1/27/13
Time flies past so quickly, and in the mission it's like a time warp. Elder Perez the other spanish elder serving here in the area, is going home at the same time in August, and we were talking about how we don't have any time left at all. 4 transfers after this one, and then that's it. It's crazy to think about it, but I really am getting sucked into this time warp which we call the last 6 months. I was talking to an Elder named Elder Lambdin around April of last year and he said the same thing, he was talking about how he was going home in September and how he has like no time left at all, and then next thing that I knew... he went home. It's been a great mission so far, now lets make the last 6 months totally awesome.
This week we had great success, and we nearly (barely almost) made the standards of excellence for the mission. I realized Elder Phillips and I need to work harder on asking for information and a return appointment from people while we contact on the street, and we also need to work on our teaching skills in Spanish.
We had a chance this week to go with our investigator Luis (finally) to a courthouse to receive his license to be married to his wife, in order to be baptized. We went to the Palo Alto courthouse and it didn't work out, because Luis and Cecilia live in East Palo Alto (which is another city) and Palo Alto only does residents stuff. So we found out we had to go to Redwood City to do it, so Luis said we have to do it another day. We showed up to his house the next day and he wasn't there unfortunately. We will still keep trying.
Our investigator Oscar and his member wife Sylvia and doing really well, Oscar wants to be baptized pretty bad, and quite honestly is ready, but he has a pending divorce in Chile that needs to go through. We had dinner with him this past week, and it was really good. I enjoy being them, they have a lot of great stories to tell.
We had Elder Perez with us for 2 or 3 days this week as a trio, his companion was down with President Watkins because he needed to receive knee surgery. His new companions name is Elder Harouny and he's from Utah. That was fun to be in a trio for a few days, we definitely covered a lot of ground while we were all together.
The biggest moment of the week for sure was Saturday. Saturday Elder Phillips went into Elder Perez area with him, and Elder Olsen (one of the travelling assistants to the president) came with me for training and things like this. Elder Olsen is from Utah/ New Jersey and he's Dominican. He's a cool guy. He came into the area to show us how to contact more efficiently for spanish people, and how to invite to meet with us and stuff. He did a lot of training and roleplaying with me, and it really helped a lot. That day we got 12 addresses, and 11 of those said to come back. We got 2 new investigators that day, and it was awesome. It showed me really how to talk to people and invite people in this culture, since i'm not used to this culture in missionary work. Elder Olsen is awesome.
I really don't know what to say besides we really had a really great week this week, we are going to see great things in the next 5 weeks, and I am determined to leave this area better than I found it.
Well have a great week everyone
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