Week 58

Monday, January 21, 2019

So my new area is great. There are lots of things we will get to start doing to get the work moving along here. But the weird thing is there are no hills... I feel super weird and out of place. It’s not an area very appealing to the eyes but it’s gonna be great. My comp is an elder from Chile but currently lives in the USA with his relatives. So he speaks English and I’m getting to re-learn Spanish. I’m DL of 8 awesome elders including the zone leaders. I get to live in a house with 4 elders one of which is my trainer on the mission. (My mission dad) I never thought I’d get to be so close to home again. It’s great to talk about areas, people we taught and what not. Here in a few weeks we will have some baptisms.

First is Miriam. She is dating a guy online who lives in Utah. He gave us her info by sending a reference. She now loves the church more than him... but when we teach they do a face time call and he participates which is cool. Her only problem is she works... like a lot. So Sundays are hard because they are trying to hire another but until them they are killing her. She is solid but will take a little while. She has already been to church once. Over all we will baptize her and get her sister Sara to jump in the water with us as well. 

Second there are two kids Nicole and Nataly who have 9 and 11 years. The whole family are members but a little less-active. They are scared the girls will baptize and go in-active. But we will be pretty straight with them and get her to sign the papers and let them be baptized. We are working on strengthening the family. And we have a bunch of others who are a while away but have potential. 

I’m excited to get things going and make a real difference in this city. I love you all and hope you all have a great week. You are always in my prayers!

This was me saying good bye to my old district in Colatina (on bottom)

Elder Lee