So this week finished the transfer and heading into the next which will mean 14 months on the mission! This transfer was one of the best transfers Ive had on the mission. I was thinking a lot these past few days why that might be. Ya, we´ve had a lot of success, I got along well with my Elder Lopez, and I enjoy Mercedes, but as I thought about it more I realized it was because of something much better. As I now have over a year on the mission, I have been able to have a lot of experiences for the good or for bad. So I made an effort this transfer especially to always be animated no matter what happened. To always be content and satisfied at the end of the day with the work that we did no matter the results. It made a huge different in the work, making sure I was always happy and helping my companion be happy always as well. Not just being happy all the time, because there have been very few times in my mission where Ive been sad, but more being excited and with a lot of faith to go out and do the work good everyday. So I think we have been able to see good results with that mentality always. Another thing that I have been doing and continue working on, is forgetting about myself and serving others more, my companion, my district, the people in general. I was able to strengthen my testimony in that true happiness comes from serving the Lord and others. So I am doing really great right now and feel very grateful for what the mision is helping me to become and what I am able to do to help others while Im on my mission.
So for this next transfer I received the news that i will be training a newbie again here in Mercedes! I wasnt expecting it at all, but Im pretty excited! The first time I did it I barely had 6 months on the mission, but now I know I can do a lot better job, learning from the first time doing it and from my experience on the mission.
Right now, we´re preparing to have the baptism of Belén this next Friday! Wahoo! She is awesome and all ready to go! This past week in general was pretty normal, we just went to General Rodriguez last Friday to have divisions with the Zone Leaders which went great. Their area over there is huuge! So we did a lot of pedaling all day long. And because its so big they have to bike super fast all day long to get around. In Mercedes, we just stroll around nice and calmly in no hurry haha, but General Rodriguez was another story. But I made sure to keep up with him. Its amazing how fast these run down bikes they give us can go! The next day I was pretty sore but all good haha. Anyways, we continue finding a good amount of new investigators every week in our area, but no one that is looking to progress very well. So we´re on the search more than anything now.
I´ll let you all know about my new comp next week and how the first week went! Til next week!
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Elder Trent
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