3.23.15 - Santos Avanzad!

I can hardly believe how much we did this week, and how fast it went by. my gut is telling me this next week is going to go even faster.

I went on an exchange with Elder Fajardo. He's excellent. He said prior to being called on a mission he worked with a little government department doing research on new vaccines. His area has been struggling, but we found a family at 8:30 pm just before heading in for the night. based on his numbers I was just looking it they appear to have gone to church too, so i'll need to follow up with him on that.

I met a lot of drunk people this week. We met luis at about 1pm on saturday. He waved to us from the street so we went into the little drive way by his house. He was literally surrounded by bottles and cans of beer. there must have been more people with him the night before, because there were easily 30 bottles scattered across the ground. His family said we hadn't slept all night, and when we got over to him he must have come to an understanding of how drunk he must have looked because he started jumping around doing a little dance while he kicked all of the beer bottles into a pile. Luis tried to get us to tell him if there were any single women at our church and then got mad and offended when i said there probably weren't any he would like. Anywho, we did teach his nephew and a friend and it turned out alright.

The Las Palmas ward has the fire right now. We send around a little calendar around during elder quorum and someone from the ward goes out to teach with us basically every night. Brother Sanchez taught the first lesson with us last Saturday and he definitely felt the missionary fire, he got to bear his newly formed testimony of living prophets and he's pumped about it.

There were a few days of planning where we did weekly planning for the members of the zone. We wrote out all 23 people and then talked about how they're doing, what their next step of progression is, and what we're going to do so they make that step by the end of the month.

We're working a lot on using the scriptures while we teach still.

For people i'm not too close with i'm pretty quick to try to build them up and let them know they're doing a good job. For people i know well, i usually take for granted their knowledge of my praise for the good work they're doing. So i'll just talk about all the stuff we're working on, and just assume they know i think they're doing a good job. So if anyone has any helpful hints for how to avoid that i would love a troubleshooter. Thanks!

We taught about 20 lessons this week and the Recendez family let us take their coffee can with us when after we taught the word of wisdom this alst thursday. Soo, that was awesome.

I love you!
Stay Salty!

Elder Tyler Meidell