Week 7, Sept 22

There is not a lot of time to write, because we´re heading to play soccer with the memebrs pretty soon. But! I´ll do my best. Also - sorry for not saying earlier where I was headed - I couldn´t resist.

So I´m in a small pueblo called Telde. It´s the tiniest unit in the islands, a branch with about 40 attending members on a good day. It is a first world country, but the water isn´t potable and the plumber only attached hot water to one of the two showers. (Literally every place to get water in the piso will scald your hand. EXCEPT my shower). We do all our own cooking - which means for me pancakes, fajitas, smoothies, scrambled eggs, and toast. My companion lives off cereal. We also walk EVERYWHERE. It is so cool, and I´m really quite glad we don´t have a car. Occassionally we´ll take a bus to one of the outskirts, but really we just pound the pavement all day long.

My companion/trainer is SUPER cool. His name is Elder Dyer, and he´s been out for a year.

New Area

New Companion

He´s been here for 3 months now, so he knows the area. He is a fantastic teacher and has lots of palabras de sabiduria for me - the chiefest of which is to always have a purpose. Much the way the Lord leads people to a specific destination (Nephi, Isreal, Jared) he only helps you out when you are headed someplace. If you contact by taking laps, you´ll get discouraged, tired, and won´t have any success. If you contact on the way to a Menos Activo who may or may not be there, you´ll see miracles - like the three new investigators we´ve gotten in three days by contacting alone. Isn´t he awesome? Shorter than me, and knows his scriptures very well.

We`re working on organizing basically the entire piso - all our papers, extra info, dates, so that we can be more effective users of the Lord´s time.  He has been working super hard to get this place back on the upward climb, and I am so excited to help!

We have two investigators with baptismal dates - a married couple named Will and Mercedez. They are super cool, and she insists on making us dessert every time we show up. They love the gospel and love learning about Christ - and even better they love church and have friends!

Alrighty, the rest will have to wait until I´m not running from a haircut to a soccer game (hence, next week).

Suffice it to say: I LOVE IT HERE. I love my companion. I love my investigators, I love my rama, I love the members, I love my investigators, I love contacting, and I love walking everywhere. The Obra Missional is the best thing ever!!

Elder Maxfield