Hola Familia!!!
Wow so another week just flew by!! I cant believe that my
birthday, Christmas, new years, and my 1 year in the mission are all just right
around the corner! Time flies, don't blink.
So at the beginning of the week i had a really cool
experience. Now that I am a ZL we do the baptismal interviews for all of the
district leaders and on Monday i was able to interview a woman named L. and
she was baptized this Saturday. I think I was more nervous than her going in
but it went well and she was very prepared to be baptized. She has been
reviewing all the stuff before she came. Her and her parents were baptized
together on Saturday.
So we were in Casilda last Pday and I was able to hang out
with Elder Whitaker for the day on an exchange. It was cool to be able to talk
with him and stuff. It is a nice little city and their branch in the church is
growing really fast!!!
On Wednesday we had a leadership training for a ton of
missionaries here in Rosario. The missionaries who were supposed to go open the
church lost their keys and had to come sleep in our apartment on Tuesday night.
Then in the morning we had to go help set stuff up but it was really fun to see
a bunch of missionaries and I got to see Elder Topham for the first time which
was cool! Elder Eliosoff was actually his trainer.
I got the ruckus letters this week but I got 3 loads of them
at the same time! haha but I always love getting those and reading all of them.
I hope the newsletter comes soon! :)
So last week we contacted this couple named G. and
L. This week we were able to find them and teach them. They are active in
the Evangelical church but they accepted a baptism date for the 14th of Dec!
the only bad thing is that they would not be able to miss a Sunday at church
because our rule in the mission is twice in church before the baptism... they didn't come yesterday but its okay because we are gonna go find them again and
change the date to something more realistic. They are super awesome and they
even told us that they know they have not found everything yet in their other
church. I´ll keep you updated!!
So this week I have been trying to be a better listener... I
realized that I was doing a really bad job of listening or showing that I
am interested in what people are saying to me. I think I got to a point where I didn't need to focus to understand the Spanish and then I got a little too
comfortable. But I have been trying a lot harder to listen and use that to help
invite the spirit. I have been really trying to become a better person overall
but for a while I felt like I was so focused on my faults and errors that I couldn't focus on other people and I just felt crappy. I have been trying to
focus on the needs of others and its helping a lot!
I started reading the book The Miracle Of Forgiveness by
Spencer W Kimball. Its awesome!!! I have had my eyes opened to various things
this week and I am learning a lot! I have almost finished my reading of the BOM
in Spanish which will be kinda nice to finish. I have been focused on making my
goal of Dec. 13. It really is weird how I kinda like reading now. :P
This weekend we had stake conf. and it was pretty cool!
Their stake conference looked like a pretty typical Sunday in Utah but it was
really cool to see so many people together and stuff. We have a pretty good
stake, almost all of the ward are pretty established.
Well I'm sorry I feel like this was a short letter but we are
doing well and we are looking forward to having a few less things to do this
week so we can work a lot harder!! I love you guys and have a great week!!!
♥Elder Sisk
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Elder Topham
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| Elder Valladares and Elder Topham |
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| My Thanksgiving dinner |
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| Baptism that the ward had |
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| This is what happens when you get cut and don't know exactly what's in the first aid kit :) |
