for piano. Even though I
never applied myself to learn, I wish I would have. But every morning listening
to piano music helps me feel the spirit! I love music for real!
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| We were going through our room and throwing tons of old papers away and we played basketball with them. We are not very good though--that's why all of them are on the floor. But anyway, after we finished, I realized that it looks just like the game Paper Toss for iphones. jajaja |
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