Well this week was crazy and a little depressing. So Tuesday I had my first district meeting and I started it. Had it all planned out. Then the AP´s called and said they were coming to my district meeting and to wait for them. So of course I was then nervous. So they came and were all like taking notes, looking as if my eternal salvation all depended on the notes they were taking. lol. They were pretty intimidating and I don’t know why either. But, I still thought my first district meeting was awesome. I focused our district meeting on bringing reverence to the sacrament meeting and specifically during the sacrament. I set out the plan of how we were going to teach key families and leaders about how important the sacrament is and commit them to pray through the whole passing and blessing of the sacrament. But, then to my surprise the AP´s [assistants to the mission president] got up and talked about the same thing. They expounded on my lesson and set up something called a “cosecha” with us - which is a “reaping of the harvest” or so I believe. And they said that we needed to get all the priesthood holders 16 years old and up and teach them about the importance of the “santa cena” [Holy Sacrament] Friday night. Then Saturday they were going to come out. Every missionary with 1 or 2 members was going to go out and all together we were going to visit every member in the branch in one hour, about the importance of the “santa cena” and commit them to pray through the whole thing. It was really cool and really exciting to think about. So my district worked hard on gathering the people for Friday. We had 20 people show up which was almost all of them that could. We taught them all about the importance of the “santa cena” and about what we were going to do Saturday. But then Saturday only the president of the rama [branch] and 3 other people showed up. And the AP´s were an hour and a half late. And we weren’t able to do the “cosecha”. I was pretty up set. Especially with the AP´s, because I spent lots of time with that and because of it only two of my 9 investigators showed up for church since I didn’t have time to remind them about church Saturday because I was stuck in the church building.
But I did do a baptism Saturday and it was good. His whole family showed up and they aren’t members so maybe we’ll get to teach his family with time. Wednesday we had our zone conference. It was my first Zone conference that I actually understood. So that was good. But I also realized that it wasn’t very organized at all. The president wanted to talk about our numbers - like always, focusing on our baptisms. But it was basically a couple missionaries arguing with him about his ideas. Then the other missionaries were all bearing their testimonies about his ideas. We only talked about 3 things in 2 and a half hours: committing our investigators to get baptized after sacrament meeting, using members more in our lessons, and baptize more people. So I thought that was actually kind of funny. But yea that was my week. Not to interesting. Just working. lol.
Elder Woestman
