¡Hola Todos!
This week was quite the experience, for several reasons! One, transfers came and I am now training a new Elder, Elder Allen, straight from the MTC. He is from Bountiful, Utah. This first week went by pretty smoothly with him. He came out with a lof of excitement and motivation to do mission work so things have been going pretty well with him in the first week. He knows very little Spanish right now, so thats mainly what were focusing with him right now, helping him to learn Spanish and obviously everything we do as missionary too. Im pretty excited to continue working with and helping him improve. Im just trying to help him participate during the day as much as he can so he can learn quickly. We were able to see a few great small miracles doing this, having him inviting people to be baptized and helping share the message of the restauration. There was also another change with the other Elders that were in our apartment as well. Elder Lundell is also training a new Elder from Spain! He is super cool and a stud already at missionary work.
Second, this week also we had planned the baptism for Belen, sadly things didnt go as planned. On friday, she was baptized, all good, everything went well, until Saturday. We found out Sunday morning when we called her to come to church that everything went bad on Saturday. Apparently she didnt feel as good as she thought she would or didnt have a great experience like she expected. And then her parents started to fill her head(they always supported her in getting baptized but didnt agree with the church) and so long story short, she doesnt want to continue with the church and didnt get confirmed on Sunday. it was pretty sad, but didnt affect on enough to get depresed or anything. We will continue to work with her to see if there is any hope and continue working diligently in our area. Things like this can happen so Im obviously a little sad from it, but just more determined to work hard.
But all is well here and Elder Allen and I are excited to continue working hard!
To end on a more happy note, because Elder Allen is learning to speak, he has said some funny things while talking to people, haha. We did a contact the other day and i asked him if he´d like to start it of. he was all for it and excited, but instead of say, "Hi, we´re missionaries" He said, "Hi, We´re millionaires". Now everyone is gonna think were rich haha, no im pretty sure the people got what he meant. But thats part of the experience of learning a language, you have to make mistakes.
Love you all!
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Elder Trent
mi nuevo compañero(now that you know spanish I can do that haha;) )
I am training him straight from the MTC. He name is Elder Allen from Bountiful, utah.
We did some service Saturday morning! The dark elder is also a new elder in the mission and is from Spain! Hes got an interesting accent but I understand him anyways. Hes super cool! So Elder Lundell and I are both training new people in the same pench, which is pretty cool!
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