So, first things first: They don’t have pouch mail anymore and I don’t know what to do. I just tried to give my APs some mail to send and they said the Church cancelled the pouch system. It’s only for important documents now.
So I’m in the capital and it is not that far inland, but I’m not as close as I was. That’s for sure. My town isn’t that dangerous actually. Well, at least not for the missionaries. They respect us. So we do work at night. And Mom - I didn’t get sick from my companions. This week has been a real hard week, but way rewarding. So, they told me I would be living with three other missionaries that are bums. Well, they were just laying around. Tuesday night I stayed up with one of the elders till after 2:00 in the morning just talking- and he definitely needed someone to talk to. I have to give much thanks to my Father in Heaven for blessing me that night with the patience and energy just to listen. And then for the words that were given to me to say to him, because mostly I just know a lot more about him and I know how to help him now. And - my companion is turning around too. Thursday he did his personal study. It was in his pajamas - but it’s still better than not doing it at all. I feel really comfortable with these people though. Probably because two of them are Americans and they understand me. But the missionary work – I’m definitely still working on. My companion was just a chicken with his head cut off the first two days of the week. But I finally was able to start jumping in and things are going way smoother. We had 8 investigators go to church this week, which is way better than the 0 of last week. And we have 5 people committed to get baptized. So the work is moving. And I was able to meet a lot more of the members this week. So, I set up days for them to go out with us this week. We won’t be teaching with young men and women this week like we did last week, because my companion I guess only taught with children before. So let’s just say changes are happening.
Today, which is our p-day by the way, we had our zone conference. It lasted for ever. This morning nobody in the house knew how to get there so we took a taxi. That took a good amount of money and then the conference didn’t end till 1:30. Then we had to eat there. And, because my zone is the zone of the APs, we had to clean up afterwards. We didn’t get home till 3:00pm. So I’m typing really fast to get out on time. lol. So the week was good.
Love You,
Elder Woestman
