Hello Family,
Happy New Year!!! I had a full week of teaching, walking and sweating!! Hope you enjoy my week in review…
Monday
We had a fun day of visiting members of our ward. We trying to visit a whole bunch of families and share a really fast 10 to 15 min short lesson, so we would be able to visit a bunch in one day. It was good, we got to more then we normally do but not as many as we hoped for… but thats ok!
Tuesday
We had the elders De bolivar with us and we had a zone meeting. It was really fun, we practiced door approaches and how to bring the spirit in to our conversations in the door way of an investigator. It was real good practice. Then we had a meal with a family in our ward thats had a son that is our age preparing to go on a mission. It’s super fun to hang out with him because he is so much like us! Then we did divisions and went contacting until it was time to go home.
Wednesday
We had to go in to town (Bahia Blanca) in the morning to pay our bills and it is always fun to go to the city! To see all the different things! After that we decided to contact some of the big buildings and in the park since we were there. It was hard because no body wanted to listen and it was discouraging. So we decided to just contact all the way to our next appointment in the next city and so we did! Then at night we had a ward meeting and we got to talk to everybody about our progress and our progressing investigators!
Thursday
We had a few citas and we got two more baptismal dates! I think we can get one baptized the other one has been in prison for quite some time and I don’t think we will get him cleared but we shall find out this week! Thursday was by far the hottest day I have seen so far in the 100’s! We were melting… while we were walking we were hoping to have the people watering there plants to spray us with there hoses so we can stay cool! Sadly nobody did.
Friday
We contacted all morning and during studies the sisters called us and asked if we could come to their area and give a blessing. So we did but they didn’t tell us that it was on the farthest corner of their area, about 1 1/12 hour each way walk. We had to go through the others elders area to get to theirs! So it was quite the trek to give this blessing but it was good then we came back to our area and it was time to go home for the night.
Saturday
New Years Eve…We had a family home evening with one of the new converts and it was super fun! We were not able to be out of the house any later then normal so we left and were home by 9 but …we bought brownies and strawberry juice which is a real treat. So we stayed up and watch the fire works for new year! It was super great! Except fireworks are illegal here, so every firework explosion we saw immediately had the police lights start to head in that direction and it was kind of like a big game of Pac man from our vantage point ! Haha it was super fun!
Sunday
We had a great Sunday some of our menos activos that we visited came and we had some great talks I really enjoyed it. Then we had a familt bring us dinner. It was a whole chicken that they had just killed in there backyard! Hahah it tasted great meat ahhh meat! Then we went to visit some families that weren't able to make it out to church and it was nice to bring the spirit into their homes and share love and a message.
Monday
We spent all of Monday at the stake center in a conference where the Mission President came and interviewed everybody. It was nice, we all played games and took pictures while we waiting because it took forever! I have zero idea why it took so long my interview was over in about 4 min but others took 45 min each! Then after we had a lesson from him then we went home. Long day but fun to see other elders and hang out with them.
I hope you have high goals for 2017 and that we all grow in the gospel, that is where it really counts!
Love you all,
Elder Vance
