August 31, 2015
So this week 31 missionaries left the field and
only 7 arrived. 28 went home and 3 went to the mission home to be trained as
secretaries. So our zone and another zone were put together to form a mega zona
haha. So now our zone went from 14 missionaries to 27 missionaries!. So my new
companion is Elder Freeman. And he’s going home in 4 weeks. So that means I’ll
be sending another one home! So I’ll still have 2 more companions! He’s going home early to see his brother’s
wedding or something like that. Anyways, the zone leaders area here was
whitewashed and will now be a district leader area so I’m being transferred to
Tancredo Neves which is pretty close by. (Hopefully the house is better haha)
So I’m pretty excited to be able to get to know a new area. Elder Freeman as
well is being transferred there so we’ll have to get to know the area
together.
So last week we started an
activity in the area going to member’s houses with our bishop’s counselor
and asking them if we could teach their neighbors and such, and we got to know a
couple last week, A and F. We taught them for the first time and told them
about the importance of having faith in Jesus Christ and following Him (using
Ether 12). F said he really needed to follow God and do what’s right. 2 weeks
later after lots of ups and downs they were baptized. F will be a great help in
the church. He already went on visits with us before his baptism testifying to
everyone about the truthfulness of the church and saying how he was going to be
baptized Sunday. Usually we don’t think about taking investigators with us to
go on visits or splits (I don’t know what it’s called anymore haha), but he
really helped bring the Spirit and help other investigators. So I’ll send the
pictures of their baptism.
So yesterday I was sleeping in
another house because Elder Vasquez went to the mission home yesterday so I was
in a trio with our district leader. We were talking a little bit this morning
about how sometimes people set low goals so that they can feel better about
themselves knowing that they will reach their goal. For example, a
companionship that sets a goal to baptize 4 people in 6 weeks maybe will reach
their goal, and if they do they will be excited that they reached their
predetermined amount of success. Perhaps they didn’t want to set a goal to
baptize 30 people because they were afraid they would fail. However, if the
companionship had set a goal of 30 and only baptized 15, they would have baptized
3 times as many people. The goal has to be high, because it’s the performance
and outcome that matter, not just the satisfaction of reaching a humble
achievable goal. The higher our goals in life, the harder we will work to get
there, and the more success we will have in the end.
I hope you guys have a good
week! Sounds like Cole is busy with school and Dad’s having lots of work to do
these days. Hope all is well! Now I will be a little bit further from the
airport so that’s good, haha. Hope you guys have a good week! Love you guys!
-Elder Udy
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